Gang-rape of tourist in India rekindles outrage

(CBS News) A Swiss tourist on a cycling vacation through India was gang-raped Friday night in front of her husband.

Police say they're questioning suspects in the incident, which is rekindling the outrage that followed the gang-rape on a bus last December of a student who later died of her injuries.

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The victim -- hooded to protect her identity -- was seen on her way to the hospital where she was treated and later released.

Meanwhile, police began searching a forested area in Northern India where the couple had been camping.

Authorities say a gang of men beat and robbed them there, then raped the woman before running away.

Within hours, young activists were protesting in the streets of the provincial capital, Bhopal.

Every day, says activist Akhilesh Jain, there are 10 to 12 incidents like this.

Backing up his claim, police in the same region Saturday paraded three men they'd just arrested.

They include the driver and conductor of a bus and were accused of gang-raping a woman passenger.

In December, huge protests erupted across India after Jyoti Singh, a physiotherapy student, was gang-raped -- also on a bus -- so violently that she later died of her injuries.

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Responding to the outcry, Indian politicians have promised better policing and special fast-track courts, but rape in India may actually be on the rise.

The National Crime Bureau estimates a woman is raped in India every 20 minutes.

[saber72]

The real problem here is that the tourist was there in the first place. What a moron. India is a hell hole. The elite treat the other 999 million people like dogs. So they act like dogs. Why would you think you can just ride your bike casually through this pile of dung of a country.
It sickens me that we are sending all of our employment over there. I HATE India.

[busterthedawgy]

I see . . . so we blame the victim. How enlightened.

[saber72]

lol buster. Ok, when you jump into a pool of sharks and get bitten, we won't blame you for being an idiot. idiot.

[BludApfel]

She shouldn't have been standing there.

Actually she would have faced worse chances of being raped in America.

[BludApfel]

I love all the fake outrage - Western countries (especially EVERY English speaking country) have far higher rates of rape than India.

[andthetruthis]

You will be waiting forever to hear a news report in the USA of a woman being gang-raped on a bus.
There is no "so-what" attitude about rape in the USA,like India.

That's the point.

[saber72]

You are both so uninformed and full of sh**. Morons.

[saber72]

Sooo completely wrong and ignorant by both of you. Do some research. India is a cesspool and rape is common. People, especially women in the lower castes are nothing there.
Idiots.

[BludApfel]

Rate of rape in Australia: 79.5
Rate of rape in the UK: 28.8
Rate of rape in the USA:27.3
Rate of rape in New Zealand:25.8
Rate of rape in Ireland: 10.7
Rate of rape in India: 1.8
Rate of rape in Japan: 1.0


2009 Richmond High gang rape anyone?

2011 Cleveland, TX? 18 blacks on a single Hispanic girl.

Clearly for a woman the most dangerous place to be in the world is Australia.

[seadoosnipe]

Are you serious? We have rape crimes, yes. That is a fact. But, the way rapes take place in India is barbaric! Rapes in America, in most cases, happen in mostly private places, where there is no help available. In India, it's the bus drivers or in the case of the lady who died, it was the entire bus!!!! Come on, are the guys over there so hard up, they have to stoop to getting their jollies by brutal treatment of women. I bet the rest of the population of men, terrorize the cows and goats. Get a girlfriend, find a woman who wants to be intimate with you. You don't have to rape! Or, is it agains't the law to have casual sex from dating?

[Transatlantique]

Wow, now I know where I can go for some quick hot sex.

[kingfisher12345]

Indians protest and censor an intimate kiss scene between man and a woman in a movie blaming western culture.

Only now, they seem to show some courage in protesting such dastardly acts by their men.

[FormerUSMCSergeant]

Many Indian men, apparently, are savages.

[Transatlantique]

How many Indian men do you know Ms. femi-nazi twerp?

[cattiej]

I believe that citizens should avoid traveling to India..Boycott buying any products made in India....this includes many of the Rx meds your Doctor orders...tell the pharmacy you want medicine made in America.....

[andthetruthis]

I believe rape starts at hate for women.

An Indian woman raped every 20 minutes?

What's this?

[Transatlantique]

"I believe" weakens your statement.

War and genital mutilation starts at hate for men.

Men are 96% more likely to die on their jobs than women.

What's this?

[andthetruthis]

This thread is about rape in India.
Not war and genital mutilation of men.
Even if that's so,men send men to war.