While doing research for this article, I was horrified to see that there was no dearth of rape cases in India in the first half of this year alone. The fact that I could find one news related to rape cases every day is enough to make us ponder where we, as a country, are heading.
Here’s a list of some of the most horrific rape cases that have already been recorded in the first half of 2019.
1. A 16-year-old girl was gang-raped for 5 days in Andhra Pradesh.
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2. A 19-year-old girl from Bihar was allegedly gang-raped by 6 men in front of her father.
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3. A 12-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly raped and then beheaded by her 3 brothers and uncle in Madhya Pradesh’s Sagar district.
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4. A 4-year-old girl was raped in Aligarh after the accused lured her with ₹10 note and took her to a secluded spot.
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5. A 11-year-old girl was raped and murdered in Unnao and her body was found lying in an orchard.
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6. A 3-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her 11-year-old neighbour in Dehradun when the girl’s parents were not at home.
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7. A 13-year-old girl was raped by 2 men at her home in Shahjahanpur when her parents had gone out to purchase medicines.
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8. 3 sex workers were allegedly raped by 9 men at a farm house in Noida.
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9. A 9-month-old girl was raped in Telangana after the man took her to a secluded place in the wee hours.
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10. A minor girl was raped inside her residence in Kolkata when her parents were not at home.
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11. A 43-year-old mentally challenged woman was raped by a social worker in Mumbai.
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12. A 4-year-old girl was raped in a private school in Punjab.
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13. A 17-year-old deaf and dumb girl was allegedly raped by 3 men in Rampur who also filmed the act.
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14. A 15-year-old girl was raped by her father in Jajpur district of Odisha.
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15. An air hostess was allegedly raped by her colleague after she passed out while having drinks with him.
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16. A 3-year-old girl was raped in Bandipora, J&K during the holy month of Ramzan after the accused lured her with a candy.
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17. A woman in UP was repeatedly raped for days after she was sold off by her father.
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18. A 16-year-old girl was kidnapped, confined and raped by 3 men in Noida for 51 days.
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19. A woman was raped, beaten, videotaped and blackmailed in Alwar when she went out with her husband for shopping.
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20. A 9-year-old girl was raped and killed in Vile Parle, Mumbai.
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21. A married woman was gang-raped by 3 men in Bikaner when she went to collect firewood.
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22. A 6-year-old girl was raped and murdered by a drunk teenager in a Hyderabad village after she went missing while playing Holi.
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23. A 16-year-old girl was raped at gunpoint In UP’s Shamli district when she went out to relieve herself.
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24. A 7-year-old girl was raped and murdered in Kannauj after being abducted from a temple near her house.
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25. A 13-year-old girl was raped by her father in Gurugram after he had a fight with his wife.
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26. A woman was repeatedly gang-raped at a farm house in Ludhiana after she and her husband were abducted, looted and beaten up.
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27. A 5-year-old girl was raped and murdered in Mumbai after being abducted while sleeping with her family in a pavement shack.
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28. An engineering student was allegedly raped and murdered in Raichur.
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29. A 4-year-old girl was raped and murdered after being kidnapped from a slum in Indore.
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30. A 5-year-old girl was raped & murdered by her neighbour after he took the girl with him for a puja.
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And mind you, this isn’t an exhaustive list of the gruesome crime that is committed almost every day in our country. There are hundred others which go unreported and unregistered.