Although all walks of life in India continue to boast about India's progress, to this day, the country still has the remnants of the spurned caste system, and the idea of "male superiority over female inferiority" continues to damage the rights and interests of the majority of Indian women. A recent horrific case in India reinforces this.
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According to the latest reports from foreign media, a few days ago, there was a murder case against women in Uttar Pradesh, India, and the victims were two women, one of whom was only 16 years old, and the other victim was more than half a hundred years old, and the two were aunts and nephews. Judging from the police's description of the scene of the crime, the two victims were stripped of their clothes and lying on the floor in a semi-naked state, and both had signs of being violated by multiple people in turn.
For underage girls and elderly people, the murderer can be said to have lost his conscience, but the murderer does not stop there. Police at the scene said that the two victims were devastated, their whole bodies were scratched over and over again by the killer with sharp weapons, "no good skin", "the throat was cut", and the blood of both even soaked the floor. This kind of abuse of the corpse caused serious discomfort to the forensic doctor in charge of the examination.
The reporter said that the 50-year-old victim had a son who worked outside the home for many years, and because he did not trust his old mother, he asked his 16-year-old sister, one of the victims in this case, to come to take care of his mother, and almost every day he had to call his mother to confirm that he was safe. However, two days before the crime, the victim's phone had not been answered, which made the son quite worried, so he asked the neighbors to check it out, and only then did he find the murder.
The police investigation revealed more crimes afterwards, most likely an "acquaintance crime". The police said that the doors and windows of the crime scene were intact and there was no trace of destruction, which ruled out the possibility that the murderer had entered the house by violent means; and the 4 cups of unfinished water and the leftover fruit plate on the coffee table at the scene showed that the victim had repaid the murderer, which basically showed that the victim was likely to know the murderer. However, how could the two victims have expected that someone would have done such a cruel thing? The police deduced that there were probably 4 murderers, who used the victim's trust to enter the house and even chatted with the victim for a while, and after confirming that there was no one else in the family, they began to vent their bestiality.
(Infographic: Women's Campaign against Domestic Violence in India)
The problems reflected in this case are just the tip of the iceberg of the current situation of women in India. According to data released by India's National Crime Archives Bureau, India has accepted about 30,000 cases of female assault in one year, which translates to almost every 15 minutes that an Indian woman reports a crime for being violated, and 90% of them are "acquaintances". You know, in Indian society, in order to avoid "damaging the reputation of the family", the fact that women are violated is often suppressed by the victim's family, so the actual case of female assault in India every year is likely to be many times the number of 30,000.
(Infographic: Women's Advocacy Activities in India)
What has the Indian government done in such a dire situation? In fact, in the field of women's rights protection, they have done little worthwhile in recent years. Ranjit Sinha, a former "chief" of India's Central Bureau of Investigation, publicly shouted to women: "Rape is like an illegal gamble, and since we can't stop it, we should enjoy it." The fact that senior officials dare to make such remarks shows what kind of customs are within Indian society, and also shows from another perspective that similar cases will occur in India in the future, and vulnerable Indian women will also suffer pressure from society and families.
(Editor: mwl)