Indian woman is raped a second time by the same men

Indian woman is raped a second time by the same men

Indian police said on Tuesday (July 19) three out of five men who raped a 20-year-old woman the second time round have been detained. br br The three men are also due to be in court on Wednesday (July 20), police said, while the victim's father said his daughter was determined to pursue the case despite the state's failure to protect her. br br Prosecutors accuse the men of raping the woman, a 20-year-old member of the lower-caste Dalit community, in the north Indian city of Rohtak last week. br br The men include two who were arrested for raping her in 2013 and currently out on bail as the case edged its way through India's creaking legal system, police said, while the third was also accused of the earlier attack. br br The accused took the girl from outside the college and raped her last week. She was later found unconscious in bushes in Sukhpura Chowk locality and rushed to a government hospital. br br "I was coming out of the college. These five accused, two were outside and three were inside the car. I was scared of seeing them. They took me in the car," said the victim. br br The family have told Indian media that the men had threatened to rape her again as "punishment" for not agreeing to an out-of-court settlement. br br "These five accused had raped her in 2013 also. They gang raped and threatened her. Among the five, only two were arrested and the rest three are out. We even went to the high court to issue summons to them. We left Bhiwani out of fear," the victim's brother said. br br Local police said they arrested three suspects while two others were still not identified. br br "Three accused have been rounded up and interrogation is still going on. Some contradictory facts have come to our knowledge and we are trying to verify those facts and on those facts further action will be taken in this case," said Pushpa Khatri, the superintendent of police in Rohtak. br br Sexual violence against women is a highly sensitive issue in India, where the fatal gang-rape of a student on a bus in New Delhi in 2012 sparked deep soul-searching about entrenched violence against women and the failure of authorities to protect them. br br India has enacted tougher jail sentences for rapists and promised to try those accused through "fast-track" courts but rape, acid attacks and domestic violence remain common. br br An inefficient and underfunded judicial system, particularly outside big cities, and a patriarchal society also mean many victims are scared to come forward and when they do prosecutions move slowly, if at all. br br Members of the Dalit community, who occupy the lowest-rung of India's centuries-old social hierarchy, can find it particularly difficult to seek justice because of their poor economic status. br br The three accused in the Rohtak case will appear in court on Wednesday where police will ask for them to be remanded in custody so they can continue their interrogations, said Sanjay Kumar, Rohtak police inspector general.


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