Tourist pulled off bus in Orissa, gang-raped

ew Delhi: A 27-year-old tourist visiting Orissa's famous Konark temple was allegedly pulled off a crowded bus by four men, taken to an isolated spot and gang-raped.

The incident occurred on Sunday, barely 10 km from the Sun Temple. The accused - reportedly loan recovery agents of a finance company - followed the tourist while she boarded a bus, dragged her out and made her board another bus before gang-raping her on the Puri-Konark road stretch.

Incidentally, a person saw the accused taking the victim to the cashew plantation and informed the Konark police station that he suspected foul play. The police later found the woman unconscious in the bus.

DIG (Bhubaneshwar), Y B Khurania, told CNN-IBN a case of rape has been registered. A case of gang-rape has been registered. The accused have been arrested and will be produced in court tomorrow. The victim has undergone medical examination, is being counselled and being taken care of. The victim is a local, she's a resident of Puri. She was travelling to the Konark temple when two men took her off the bus and took her to a cashew plantation where she was raped. Two other men joined her. Passengers did not protest but one person who saw the girl being taken informed the police, he said.

All the accused - identified as Santosh Sahu, Prakash Pradhan, Gourang Pradhan and R Das - were arrested on Monday.

Shockingly, none of her co-passengers, the bus driver or the conductor came to her rescue when the accused dragged her out. News reports suggest the woman was traveling with her 60-year-old uncle T Nanda, the only one who tried to save her.

Police say the accused persons had seen the two at Konark and even spoken to the victim. When Nanda and the woman boarded a bus to return to Puri, two of the accused followed them on board, while the other two followed on a bike.

According to her statement, the accused used obscene language when they first met her at the temple site.

The Statesman reports the victim had been raped at two separate spots and the accused apprehended because Konark police rushed to one of these spots and was able to catch one of the accused.

Medical examination of the victim confirmed rape. However, the accused say that it was not a case of rape as the victim had consented to the act.

Are white female tourists targeted in India?

UK JOURNALIST raped by a guesthouse owner; US tourist molested at Pushkar, Rajasthan; Japanese student molested; Swiss tourist raped, scream out the headlines in the national and local press. What is happening to India after all? The scriptures declare Atithi Devo Bhava or the guest is God. The foreign tourists are our guests. But the ground reality tells a different story. Foreigners are no longer treated as guests. They are an easy prey to human predators. What puzzles me is the scant concern shown to these shameful almost-daily occurrences by those whose duty is to guard the tourists against such things: the government, tourism department, hoteliers, guest-house owners, taxi drivers, parking lot attendants, the moralists, temple priests, the socialites - in short, everybody is indifferent to this important issue. Recently a British tourist was raped in Goa. But the government explained that it was just an isolated incident. Well, it could be so, but how many such incidents would awaken us to the gravity of this serious issue? Molesting, ill-treating, harassing, humiliating, insulting, violating the modesty, stealing the purse and documents, cheating, deceiving and fooling tourists, exploiting their trust and vulnerability, murdering them, etc, constitute a dangerous trend that sends negative signals to the outside world.

I was in Kabul, Afghanistan, in the 1970s and my room-mate was a beautiful, young American girl. She was also a teacher in Kabul University. During the winter vacation (as summer vacation there is not that long or important), But I dont feel proud when I recall her words now. Then why confine ourselves to foreigners alone? The Indian women are treated no better. Rape of grown up women or small girls, oral sex or any act of perverted mentality has been on the rise and is being highlighted in the media. The lines from a letter to the editor of a newspaper by one Deepti of Lucknow, aptly expresses the genuine anguish of a woman; it speaks for all Indian women: Women are not safe anywhere- in the womb, in their homes, with family, with in-laws, in prison, on the streets or public places. All of us understand this and nobody is so inane as not to see this, realise its consequence; the writing is on the wall. But what do we do next? Are we serious enough to face this scourge or would we prefer to look the other way?

