India gang-rape: Police officers accused after low-caste teenage girls are attacked, killed and hung from a tree A A A Families of the girls said the police were shielding the attackers and had refused to investigate the case when they reported that the teenagers had disappeared

Not a big news

Yes its true..FIR no doubt was registered late..but rapid action taken and 4 out o 7 are arrested and are behind the bars...its sad and shocking

Yes Very sad and cruel...

Article 15 of the Indian constitution makes it illegal to discriminate based on caste and there have been numerous other government sponsored initiatives to try to curb the problem. It has been almost a hundred years since then and yet after reading stories like this I am not sure how much progress has been made. Police officers are still often said to act slower, if at all, in cases involving Dalits. What was done to these young girls (14 & 15) is monstrous and inhumane, I can only hope that with pressure coming from above things will change for the better, I am skeptical however ... Lasting change comes from the ground up, not the other way around.

Very Very sad that things like this still happening in the world !

indian villagers are psycho specially in north india up,mp,raj,hr

What does this country mean by 'caste' as citizens of the same country

Lynched that's mild, I will suggest they tie them to moving vehicles and drag them around the street.

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/98395/caste

...i hate UP...dirtiest n deadliest state...none of the officials are bothered instead they r protecting those rascals

bloody bastards must be killed inch by inch.....let me knw wo is the PM of UP...y that idiot is placed in dat position......f***ing goverment....islamic law must been implemented here

What I am saying is that as a citizen everyone should be equal whether rich or poor. If contrary, it is a jungle.

(They) went full retard? Man, NEVER go full retard. ... On a more serious note, the rapid escalation of this all is worrying. Most especially the case involving the police ...

You are familiar with the phenomenon of copycat killing, no? It is similar I think ... Monkey see, monkey do

I think it is simpler than that. It is a hate crime, but not necessarily in the way you might think it is, dalits are easier targets and there is less chance of a proper investigation after so it seems to me to be of secondary significance and more a matter of convenience. Men are more difficult targets for murder but not really by much if you are in a group and they are obviously working in groups but no male dalits are being targeted for murder. That women are being targeted exclusively seems telling to me as much as the brutality with which they are being murdered. It is a terror tactic, sure it affects dalits as a whole but it affects women specifically, regardless of the caste.

But that is the whole point, the "gruesome fanfare". Brutality and terror is the language of hate ... Desecrating and displaying the body inspires more terror and so they do it that way.

i agree. Not much progress at all. The woman who died after being gang raped on the bus is horrible. The under aged guy got 5 years i think. His 17. Thats not under aged. Thats a man. The rest got the death penalty. One actually asked for it... I understand mob justice . As cruel as mob justice is, its the only thing that works. India should go mob justice like South Africa.

It starts with "Eve teasing", it is like sexual harassment, society completely ignores it, the perpetrators are emboldened and the objectification of women is further entrenched ... The problem with mob justice is the burden of proof, the threshold is too low, often resulting in the wrong person being attacked. Also for it to happen you need a strong will to do something by the community, the community in the province in question is very divided over this an many other issues, I doubt they could unite enough for it.

so sad