Rape of seven-year-old girl sparks more protests in India

Indian law prohibits the naming of rape victims even after they have died because of the stigma attached to the crime

Indian law prohibits the naming of rape victims even after they have died because of the stigma attached to the crime

"Prime Minister we have to make sure that this stuff stops and India is now safe for woman and children", said an Indian-American girl whose video has been shared on Twitter.

Eight men accused of involvement in the rape and murder of an eight-year-old Muslim girl in the Jammu and Kashmir region appeared for the first hearing at the Jammu High Court on Monday.

The murderer was found sleeping alongside the dead girl's body near the wedding, and local television reporters showed the girl's family in tears as she was carried away under a white sheet.

Police said a neighbour who was putting up tents for the wedding had been detained on suspicion of luring the girl to the secluded building.

Abdul Rasheed Turabi, a member the Kashmir Legislative Assembly, who travelled to London, said: "We are here in solidarity with our suffering brothers who are being killed in hundreds and thousands by the Indian forces". But outrage has mounted as details of the rape emerged.

As the BBC reports, police say the girl had been sedated at a Hindu temple and was repeatedly raped and then bludgeoned and strangled to death.

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Citizens lashed out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party, who are accused of supporting the defendants.

In another recent incident, a teenage girl accused the governing Bharatiya Janata Party in Uttar Pradesh state of shielding a lawmaker accused of abducting and raping her past year. When her family protested after nearly a year of inaction by the police, her father was brutally assaulted.by Sengar's supporters, arrested on a false case and died in police custody. She was raped multiple times and eventually murdered.

"We will find out more only after we arrest the father". "Our sense of shame is all the more acute because some of our younger colleagues. also seem to have failed in their duty", it added.

A 2014 United Nations report said one in three rape victims in India was a minor.

Almost 40 percent of India's rape victims are children and the 40,000 reported rapes in 2016 marked a 60 percent increase over the level in 2012 - the year that a sickening rape and murder of a 23-year-old student in the capital New Delhi sparked nationwide demonstrations.

Meanwhile, in Pakistan's Karachi, at least one man was killed and several injured yesterday when a riot broke out in protest at the rape and murder of a six-year-old girl.

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