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05-04-2016, 04:47 AM
CHENNAI, India: Hundreds of people in southern India took to the streets on Tuesday to demand a fast investigation into the rape, murder and mutilation of a woman whose death has drawn comparisons with a 2012 gang rape that forced a change to the law.
Indian police are looking for a suspect seen leaving the home of the 30-year-old woman who suffered multiple stab wounds and had her intestines pulled out during the attack in Ernakulam, Kerala, investigators said.
Protesters gathered outside the hospital where the woman’s body had been taken, holding placards demanding justice for the victim, who belonged to the Dalit group, traditionally the lowest ranked in India’s caste system.
"Neighbours have come forward and said they heard **ises and saw a man leaving the woman’s home on April 28, the day of the murder.
It appears to be someone she knew and we are following the leads we have," district police chief Yatish Chandra told Thomson Reuters Foundation.
The brutality of the case has evoked comparisons in the local media with the gang rape and torture of a 23-year-old woman in New Delhi in 2012, which sparked nationwide protests.
India toughened its anti-rape laws in response to the outcry following the 2012 attack, but rape, acid attacks, domestic violence and molestation are common.
Last year India passed legislation lowering the age at which someone can be tried for rape and other crimes to 16. Women’s rights and violence against women has been under the spotlight since the 2012 killing and last week’s attack underlines the particular vulnerability of women from lower castes, activists and experts said.
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Indian police are looking for a suspect seen leaving the home of the 30-year-old woman who suffered multiple stab wounds and had her intestines pulled out during the attack in Ernakulam, Kerala, investigators said.
Protesters gathered outside the hospital where the woman’s body had been taken, holding placards demanding justice for the victim, who belonged to the Dalit group, traditionally the lowest ranked in India’s caste system.
"Neighbours have come forward and said they heard **ises and saw a man leaving the woman’s home on April 28, the day of the murder.
It appears to be someone she knew and we are following the leads we have," district police chief Yatish Chandra told Thomson Reuters Foundation.
The brutality of the case has evoked comparisons in the local media with the gang rape and torture of a 23-year-old woman in New Delhi in 2012, which sparked nationwide protests.
India toughened its anti-rape laws in response to the outcry following the 2012 attack, but rape, acid attacks, domestic violence and molestation are common.
Last year India passed legislation lowering the age at which someone can be tried for rape and other crimes to 16. Women’s rights and violence against women has been under the spotlight since the 2012 killing and last week’s attack underlines the particular vulnerability of women from lower castes, activists and experts said.
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