Inside a leafy Mumbai square normally accustomed to shrill sloganeering, a crowd protested on Friday with unsettling silence. As cameramen crawled along the fringes and policemen muttered into their walkie-talkies, protestors sat still, holding signs that declared Mumbai — widely believed to be one of India’s safest cities — the country’s new rape capital.
They had gathered to demand justice for a young photojournalist who was reportedly gang-raped while her male colleague was tied and beaten in an abandoned textile mill compound in Mumbai. The woman, a 23-year-old intern with a Mumbai-based English-language magazine, was attacked around 7PM on Thursday evening when she was taking photographs for an assignment about housing for textile mill workers in the city’s Lower Parel neighborhood, an area known for its offices, malls and restaurants. Satyapal Singh, Mumbai’s police commissioner, said on Friday afternoon that one of the accused had been arrested and four others had been identified. The woman, who suffered multiple injuries, he said, was recovering.
The incident occurred less than a year after widespread protests followed the horrifying case of a 23-year-old student who was fatally gang raped on a moving bus in New Delhi, and only a few months after a new sexual offence law was passed to impose heavier punishments for violence against women. Read more:
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