A 16-year-old girl in India was found hanging on
Christmas day after apparently taking her life.
She had been kidnapped and gang-raped as
punishment for her mother winning a local
election. She went to the police with her mother
to report the matter but she wasn't taken
seriously. Feeling humiliated and traumatised, she
took her own life. It was only after her death that
police swung into action and arrested two
suspects.
The Socialist Party candidate in Mirzapur, Arvind
Sen, said that the girl was gang-raped to avenge
the poll defeat, allegedly by relatives of a losing
candidate.
Her mother was elected for the local government
faction, the block development council, in the
Mirzapur district of north-east India.
However, a senior police officer told said that a
post-mortem report did not find signs of rape.
The latest incident is the latest high-profile case
to spotlight women's safety in India in recent
years. Two construction workers were arrested for
the rape of a woman on the premises of tech
giant, Infosys. The men, aged in their 20s, filmed
the alleged assault, which occurred on Sunday at
one of the IT firm's offices in the western city of
Pune in Maharashtra state, officers said.
It comes a week after lawmakers passed a bill
allowing harsher punishments for juveniles aged
16-18 following an outcry over the release of a
young rapist who served three years in a
detention facility for his part in a notorious gang
rape in 2012.
Earlier this month, an Indian court sentenced
seven men to death after they were convicted of
the rape and murder of a Nepalese woman
suffering from mental illness, reports said
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