In the Badaun aftermath, more terrifying incidents have been reported from Uttar Pradesh. A 22-year-old was gang-raped and forced to drink acid in Bareilly. A 14-year-old was raped at gunpoint in her home in Muzaffarnagar. A minor gang-rape survivor in Meerut was abducted although her parents had been seeking police protection for over two months, and a woman judge was raped in Aligarh. Records show it has been harder for Dalit women to record rape under the Samajwadi Party government. But with a PR and governance disaster at hand, the party is still keen on shooting itself in the foot.
But we’re not done with stories of sexual assault. A woman in Meghalaya was killed by alleged militants for resisting their attempts at assault. And Delhi police evicted the 70-odd Dalit families who had camped there for over two months, protesting the gang-rape of four minor girls in Bhagana village, Haryana.
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