Of course we prefer to look the other way and pretend that nothing has happened. The law will take its own course, we argue. Why should we bother? After all it is not our doing; not our responsibility. But this cannot go on for a long time. This attitude of the Indian society will take its toll. The county will lose its fine cultural image and the foundation of its excellent ancient traditions will erode.
In the long run, tourism will suffer and the country will lose revenue. The efforts of the ministry concerned to promote tourism will be negated. It will not be able to promote India as a country inhabited by a hospitable and friendly people. Indians abroad will be looked down upon by the people of the host country and labelled barbarians, boors and bullies. Indians wont be able to hold their head high abroad with national pride because of the crime committed by a few of their fellow countrymen back home in India against foreign tourists. It is high time punishment for crime against foreigner tourists was reviewed and made more stringent. The punishment should be severe enough to instil fear into the perpetrators of these shameful acts. Some poster campaign or some steps for educating the people generally involved in such shameful acts against the foreign tourists should be undertaken. There is no dearth of means when there is an end in view. There are resources but only the will to act is absent. But things are being delayed which naturally causes concern in the minds of the right-thinking people.

Hindustan a nation of rapists


Dubai: Nine out of 10 Indian women are "raped at some point in their married life". Statistical fact? No.

But Indian actor Irrfan Khan said this when tabloid! asked him to comment on the fact that Bollywood star Shiney Ahuja is in police custody on a charge of raping his 18-year-old housemaid.

"...I think 90 per cent of married Indian women are raped at some point in their married life. You know what I mean," Khan said.

Is India a nation of rapists? Well, this statement would have the world believe so.

According to a 2001 census in India, there were 220,389,861 married couples in the country.

Mrinaltai Gore, a well-known social worker from Mumbai, placed things in perspective for Gulf News.

"Ninety per cent! I don't think there is anything like that happening in India," she said.

However, Gore, 80, who has been helping women in India find a voice for nearly 60 years, agreed that a problem does exist.

"In our country, where there is limited social freedom for interaction between men and women, marriage is the path most couples take for conjugal relations.

"It is a fact not spoken about but something men and women understand. In cases of forced marriages, yes rape takes place, but it is not 90 per cent."

Instead, Gore placed the figure at 10 per cent.

"India has changed over the decades ...women have a better idea of their rights, but there are those who have still not grasped the idea that marriage does not mean spending the rest of their lives doing their husband's bidding," she said.

A total of 185,312 crimes against women were reported in India in 2007, up from 164,765 in 2006. As per India's National Family Health Survey between 2005 and 2006 that covered 28,139 married women, more than one third reported suffering physical violence at the hands of their husbands. Of this, 7.7 per cent reported sexual abuse, too.

Domestic violence has always been an issue in the country with a population of over a billion, with a focus on bride burning and torture.

A recent Reuters report quoting an Indian government survey stated that "54 per cent of women, against 51 per cent of men, say wife-beating is justified in some circumstances".

Audrey D'Mello, deputy director of the Legal Centre at Majlis, a non-governmental legal aid body based in Mumbai that utilises the judiciary and policy-level intervention to champion women's rights, said that the statement by the Indian actor was unfortunate and conveyed the wrong image of India to a world audience.

She said: "He [Khan] has worked with our centre and is quite sensitive and aware. We would not, as a body react to the statement, as we work within the judiciary and rather follow that path to help women."

D'Mello added that "90 per cent" is a general figure that people use in statements, but not a "pure statistic".

On the issue of marital rape, she said the "state does not recognise it as an offence.

"In 2006 the Domestic Violence Act came into force that covers all forms of violence in domestic relationships, including forced intercourse. But it is difficult to prove. Only when it is a separated couple can a criminal case be filed."

D'Mello said that this was the reason there are no clear statistics on marital rape, especially as it is highly under-reported.

"Women have to stand in front of a magistrate court, which also tries other petty criminal offences, and talk about the abuse - an extremely humiliating experience, so women do not report it."

She said that the difficulty in proving marital rape or adultery, even when it is blatant, forces them to suffer in silence.

"It is an issue in the community - when we speak to the women they do tell us about it. The option to encourage women to report would be perhaps an in-camera trial."

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