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India’s low-caste women raped to keep them “in their place”

India anti rape protestors

Chennai, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation Lower-caste Dalit women in northern India are targeted for rape by upper caste men who usually escape justice as survivors bow to pressure to drop their cases, researchers said this week. Only 10 per cent of 40 rape cases involving Dalit women and girls in Haryana state ended with the conviction […]