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January 16, 2025 | 01:47 pm
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - More than four dozen men have been arrested in India for the repeated rape of a teenage girl over several years, police said on Wednesday, as reported by Al Arabiya.
The victim was from the Dalit caste, the lowest rung in the rigid Hindu caste system. This group is targeted for sexual violence in a country with high rates of crime against women.
The unnamed victim, now 18, said about 60 men sexually abused her in the southern state of Kerala since she was just 13 years old.
"Forty-nine men have been detained," Pathanamthitta district police official Nandakumar S said.
The arrested men were known to the victim, including neighbors and family friends.
Rajeev N, a lawyer who heads the local child welfare committee, said the girl's parents were "unaware of their daughter's nightmare".
"The child was kept away from the media, and only the police visited her to record her statement," he added.
The Indian Express newspaper reported this week that one of the accused men blackmailed the woman with a video recorded during the rape.
After the threat, many of her friends sexually assaulted her.
A subsequent police investigation found that she had been gang-raped on at least five occasions, including once at a local hospital.
An average of nearly 90 rapes per day were reported in 2022 in the country of 1.4 billion people, but many more are thought to go unreported.
A court in the eastern city of Calcutta this week is expected to deliver its verdict against a man accused of raping and killing a 31-year-old doctor last year.
The discovery of her bloodied body at a government-run hospital in August last year sparked national outrage and protests against the chronic problem of violence against women.
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