Earlier this year in March, a 65-year-old man was sentenced to life imprisonment for raping his daughter and minor granddaughter. In shocking details revealed to the court, the woman alleged her father had been sexually assaulting her since she was 15.
A man was arrested in Mumbai’s Andheri for allegedly raping his daughter, reports said Tuesday. The 38-year-old has been charged under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) as well as the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) since the girl was an 11-year-old minor.
Public spaces, streets, even schools and homes: Is safety not guaranteed to girls anywhere in India? With every area possessing the capacity for brute violence and sexual assault against them, where do our country’s girls go to live? More importantly, how must one go on living in such a reality?
That a young girl was raped by her father, as reported, isn’t a one-off incident. In a country where reportedly every 15 minutes a rape happens, ample reports augment the fact that safety at home is often compromised. A report we did last year detailed how, during the coronavirus pandemic, the pandemic of rape had failed to cease.
National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data from 2018 claims that every fourth victim of rape in India was a minor while in 94 percent of cases, the assailant was known to the victim. In 2019, the total crime rate against women increased from 58.8 to 62.4 percent.
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