The house once occupied by India’s most notorious rapists is now sealed with a heavy padlock, at the end of a cul-de-sac smelling of musty abandonment.
Ask the neighbors about Mukesh Singh and they will try to shoo you away, or, failing that, retreat down one of the colony’s narrow alleys, releasing a stream of muttered complaints: One more outsider raking up this shameful episode, pouring life back into a stain that had begun to fade.
It is not that they do not remember Mr. Singh, one of four men from this neighborhood arrested in the savage rape of a 23-year-old physiotherapy student who later died of her injuries. Sentenced to death in 2013, Mr. Singh re-emerged into the public eye last week, when the BBC released quotes from a jailhouse interview he gave for “India’s Daughter,” a British documentary about the crime. Indian authorities have banned the film.
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No one goes unnoticed in Ravidas, a warren of tiny houses where auto-rickshaw drivers and street vendors are trying to haul their families up to the lowest rung of India’s middle class. Yet a code of silence has settled around the subject of the 2012 rape. Many of Mr. Singh’s former neighbors long for his death. Full story...
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Ask the neighbors about Mukesh Singh and they will try to shoo you away, or, failing that, retreat down one of the colony’s narrow alleys, releasing a stream of muttered complaints: One more outsider raking up this shameful episode, pouring life back into a stain that had begun to fade.
It is not that they do not remember Mr. Singh, one of four men from this neighborhood arrested in the savage rape of a 23-year-old physiotherapy student who later died of her injuries. Sentenced to death in 2013, Mr. Singh re-emerged into the public eye last week, when the BBC released quotes from a jailhouse interview he gave for “India’s Daughter,” a British documentary about the crime. Indian authorities have banned the film.
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No one goes unnoticed in Ravidas, a warren of tiny houses where auto-rickshaw drivers and street vendors are trying to haul their families up to the lowest rung of India’s middle class. Yet a code of silence has settled around the subject of the 2012 rape. Many of Mr. Singh’s former neighbors long for his death. Full story...
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