The family of a ten-year-old girl who was detained after complaining she had been raped by a neighbour is under police protection amid claims that she will be stoned to death if they do not withdraw the allegation.
The young Dalit girl's overnight detention, alone in a cell in a special women's police station, has caused growing anger throughout India as it seeks to improve security for women following the gang rape and murder of a Delhi student last December.
Four officers from the Kotwali women's police station near Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh were suspended pending an investigation after an Indian television crew which happened to be in the station filmed the girl behind bars.
She had gone to the police station with her mother who had found her unconscious in a field after, she said, a 35-year-old higher caste neighbour had raped her.
The girl is from one of four poor Dalit or "untouchable" families in a village dominated by higher caste Lodhe Rajputs. Since making the complaint they have been under intense pressure from village elders to drop the claim and accept a "settlement" instead. Full story...
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The young Dalit girl's overnight detention, alone in a cell in a special women's police station, has caused growing anger throughout India as it seeks to improve security for women following the gang rape and murder of a Delhi student last December.
Four officers from the Kotwali women's police station near Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh were suspended pending an investigation after an Indian television crew which happened to be in the station filmed the girl behind bars.
She had gone to the police station with her mother who had found her unconscious in a field after, she said, a 35-year-old higher caste neighbour had raped her.
The girl is from one of four poor Dalit or "untouchable" families in a village dominated by higher caste Lodhe Rajputs. Since making the complaint they have been under intense pressure from village elders to drop the claim and accept a "settlement" instead. Full story...
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