Monday, August 01, 2016

Bollywood filmmaker convicted of raping American...

In what may be a sign of a cultural shift in India, well-known Bollywood filmmaker Mahmood Farooqui has been convicted of raping an American researcher.

A New Delhi trial court found Farooqui, best known as co-director of the 2010 film, "Peepli (Live)," guilty Saturday of raping the 35-year-old woman in the nation's first conviction for an oral sex rape, prosecution lawyer advocate Vrinda Grover told CNN.

India has been taking a closer look at its rape laws after the notorious gang rape and murder of a 23-year old woman on a bus in 2012 as it circled through the streets of New Delhi. A legal amendment was added in 2013 that included forced oral sex as rape in criminal law, Grover said.

The victim in Saturday's conviction, whose identity is protected by law, was in India conducting research and was introduced to Farooqui through a mutual friend, Grover said.

She was "invited by Mr. Farooqui to his South Delhi residence in March 2015 where he forced himself on (her)," she said. "This case is an example that rape is not a class problem and even rich and affluent people are indulged in such crime." Full story...

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