Even in the modern 21st century, women are not safe all over the world. The constantly increasing number of rapes in India is a serious matter for the police as well as for Indian government.
In India, Delhi has the highest number of rape cases recorded every year. Sources showed that the number of rape cases has doubled between 1990 and 2008. According to the National Crime Records Bureau, 24206 rape cases were registered in India in 2011 only.
According to the source, a new case is reported in every 20 minutes. There are even cases that we cannot imagine, girls and women are being molested, raped but only some of them get the justice. With the heavy heart, we are listing the 15 Worst and Most Brutal Rape Cases in India.
15. Shopian rape and murder case
On 29th June 2009, two sisters in law’s went missing from their house in Shopian district, Jammu, and Kashmir. On the next day, their bodies were found, one kilometer away from their house. Both the women were raped and then murdered. As the news spread, hundreds of people, including a large number of women gathered on the streets, went protesting. No FIR was registered on the spot, but when this case spread, the police filed the FIR report after 11 days.
14. Geeta Chopra rape and murder
Geeta Chopra and her brother Sanjay Chopra, two teenagers who were first kidnapped and then murdered in New Delhi in the year 1978. Two men, Jasbir Singh and Kuljeet Singh were convicted kidnappers, kidnapped the duo for ransom, but then after getting to know their family backgrounds, they killed Geeta and her brother. They also rape Geeta before murdering her. After a few months, they were arrested while escaping on a train. Both culprits were found guilty and hanged till death in 1982.
13. Soumya rape and murder case
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Soumya, a 23-year-old woman was traveling from Ernakulam to Shornur, Kerala. On 1st Feb 2011, she aboard a passenger train. After several minutes, when the train reaches the Vallathol Nagar station, the convict, named Govindachami a 33-year-old man, tried to rob her and smashed her head on the wall, and threw her out of the train. He carried her to the woods near the railway track and raped her. Soumya died the very next month in a Government medical school. The criminal was caught and hanged.
12. Jalgaon rape case
The Jalgaon rape case is one of the prime cases of human trafficking in Maharashtra. It came to the light in mid-1994. It was estimated that as many as 500 innocent girls and women were victimized. Most of them were school minors. Reports show that many were tranquilized before being sexually assaulted and they were blackmailed. The nexus of human trafficking finally broke after a few girls lodged a police complaint in 1993, which helped police and authorities to free those women and children.
11. Anjana Mishra rape case
Anjana Mishra rape case was one of the many high profile rape cases in India, which took place in Orissa in 1999. The then Chief Minister J. B. Patnaik and his friend, former Advocate-General of Orissa Indrajit Ray were both accused by Anjana of having played a role in the incident. Anjana and her friend were traveling in a car on the very day of the incident when they were intercepted by three men and gang-raped in front of her friend. Two out of three culprits were arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment and a fine of 5000 each. The rape case spoiled the ruling party’s image.
10. Ajmer rape case
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In 1992, India again witnessed a brutal and inhuman case of coerced sexual exploitation in Ajmer, Rajasthan. A gang, with evil intentions, befriended over 100 of school girls and then raped them. They photographed them to further exploit the victims. After being raped, depressed victims committed suicide. Eight people were arrested after an intense investigation of police and women-focused NGO’s, and sentence them to life imprisonment. And look at the irony, even after this, state court decided to reduce their life sentence to 10 years of imprisonment.
9. Suryanelli rape case
Dharmarajan, the only man convicted
A 16-year-old girl from Suryanelli village of Idukki district in Kerala was abducted and gang-raped by 5 persons repeatedly over 40 days. This is a high profile scandal in Kerala, including various notable persons and politicians. On January 1996, the girl’s family just relocated to the village at that time because of her father transfer when she went missing for straight 40 days without any trace.
She was later spotted near her father’s office in a dreadful state. After several close examinations, doctors confirmed molestation and rape. In 2012, it was reported that the company that she was working lately suspended her in a case of breach of trust and forgery, but reinstated after 8 months due to public pressure. She also stated that her family is still treated as an outcast.
8. Mathura rape case
The Mathura rape case is an incident of custodial rape or prison rape in Chandrapur district of Maharastra. On 26 March 1972, a 15-year-old tribal girl named Mathura was reportedly raped by two policemen in the compound of the Desai Ganj Police Station. Earlier on the same day, she and her brother were summoned to the police station along with a person named Ashok who was charged with kidnapping. Following the investigation, they let Ashok and his family go, but they asked Mathura to stay behind while her brother waited outside. That was the time when they raped her. They went to court after court, but there was no justice granted.
