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13th August 2005, 19:49
Six held over gang rape in Delhi
By Ayanjit Sen
BBC News, Delhi
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Police in the Indian capital, Delhi, say six men have been arrested on charges of raping a 16-year-old girl in the early hours of Thursday.
Officers said the teenager was lured into a bus in the Najafgarh area.
The high rates of rape have raised great concern among the citizens of Delhi, with some now demanding the death penalty be imposed.
This is the third case of a gang rape in a vehicle in the capital in the past few months.
Police say an acquaintance of the 16-year-old lured her into the bus to be raped by him and five others.
She had been missing from home since Wednesday, said police, who had responded to an anonymous call.
The accused appeared in court on Thursday and were remanded in police custody for two days.
Lengthy process
In other recent incidents in Delhi, a university student was abducted by four men and assaulted in May while another woman was gang raped last month.
Junior Home Minister S Reghupathy has said in parliament that more than 550 cases of rape were registered in the capital last year.
He said most were committed by people known to the victim.
Women's groups say India's poor rate of conviction and lengthy trial process deter many rape victims from coming forward to testify, especially because they fear social discrimination.
In 2003, a Swiss diplomat was raped in her car after attending a film festival.
On the same night, an Indian woman filmmaker suffered head injuries as she fought off attackers.
Those attacks came soon after the alleged rape of a woman by members of the presidential bodyguard.
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If this had happened in Pakistan the western media would be banging on about it as if their life depended on it.
By Ayanjit Sen
BBC News, Delhi
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/shared/img/999999.gif
Police in the Indian capital, Delhi, say six men have been arrested on charges of raping a 16-year-old girl in the early hours of Thursday.
Officers said the teenager was lured into a bus in the Najafgarh area.
The high rates of rape have raised great concern among the citizens of Delhi, with some now demanding the death penalty be imposed.
This is the third case of a gang rape in a vehicle in the capital in the past few months.
Police say an acquaintance of the 16-year-old lured her into the bus to be raped by him and five others.
She had been missing from home since Wednesday, said police, who had responded to an anonymous call.
The accused appeared in court on Thursday and were remanded in police custody for two days.
Lengthy process
In other recent incidents in Delhi, a university student was abducted by four men and assaulted in May while another woman was gang raped last month.
Junior Home Minister S Reghupathy has said in parliament that more than 550 cases of rape were registered in the capital last year.
He said most were committed by people known to the victim.
Women's groups say India's poor rate of conviction and lengthy trial process deter many rape victims from coming forward to testify, especially because they fear social discrimination.
In 2003, a Swiss diplomat was raped in her car after attending a film festival.
On the same night, an Indian woman filmmaker suffered head injuries as she fought off attackers.
Those attacks came soon after the alleged rape of a woman by members of the presidential bodyguard.
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If this had happened in Pakistan the western media would be banging on about it as if their life depended on it.