A 16-year-old girl in India was found hanging on
Christmas day after apparently taking her life. She
had been kidnapped and gang-raped as punishment
for her mother winning a local election. She went to
the police with her mother to report the matter but
she wasn't taken seriously. Feeling humiliated and
traumatised, she took her own life. It was only after
her death that police swung into action and arrested
two suspects.
The Socialist Party candidate in Mirzapur, Arvind
Sen, said that the girl was gang-raped to avenge the
poll defeat, allegedly by relatives of a losing
candidate.
Her mother was elected for the local government
faction, the block development council, in the
Mirzapur district of north-east India.
However, a senior police officer told said that a
post-mortem report did not find signs of rape.
The latest incident is the latest high-profile case to
spotlight women's safety in India in recent years.
Two construction workers were arrested for the rape
of a woman on the premises of tech giant, Infosys.
The men, aged in their 20s, filmed the alleged
assault, which occurred on Sunday at one of the IT
firm's offices in the western city of Pune in
Maharashtra state, officers said.
It comes a week after lawmakers passed a bill
allowing harsher punishments for juveniles aged
16-18 following an outcry over the release of a
young rapist who served three years in a detention
facility for his part in a notorious gang rape in
2012.
Earlier this month, an Indian court sentenced seven
men to death after they were convicted of the rape
and murder of a Nepalese woman suffering from
mental illness, reports said.
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