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JI7

(89,264 posts)
Sun Mar 24, 2013, 05:34 AM Mar 2013

Who will rape an old woman? cop asks (Rape in India)

cops in india are so fucking corrupt. and we only know about this because the piece of shit didn't know someone was recording the whole thing. is it any surprise why convictions are so low in india ? when cops themselves decide to dismiss anyone making a complaint. and how they dealt with this piece of shit is transferring him to some other position instead of firing the fucker .


<: An additional superintendent of police (ASP) in Deoria district refused to entertain the rape complaint of a housewife merely because she was over 35 years of age. To add to the insensitivity, the officer said: "Who would rape such an old woman?"

On Wednesday night, a housewife was allegedly assaulted and knocked unconscious by a local villager while she was going to the farm fields to relieve herself. When she regained her senses, she found that she had been raped. She reached home and informed her husband about it.

Early next morning, the couple when to the local Bankata police station in Deoria district to register a complaint against a local youth Santosh Singh. Allegations are that the couple returned home after being informed that the senior officers will contact them once the preliminary inquiry into her complaint was completed. "When no one came, we decided to approach the cops at the police station once again because I wanted them to get my wife medically examined to secure any possible evidence of crime. We were shown the door at the police station," said the victim's husband.

The couple then approached Deoria ASP Keshav Chandra Goswami at his office. They were made to wait for more than three hours before the officer finally agreed to meet them while he was walking out of his office. The victim's husband tried to brief the ASP about his complaint when he was interrupted by the office: "How many children does she have?" he questioned her husband. When he said that they had three children, the officer asked him "What is the age of her eldest child?"

"Her eldest child—a daughter—is around 15 years of age," the victim's husband said. "Now, who will rape such an old woman? There must have been some other dispute behind the whole story...we will get it inquired," the ASP said and instead of directing the Bankata police to register a case on the victim's complaint and initiate action against the accused, got into his official vehicle and left, apparently unaware that the entire conversation had been recorded by somebody standing nearby.>

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-03-23/india/37959683_1_police-station-complaint-deoria

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Who will rape an old woman? cop asks (Rape in India) (Original Post) JI7 Mar 2013 OP
BBC World News Radio has been covering Ilsa Mar 2013 #1

Ilsa

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1. BBC World News Radio has been covering
Sun Mar 24, 2013, 07:57 AM
Mar 2013

the stories of rape in India and how corrupt the police are. The narrow-mindedness and unwillingness to accept information on criminal behavior is astounding.

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