Protests and anger in India after 4 men were arrested for the alleged rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl, whose death has brought into focus both rampant sexual violence as well as caste prejudice in the country.
on Wednesday after four men were arrested for the alleged rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl, whose death has brought into focus both rampant sexual violence as well as caste prejudice in the country.community, one of Hinduism’s most oppressed castes, was found dead near a Delhi crematorium on Sunday night, Ingit Singh from Delhi Police’s South West District told NBC News over the telephone.
There are 200 million Dalits in India, out of a population of 1.3 billion, according to the most recent government census.from the National Crime Records Bureau 42,793 cases of crimes against Dalits took place that year — in other words, a Dalit was a target of crime every 15 minutes in India on average.
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