A Bombay policeman allegedly raped a girl in broad daylight (via India Uncut):
A quiet evening, sitting by the sea at Marine Drive turned into a nightmare for a 17-year-old girl. Priya Ravi (name changed), a resident of Chembur, was just idling at the promenade along with three male friends last evening, when constable Sunil More… approached them… he demanded that they come to the police chowky… Inside, he bolted the door and allegedly raped her…More… was completely nonchalant and allegedly said, “Jo ukhad sakte ho, ukhad lo (do whatever you want)…” According to Kayum Shaikh who was present at the spot, “The constable was drunk and came out of the chowky adjusting his belt. He was aggressive and appeared completely unconcerned with what had just happened.” [Mid-Day]
Police sources said More always got away with rude behaviour and drinking on duty because his brother-in-law, a police inspector in the Crime Branch, shielded him. [Express]
The cop’s been fired and charged with a crime, but only because of public outrage. Says Amit Varma:
I’m just surprised that the boys who were with that girl let the policeman take her inside that chowky. Perhaps they were young and naive. In time, they will learn that the typical Indian policeman is like this: undereducated, overworked, underpaid, sexually repressed, resentful of richer people, and drunk on power. It is a potent combination.
An even worse incident happened in Pakistan:
Ms Bhatti, a first-year college student, said she was abducted from Sialkot, an industrial city south-east of the capital, last month and held in captivity for several days. She said she was gang-raped repeatedly by her abductors for three weeks. Ms Bhatti said she managed to escape and reached a police station to report the crime. But two of the policemen on duty also raped her, she said. [BBC]
Think about the retrograde psychology here: she’s no longer pure in society’s eyes, therefore no harm would befall them if they violated her again.
… [Nazish Bhatti] threatened yesterday to set herself on fire in front of parliament if the officers were not charged. [Herald]
Yes Ms Bhatti’s case is worse.
amazingly, you don’t have anything about the shiv sena’s reaction, in an editorial in saamna, where they blame the way girls dress for incidents such as this. there are a couple of insightful articles in outlook. and this happened a while ago. finally, everything i have read said that there were three girls, not a girl and ‘her brothers’ – they had apparently gone to marine drive after checking out colleges for admission. and finally, to whoever said ‘i’m surprised they .. let her go in’… do you think a sixteen-year old girls (or girls, or boys) from a lower-middle-class family would dare to resist a policeman’s request? naiive, to say the least.
Quoting the Shiv Sena on gender is like quoting Rush Limbaugh on drug abuse: an idiot’s tale, sound and fury signifying nothing. I wouldn’t dignify it with comment.
Most coverage I’ve seen mentions a group including male friends. ‘Her brothers’ isn’t a phrase used anywhere in this post.
Is the victim lower middle class? The coverage I’ve seen doesn’t specify. I’ve been on a Bombay beach late at night, harassed by cops, and seen upper middle class kids pull it off by casting attitude.
Shiv Sena people are complete retards…
see this
The standards at the Times have fallen quite a bite this past year. Turning into a British tabloid type paper.
so, judging from the image, this dick actually posed for a photo…
Al Mujahid: so what? does a prize come with that? what a meaningless comment
If anyone should be set on fire, it’s the rapists.
‘Police hai, hai!’
The incident has left a black mark on the Mumbai police force.
I can’t wait for the day the No-Contact Jacket enters the marketplace. Oooo, if I ever get my hands on this puppy I’m going parading on Marine Drive with nothing on but the jacket and my chaddis, auto-electrocution be dammned!
Perhaps the Shiv Sena would be interested in some wholesale purchases since holding men accountable for their own actions is waaay too difficult…
Male brutality is a fact of life. That’s what the propoganda-spewing Saamna is saying with these words:
You blame the police – who in this case were the perpetrators, you blame the so-called culture police which makes you think that a woman in jeans is loose and asking for it. Blame those priests who run a respected college in Bombay and tell their female students: If you dress up like this how can we concentrate?
A rape is a rape is a rape. There are no two ways about it. Even if a woman is walking about in the nude nobody has the right to touch her.
These filthy animals are not just spewing sexism. It’s classism too. Pramod Navalkar is quoted as saying:
It’s a free country Mr. Navalkar. People can ‘venture’ out to Chowpatty even if they’re from Vasai. Who the hell are you? Instead of condemning the rape this is what these self appointed leaders have to say? Not the fact that policeman in question benefitted from favouritism to get his job in the first place?
These people make me sick to the bone. And I really mean it when I sing like the great man
And I hope that you die And your death’ll come soon I will follow your casket In the pale afternoon And I’ll watch while you’re lowered Down to your deathbed And I’ll stand o’er your grave ‘Til I’m sure that you’re dead
I just found this article about a woman who was raped, the rapist was found guilty, AND then he had the audacity to propose to her during his sentencing.
I mean, I don’t get it. I understand the legal systems are different and victims/accused have the opportunity to talk to one another in court, but this is just absurd. Could you imagine the person who goued out your eye, raped you, and made you go through four facial surgeries has the BALLS to ask you to marry him??
sorry, im just disgusted, appalled, and angry that the victim was victimized again, in public, by the same filthy person.
It’s the bullshit that’s churned out day after day by Bollywood that makes are sensibilites so deplorable. Case in a point: Anil Kapoor and Meenakshi Seshadri, no Juhi Chawla starrer Benaam Badshah. The IMDB summary saves me the trouble of typing this:
Garbage, just garbage. Centuries of sexism passed along generations. This, my friends, is our culture – where women have to “accept their fate.” Where the girl child may get a free education, but is called “paraya dhan” and sold off to produce babies. Littly baby-blue wearing babies. Not baby-pink. What a fucking disgrace.
And what happened to that cop who raped a girl on Marine Drive? I say chop off his pecker and feed it to the nuts (that’s you Thackeray, Nawalkar and co.) disguised as a veggie dish.
What you say is right Potty Master. That’s why I get pissed off when I hear “desis” dissing Americans for being racist or discriminatory. Hell man, try India on for size. You’ll be dying to return to the wide open arms of Whitey.