According to the Times of India and other media reports, a shocking case occurred in the Indian state of Maharashtra, where a 16-year-old girl was raped by 400 people in a six-month period, including even the girl's biological father and two policemen. Many media outlets called it "the most tragic rape case in India's history."
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According to the Maharashtra police to the Indian media, the 16-year-old girl, after being rescued to the police station, described the tragedy that happened to her: she was married by her father in an arranged marriage two years after her mother's death, after which she lived in her husband's family for more than a year and was repeatedly harassed by her father-in-law. The girl had to return to her home at the beginning of the year, but her biological father also sexually assaulted her, and she had to leave the house to work, first by being sexually assaulted by two men who claimed to be able to introduce her to work, and then when she begged at the bus stop, three more men forced her to engage in sexual work and suffered multiple rapes. The girl once ran to a police station to report the crime, but the police not only did not arrest the criminal, but a policeman sexually assaulted her.
According to media reports, the teenage girl said she had been sexually assaulted by a total of 400 men in 6 months, and she was now two months pregnant. The head of India's Child Welfare Commission said the number of allegations against adolescent girls was too large to verify one by one, but at least 25 perpetrators, including two police officers, were currently able to identify. The police officially opened the case on November 8, and the Indian media and the public also paid close attention to it. Six men have been arrested, including the girl's father, her previously illegal husband and a pimp. The case is still under further investigation. Police said all offenders will be punished for violating the relevant provisions of India's Child Marriage Prohibition Act, the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act and the Penal Code.
According to official Indian figures, there were more than 28,000 reports of rape against women in 2020, about every 18 minutes.