7. Bahraich rape case
This case takes us to the Bahraich district of Uttar Pradesh, where a 15-year-old was murdered and her body was found hanging from a tree. The girl was kidnapped from her home at Nanpara just 160 kilometers from Lucknow. According to the reports, three people first raped and killed her, and later hanged her dead body to the tree to make it convincing of a suicide. After the investigation, several police constables were suspended for failing their duties.
6. Vachathi case
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The Vachathi refers to devilish crime, happened on June the 20th in 1992. A team of 263 forest personnel with police entered Dalit dominated village of Vachathi in Dharmapuri district, Tamil Nadu, searching and inquiring about Veerappan a renowned Sandalwood smuggler. During the search, they destroy their house, ransacked the villagers’ property, killed their cattle and raped 18 women. After the CBI inquiry, all of them found guilty, 54 of the accused died by the time and remaining 215 were sentenced to jail. The case illustrates not only the state of women in rural India but the grudge of Dalit women in our modern society.
5. Imrana rape case
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A 28-year-old Muslim woman was sexually assaulted by her father in law in Muzaffarnagar on 6th June 2005. After this, the village elders announced Imrana’s marriage with her husband null, as the Sharia regards sexual relations with both the father and son as illegal or forbidden. This sparked nationwide controversy as some argued that the case was treated as an adultery and not the rape case. The police registered a case under section 376 and 506 of rape and intimidation. He was sentenced 10 years of imprisonment and a fine of Rupees 3000.
4. 2015 Kandhamal gang rape case
The people were outraged when a 71-year-old Catholic nun was gang-raped by eight men in Ranaghat, Nadia district of West Bengal. Even before the attack, school officials already told police that they received death threats. On March 26, 2015, two men were arrested for the crime they have committed.
3. 2013 Mumbai gang rape
2013 Mumbai gang rape was executed by five individuals in the abandoned Shakti Mills compound, Mahalaxmi, Mumbai. On August 22, 2013, a 22-year-old photojournalist with her male colleague went to the deserted compound on an assignment. Five men attacked them, tied the male colleague and molest the photojournalist.
They also threatened both of them to not to report this incident. She gave her statement to police after four days on the 26 August, after receiving medical treatment from Jaslok Hospital. In her statement, she bravely said that “I want no other woman in this city and country to go through such a brutal physical humiliation.
Perpetrators should be punished hard, they have ruined my life. No punishment short of a life term will take away my pain, humiliation and physical abuse I underwent. Rape is not the end of life. I will continue my fight.” This spread like a fire in the jungle, and soon the police were able to catch those culprits in 65 hours. On April 4, three of the culprits were sentenced to death while two of them were awarded the life sentence.
2. Bhanwari Devi case (2011)
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The Bhanwari Devi rape case attracted widespread media attention nationally and internationally. She was a 36-year-old Auxillary Nurse Midwife. On 1st Sep 2011, Bhanwari Devi went missing. Her husband alleged that she was abducted on the orders of Mahipal Maderna politician from Jodhpur, Rajasthan. According to her husband, she was being blackmailed by Maderna and Malkhan Singh -based on a CD in which they were seen in a compromising position. The case was later handed over to CBI and they solved the whole case in 100 days. CBI investigation revealed that the allegations were true and Maderna Nd Malkan were both founded guilty.
1. Delhi Gang rape and murder case
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16 December 2012 is the darkest day in the history of India. Delhi Gang rape and murder case was one of the most brutal cases not only in India but in the world. A 23-year woman and her friend were on their way to home from Saket to Dwarka. On their way, near Munirka, they aboard an off-duty private bus to reach their final destination.
Soon after some time, the male passenger, Awindra Pratap Pandey found that the bus was deviated and not going where they thought they were going. He was beaten by six people who were already on board with an iron rod and knocked unconscious. Then six of them of which one is a juvenile forced the woman, raped her and then he injected a wheel jack handle right into her genitals, which damaged her abdomen and intestine.
Their cruelty didn’t just end here, they threw both of them out from the moving bus, and vanished out of the spot. After a week of treatment, she died in a hospital in Singapore. All the six people were arrested and one of them Ram Singh committed suicide in the trial period in jail. Four of them were hanged and the young boy under 18 is sent to a juvenile home.
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