Same story but with a different face, toddler this time!!
Delhi lived up to its tag of being a city unsafe for women when in two separate incidents, two minor girls were gang-raped on Friday. In the first case, a five year old girl was allegedly gang raped by three men in Delhi’s Anand Vihar Friday evening. Three suspects have been arrested in the case by the police who happen to be labourers living near the house of the girl. It has been reported that the men were inebriated during the time they committed the crime. The victim has been admitted to GTB hospital.
The second incident took place in Nangloi at around 11 pm, when a two-and-a-half year old girl was abducted from outside her house by two motorcycle borne assailants. The young girl reportedly walked out of the house during a power cut late Friday and was abducted by two men on a motorcycle, eyewitnesses said. She was later found bleeding in a nearby park during early hours of Saturday after which she was rushed to the hospital where she is undergoing treatment for her injuries.
Meanwhile, politicians from different hues took this opportunity to take potshots at each other. Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal blamed PM Modi and the LG for Delhi’s lack of security and raised concern over the “repeated” rape of minors in the city. “Am on my way to hospitals to meet rape victims,” he tweeted
An agitated crowd of more than 100 people gathered near the toddler's home late Saturday afternoon attempting to block traffic and lambasting the police's failure to make arrests in the case, according to an AFP reporter at the scene.
"They (police) are not doing anything to arrest the rapists. We don't feel safe in this city and there will be a day when parents will stop giving birth to girls fearing they will be raped," a female relative of the girl told reporters without giving her name.
The two attacks come as New Delhi grapples with a grim litany of sexual assaults against women -- and in several recent cases, children -- that have sparked outrage in India and abroad.
"We have launched a manhunt for the suspects. So far no one has been arrested," Pushpendra Kumar, West Delhi police chief, told AFP of the younger girl's case.
"Two men were involved in the abduction of the girl and the tests have confirmed rape," Kumar said, adding that further examinations would show whether both men raped the toddler.
He said they found the younger child bleeding profusely several hours after she went missing. Authorities have released CCTV footage of two men riding away on a motorbike with the victim in an attempt to catch the alleged perpetrators.
Separately, police in eastern Delhi arrested three men overnight in the case of the five-year-old victim, whom tests showed was raped multiple times, after locals managed to catch her alleged assailants.
"Her clothes were partially torn with blood spots all over them. Some locals saw her and she told them she was sexually assaulted," an officer from Anand Vihar police station in eastern Delhi told AFP on condition of anonymity.
- Safety situation 'deteriorating' -
"Some of the locals then barged into the house and caught them (the alleged perpetrators) before handing them over to us," the officer said.
Both girls are undergoing medical treatment but are believed to be out of danger.
The latest attacks come eight days after a four-year-old girl was allegedly raped and slashed with a blade before being abandoned by a railway track in the capital.
Ranjana Kumari, head of Delhi-based Centre for Social Research said the ongoing turf war between the two governments left Delhi vulnerable to such horrific crimes.
"Delhi is not safe and secure for women and the situation is deteriorating," Kumari told AFP.
"Most of these incidents have been reported in lower income areas like slums and densely populated areas, where mostly migrants stay. These men live in crammed spaces with no social or parental control and usually no fear of law," she said.
The fatal gang rape of a young student on a bus in Delhi in 2012 led to an outpouring of anger over frightening levels of violence against women.
India recorded 36,735 rape cases in 2014, with 2,096 of them in Delhi.
"When will Delhi wake up?
No words from my side today, just being ashamed to call myself an Indian!!
One solution is there, surely!!
One solution is there, surely!!
#Satyam_Bruyat
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