For the reporter it is more important to film the event than to save the girl!
Th Media’s deafening silence on the reporter’s action of Filming the incident instead of helping the victim is strange.
It is the Independent that has highlighted this issue.
If the media which is staffed by the educated(presumably)and the socially conscious is silent, how is it that Sex education is going to solve the problem, when normal education does not kindle the human quality of Compassion?
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SCENES captured on film by a television journalist of a mob molesting and stripping a teenage girl in a city in north-easternIndia have triggered outrage across the country.
Many people are demanding to know why the journalist filmed the 30-minute assault, rather than trying to help the young woman.
At least four men have been arrested by police in the aftermath of the attack on a 17-year-old fashion student.
Officers said they were able to identify a number of the alleged participants from the footage that was broadcast on television and subsequently uploaded on to the internet.
The media channel has defended the actions of its staff.
The incident in the city of Guwahati has again highlighted the dangers and threats often faced by women in India, a nation where sexual harassment is often referred to by the media as ‘Eve-teasing’.
Yesterday, television channels repeatedly broadcast the footage of the beating and assault of the young woman, said to have taken place after she had been celebrating a friend’s birthday in a bar.”
I am of the opinion that the absence of swift deterrent punishment and erosion of moral values as the reason for the type of roguish behavior.
Unless we address this problem , we would be like the economists who blabber on economy where no results would be forth coming sans sound bites.
“A teenaged girl was pulled by her hair, lifted up, thrown down, beaten up, thrashed, molested, groped, slapped and stripped in full public view for 30 minutes on Monday night at a busy road near the Christian Basti area in Guwahati by a mob of around 20 men.
I am beginning to think if my family is atall safe in this country. It is hu some xpert saying lack of Sexrting to see a teenager to be treated in this manner.The video of the incident that was leaked on YouTube, shows the mob – consisting of around 20 men – beating the girl before stripping her.
Its a shameful act from the city which was known for tolerance.
The way the entire incident took place shows the mean and beastly thoughts that our “Youth” is cultivating in them.
What troubles me more is the fact that it happened in the city where i had seen the light of my Youth and was always proud to be associated with this part of the country;
People enter into a Live in relationshiponly to avoid the responsibilities that accompany a marriage ,with a clear intention of ditching when it suits them.
Marriage Day (Photo credit: Fikra)
They hide behind nonsensical statements like, ‘want to know the partner well’ and the like.
How many people, despite living matrimony have understood their spouses?
It is impossible to understand another human being.
If the live in relationship breaks ,how does earlier intercourse becomes a rape?
It looks as if even married couple have to sign a bond consenting for sexual intercourse!
Again can not a Man claim the same privilege?(!)
Sheer nonsense.
You have entered into a relationship knowing the full implication.
One does not marry to remain a monk nor a woman a nun.
Please read my blog on rape.
A Delhi-based computer professional had no qualms in maintaining a live-in relationship for 8 years with a girl but when it came to marrying her, he quickly fell into the customary caste-based obligation to tie the knot with another girl chosen by his parents. Married just three months ago, now he faces rape charges brought against him by the erstwhile live-in partner. His last hope for protection against arrest went up in smoke on Friday as a vacation bench of the Supreme Court dismissed his bail plea.
Petitioner’s counsel argued that the erstwhile live-in partner had never complained of rape during the 8 year relationship and has filed a complaint with police accusing him of raping her only after learning that he was getting married.
A bench of Justices Deepak Verma and S J Mukhopadhaya said “for 8 years you remained together and now you have ditched her to marry another. That could be a reason for the complaint. But you face the charge.”
The two met in 2004 and stayed together as live-in partners towards the end of 2011. But, the man chickened out when his family and society opposed the match on the ground that the girl did not belong to the caste in which he could get married.
As soon as the girl came to know that he was going to marry another chosen by his parents, she filed a complaint with the police on February 4, just eight days before the date of his marriage. The counsel said the family elders intervened and settled the matter. The girl withdrew her complaint on February 8.
The boy got married on February 12 and the former live-in partner went to Mandawali police station on March 1 insisting on registration of her complaint accusing him of repeatedly raping her on the promise of marriage.
With the trial court and the Delhi High Court refusing to grant him bail, he had moved the Supreme Court seeking relief on the ground, among others, that he had been married just three months ago.
A 17-year-old girl has been jailed for more than a week now to ensure she testifies against an ex-convict accused of abducting and raping her.
The unidentified Sacramento teen has been held on a material witness warrant to guarantee her presence at the trial of Frank William Rackley, who is accused of three counts or rape, scheduled to begin on April 23.
Rackley, who weighs more than 200 pounds and bears a swastika tattoo on his chest, is charged with raping the girl in his pickup in July. Prosecutors say a rape examination found Rackley’s DNA
The 37-year-old ‘threw [the victim] into the driver’s side of the truck,’ and ‘drove to a dark spot on a residential street and parked,’ before raping the girl and pushing her out of his vehicle, according to court documents.
The girl’s lawyer will ask Judge Lawrence G. Brown to set her client free at a hearing scheduled today.
‘I think it’s outrageous that the DA‘s Office wants to put a rape victim – a juvenile rape victim – in custody, as if she were the criminal, in a case where she is the victim,’ attorney Lisa M. Franco told the Sacramento Bee.
‘What this is serving to do is only making victims out there – potential victims and future victims – not want to come forward because they’re going to have to go to jail, because they’re afraid to testify,’ she added to CBS Sacramento.
Spurred and stung by a Police Officer‘s statement in Canada ‘if people want to be safe from rape ,let them not dress as a slut’ . some women have come out on the street with revealing and provoking dress/undress to express their Freedom to Dress.
Poor Police officer, who might be thinking of his daughter ,sister!
If some want to dress the way that would arouse men,it is welcome.
Men should welcome it.
If some one wants to invite men, let them and face the consequences.
Why should the society crib about it?
Slutwalk.
True.clothes don’t rape,but it invite men.
I saw another image in Times of India dated 7Dec where it displays a girl in short pants with a placard
‘Believe it or not!
My short skirt has NOTHING
To Deal with you’
Then for whom?
I wish these people could show these photos and their radical thoughts to their children and grandchildren in future.
Some Freedom and some feminism!
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Local activists’ desire to keep pace with their global counterparts received a setback on Sunday: SlutWalk Bangalore was called off after police withdrew permission to the event in the wake of threats from unidentified right-wing groups, including a women’s outfit, to disrupt it.
Late Saturday evening, a person, claiming to be speaking on behalf of the women’s group, threatened the organizers that “whoever takes part in the SlutWalk would be beaten up with brooms”. Around 7.30pm, police informed the organizers that the permission for the event had been withheld. This was confirmed in writing a couple of hours later, stating the permission has been “withdrawn for security reasons”.
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