Madhya Pradesh, Indore Rape CCTV: Security camera footage showed woman being assaulted.

Bhopal:

Two horrific incidents of rape were reported Madhya Pradesh – one in Indore and another in Rewa – even as outrage continues over the August rape and murder of a doctor in Kolkata’s RG Kar Hospital and the rape of two minors in Maharashtra’s Badlapur.

In the Rewa case, a couple at a picnic spot near a temple was attacked.

The husband was tied to a tree and his wife was gang-raped. Her rapists filmed the attack and threatened to release the video online if the couple filed a police complaint. That was on October 21st.

The police filed a case the next day and some suspects were arrested.

The Indore rape case

Meanwhile, in Indore, a neurodivergent woman was sexually assaulted by a daily wage worker.

CCTV footage showed the woman wandering, half-naked and bleeding, in the city’s Sadar Bazaar area around 3.45am. The police, acting more hastily in this case, reviewed the footage and discovered that she had been approached hours earlier by the worker, now identified as Sonu.

Footage shows Sonu driving the woman to a waste treatment facility less than an hour before she was found. Police later said Sonu confessed to the rape.

Congress attacks BJP for double rape

After the Indore rape, state Congress chief Jitu Patwari hit out at the ruling BJP on X.

“The daughter is naked on the road (while) the chief minister is busy at an event,” he said, taking a swipe at the Ladli Behna Yojna, a women’s welfare initiative launched by Yadav’s predecessor Shivraj Chouhan, which she was credited with helping the BJP win last year’s Assembly elections.

Mr Patwari also compared the state in which the Indore woman was found to the undressing of Draupadi in the Hindu epic Mahabharata, asking, “Can’t the Chief Minister who considers himself ‘God’ see the undressing of Draupadi?” “I am angry and worried about the situation of our daughters. The crimes against our daughters are not stopping but the Chief Minister is turning a blind eye.”

Responding to the state government, minister Narendra Shivaji Patel pointed out that the accused – in the Indore case – has been arrested and underlined the BJP’s commitment to handle such matters sensitively. “The law will teach a lesson to the accused…they will not be spared.”

Mr. Patel also said that the BJP government is prioritizing the welfare of neurodivergent individuals, with the Department of Justice and Social Welfare involved in supporting them. “Irrespective of the city, the department fulfills its responsibilities diligently,” he claimed.

In the Ujjain rape case, the minor girl was denied help by hundreds of people.

2023 Ujjain rape case

The Rewa and Indore sexual assault cases have brought attention back to Madhya Pradesh after a gruesome incident in Ujjain in September last year. A minor girl was raped and left bleeding in the streets and went door to door asking for help, only to be turned away by heartless citizens.

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For two hours, she was ignored by more than 500 homes and restaurants, as well as officials at a toll booth, until a temple priest saw her and rushed her to a hospital and called the police.

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