CENTRAL NEWS
A 15-year-old was gang raped by 5 men in the central Khunti region in the state of Jharkhand in India. The girl was returning from a local fair and was attacked on her way home from the event, the police reported on Tuesday.
In her police statement, the girl detailed that she was returning from a fair 12-km from her village with 5 of her friends when a group of men on motorbikes approached them. While her friends managed to flee, the 15-year-old was cornered by the men and gang-raped. Acting after over three hours since the incident, the local police carried out several raids before ending the search.
Rape is the fourth most common crime against women in India. More well-known of these cases are the Nirbhaya rape case (2012), Unnao rape case (2017), Kathaua rape case (2018) and the Hyderabad rape-murder case (2019) which expose the grim reality of sexual crimes committed against women in India.
According to the 2019 annual report of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), 32033 rape cases were registered across the country, or an average of 88 cases daily. A survey by Thomas Reuters Foundation in 2018 ranked India as the most dangerous country for women.
