Child rape is on the rise in India
The girl will be 9 to 11 years old. His dismembered body was recently recovered from a bush near a playground in Surat, Gujarat. There were 6 marks of injuries on his body.
The doctor who investigated the autopsy thought the girl had been tortured for a week. The police also think that the girl has been detained and brutally tortured.
But the police could not find out the identity of the girl even ten days after receiving the body. They could not find any solution even after searching the files of 6000 missing children in Gujarat.
The BBC's Sautik Biswas in Delhi says there is a growing trend in India to use rape as a weapon to bring the strong to power over the weak. In a society where class discrimination and male-dominated violence are on the rise, many see the rising incidence of rape as a natural consequence.
India has a lower number of women than men mainly due to female feticide. For every 100 girls born, 112 boys are born. Due to this, the number of women in India is about 63 million less than usual.
Male admitted country
Many believe that sexual abuse of women is on the rise due to the unusually high number of men.
The Indian state of Haryana has the worst ratio of women to men. And this state also has the highest number of mass rapes.
In January alone, a 50-year-old man was arrested for raping a 10-year-old girl, a 15-year-old boy for raping a three-and-a-half-year-old child, and two men for raping a 20-year-old married woman; The mutilated body of a girl child was found on the farmland. These incidents have been registered in the police. Many such incidents do not come to the notice of the police.
The killing of an eight-year-old girl belonging to a Muslim nomadic community in Indian-administered Kashmir by holding her captive in a temple and raping her day after day has shocked the whole of India. It is said that rapes and killings were carried out to ensure that Muslim nomads did not come to their areas to graze goats.
Many people have also publicly supported this fact. Two BJP ministers in the state government have joined a rally in support of the accused. In the face of criticism, however, they were forced to resign later.
A bank manager in the state of Kerala posted on Facebook in support of the rape and murder in Kashmir - "If it weren't for that, the girl would have grown up and turned out to be a man-bomb against India." He was, however, dismissed.
Under pressure, Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted, "Our daughters will get justice."
Many are saying that his assurance is empty.
Politicians of other parties are not able to show anything exceptional. Mulayam Singh Yadav, leader of the Samajwadi Party, a major party in Uttar Pradesh, was convicted of raping a female journalist in 2014. "Men make mistakes. That's why they can't be hanged. We will change anti-rape laws," he said.
Women have to adapt to the social reality of India: if you want to protect yourself, dress properly, don't go out without a male partner, or stay indoors.
The biggest fear is that more children are being targeted now. According to official statistics, the number of child rapes has doubled between 2012 and 2016.
40 percent of the rape victims in the country are children.
Protests have erupted across India since the Jammu incident
People's indifference
Rape is not just a problem in India, but the patriarchal social system and the abnormal sex ratio are worse here.
Besides, there is indifference of people. Women's rights or security is never an electoral issue in India.
But the hope is that more and more rape cases are coming in the news. The case is more.
But it is disappointing that India's judiciary is still vulnerable to political pressure. In many cases, rapists are being released.
Defendants are still convicted in only one in four rape cases in India.
