India woman raped in moving bus in Karnataka

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India woman raped in moving bus in Karnataka - BBC News

India woman raped in moving bus in Karnataka


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There have been public protests and an outcry against sexual violence in India

A 19-year-old woman has been raped in a moving bus in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, police say.

The woman, a nurse, had boarded the bus on Friday morning to go to the hospital where she worked, when she was attacked.

The driver and the cleaner of the bus have been arrested.

The crime is being compared with the infamous December 2012 Delhi gangrape where a 23-year-old medical student was fatally assaulted.

The latest incident took place on a bus in Hoskote, about 22 miles (35km) from state capital Bangalore.

"According to the woman's complaint, the incident took place between 7:30 and 8.00 am [local time]. She was the only passenger in the bus. The driver changed the route of the bus, gave the wheel to the cleaner and raped her," superintendent of police in Bangalore Rural, B Ramesh, told the BBC.

Mr Ramesh said that they had learned of the rape after the nurse narrated the incident to a doctor at the hospital.

The issue of sexual assault has been high on the agenda in India since a 23-year-old student was gangraped and murdered on a bus in Delhi in December 2012.

The case prompted global outrage and a tightening of laws on sexual violence.

Correspondents say tougher laws have failed to bring down the number of rape cases and a series of high-profile crimes have taken place since then.

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[Rajkumar]

i used to think south India is free from influence of north India
. What is wrong with people these days.

 

[Vedicity]

i used to think south India is free from influence of north India
. What is wrong with people these days.

The rapist must be north Indian.

 

[T90TankGuy]

They were both arrested and will be sentenced according to the law. this is a few days old . and has been posted before.

 

[Vedicity]

They were both arrested and will be sentenced according to the law. this is a few days old . and has been posted before.

This was published on the front page of BBC news today. How much more damage can India's soft power sustain?

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

This was published on the front page of BBC news today. How much more damage can India's soft power sustain?

I guess India thought that if they were super pro-West that the West wouldn't demonize them like this, with Front page news for every rape story in India.

Of course that never works, but credit to them for trying. It was worth a shot at least.

 

[Asiatic Lion]

I guess India thought that if they were super pro-West that the West wouldn't demonize them like this, with Front page news for every rape story in India.

Of course that never works, but credit to them for trying. It was worth a shot at least.

I don't know why most of Indians want to suck Whitman's balls.

 

[T90TankGuy]

This was published on the front page of BBC news today. How much more damage can India's soft power sustain?

They are a few days late.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

I don't know why most of Indians want to suck Whitman's balls.

It's a strategy to improve their image in the world.

Granted, it's not working (perhaps it even backfired). But at least they tried.

Nothing wrong with trying and failing. Granted they had to give up some dignity for this strategy, but that's all part of the game.

 

[scorpionx]

BBC must be aware of the number of rapes per hundred thousand population in their own country (UN Crime trend survey record 2010). Don't want to sound it like an excuse but sorry to say, western countries are doing no better; Indeed their records are much worse if numbers are to be believed. The point is, every now and then a thread on rape in India is meaningless.

 

[Moonlight]

It's evil. :/

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

BBC must be aware of the number of rapes per hundred thousand population in their own country (UN Crime trend survey record 2010). Don't want to sound it like an excuse but sorry to say, western countries are doing no better; Indeed their records are much worse if numbers are to be believed. The point is, every now and then a thread on rape in India is meaningless.

BBC's own headquarters are in London.

Do you know how many rapes happen in London every single day? Many even just down the road from the BBC headquarters itself?

Yet somehow no local London rapes ever make the front page of the BBC news, even if it happened literally down the road from where they work. You have to scour the local sections to even have a chance of seeing such stories.

Hmm. Clearly no bias at all.

 

[Lonely Hermit]

BBC's own headquarters are in London.

Do you know how many rapes happen in London every single day? Many even just down the road from the BBC headquarters itself?

Yet somehow no local London rapes ever make the front page of the BBC news, even if it happened literally down the road from where they work. You have to scour the local sections to even have a chance of seeing such stories.

Hmm. Clearly no bias at all.

Heard of Jimmy Savile story how bbc tried to cover up rape scandal involving this BBC producer.
The sinister treatment of dissent at the BBC | Nick Cohen | Comment is free | The Guardian

"Nobody from John Humphrys in the morning to Evan Davis at night dares mention a scandal at the BBC. It undermines their reporting of every abuse whistleblowers reveal. It reinforces the dirty common sense of British life that you must keep your head down if you want to keep your job.

The scandal is simply this: the BBC is forcing out or demoting the journalists who exposed Jimmy Savile as a voracious abuser of girls. As Meirion Jones put it to me: “There is a small group of powerful people at the BBC who think it would have been better if the truth about Savile had never come out. And they aim to punish the reporters who revealed it.”

& these people have the gal to point fingre at us.

 

[naveen mishra]

ya tolerant state

 

[raktaka]

BBC's own headquarters are in London.

Do you know how many rapes happen in London every single day? Many even just down the road from the BBC headquarters itself?

Yet somehow no local London rapes ever make the front page of the BBC news, even if it happened literally down the road from where they work. You have to scour the local sections to even have a chance of seeing such stories.

Hmm. Clearly no bias at all.

Have you learnt to recognize a "Pseudo Secularist" Yet ? ........... I recall you mentioning the earlier.