Five arrested in India over Japanese tourist gang rape

[News Bandit]

KOLKATA (AFP) - Five men have been arrested over the gang rape and extortion of a Japanese tourist held as a sex slave for nearly a month in a basement close to a famous Buddhist shrine in India, officials said Sunday.

 

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[jerry]

Savages , sometimes the death sentence is justified . 

[tourasia]

Wow, these Indians almost consider this sort of this as a sport. I just hope the punishment stops this awful trend. 

[casinoclub]

Does feel like a national sport with news coming so often.

 

The standards are so different from what we are used to:

 

 

 

 

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Under Indian law, marital rape is not a crime. This places India in the company of a handful of countries, including China, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.

 

 

 

In the wake of the gang rape of a 23-year-old woman last year, India last week strengthened its sexual assault legislation. But despite calls from activists, a man who rapes his wife cannot be punished under the country’s laws.

Whether to criminalize marital rape was widely debated in India ahead of last week’s vote in Parliament.

Criminalizing marital rape was also among the suggestions of the Verma Committee, a three-member panel appointed to suggest amendments to India’s sexual assault laws. The government rejected this proposed change, leaving it out of the draft bill it then presented to Parliament.

A panel of lawmakers who opposed the move argued it “has the potential of destroying the institution of marriage,” according to a report submitted to Parliament earlier this month.