According to Indian media reports, Delhi, India's second-largest city, reported 1,845 rape cases in the last year alone, an average of more than 5 per day, and this is only the data counted by the police. Therefore, the local media has long lost interest in similar news, and only some bizarre sexual assault-related incidents can gain public attention, such as the following one.
Earlier last week, police in the city of Harinagar, west of Delhi, received a police alert from a woman who claimed she had been raped by two strange men around 3 a.m.; police later took her to a nearby hospital upon arrival and a medical examination confirmed she had indeed been sexually assaulted. However, the woman described that she was sexually assaulted in turn in the "process of traveling", at this time more than ten kilometers from the first crime site, which made the police handling the case puzzled.
According to the woman's description, she had some arguments with her husband that night and ran away from home alone around 2:40 a.m. She then saw two men approaching in a car on the road, and the man began to talk to her with ill will; and finally in this half-coerced and half-forced state, the woman got into the car and asked the two to take her to a nearby location. Unexpectedly, shortly after getting on the bus, the two men became fierce, began to tear their clothes and take turns sexually assaulting the women. The surveillance video collected by the police also confirmed this: at 3 a.m., the surveillance filmed her sitting in a car, and at 4:25 a.m. she was thrown out of the car, and she had actually traveled more than ten kilometers before and after.
So it is speculated that the two people should be one person driving slowly, and the other person committed the crime, and it is alternate, which also explains why the place where the woman was thrown out of the car is so far from the scene of the crime. The surveillance footage provided strong evidence for the case to be solved, and less than a day later, the police arrested two suspects based on the license plate number, they were 29-year-old Vinnett and 20-year-old Sagar; the two confessed that they had just finished their birthday party that night, and when they saw the woman on the road, they immediately tried to trick her into the car and rape her, and they have now been arrested and prosecuted.
Some relevant people told the media that whether it is in India's cities or villages, "women walking alone on the road" at any time is a dangerous thing. In many of the news reported, it can be seen that although it is daytime and crowded on the side of the road, there will be criminals who will target and coerce sexual assault, and many victims of cases are not as lucky as in this case, due to the lack of surveillance video, the police only file a case and the criminals have not been arrested.
It is also worth mentioning that one of the two criminals in this case carries 4 criminal records and 1 is robbery, and he has not been interrogated before. Police said the victim's family is more noteworthy than a stranger's, because in almost 98 percent of the cases, the alleged rapist is usually the victim's friend, neighbor, family, partner or acquaintance; some people also commented: "All the root causes are unequal gender systems and the punishment of the law is too light!" Many rape offenders can be released on bail quickly for only money, making crime almost cost-effective. ”