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A 38-YEAR-old woman was allegedly gang-raped at the weekend in a northern Indian state whose government is under fire over a string of sexual attacks, police said today.
The woman had gone out shopping for medicine on Friday night when three men lured her to an under-construction house and allegedly attacked her in Uttar Pradesh state, a senior police officer said.
Arrests
“Two of the three accused have been arrested,” senior superintendent LR Kumar told AFP. “We are on a look out for the third offender.”
The woman lodged a complaint over the attack with police at the weekend in the town of Bisauli, Badaun district.
Badaun is the same district where two girls, aged 12 and 14, were gang-raped and lynched late last month in an attack that triggered uproar over perceived lawlessness in the state.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, under pressure to resign over the assaults, acknowledged that rapes were a growing problem in his state and his government would work to turn the situation around.
“I firmly believe that the government must sincerely work to make sure such incidents do not happen. The government should be sensitive about these issues,” Yadav told AFP in an interview on Sunday.
The families of the two lynched girls refused to cut their bodies down in protest at alleged police inaction, which they said was because they were from a lower caste.
Since then, the media has highlighted a string of other alleged rapes and hangings of women in Uttar Pradesh.
The attacks have sparked protests in the state capital Lucknow and in New Delhi, while women’s groups have demanded that Yadav resign.
Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh, with more than 200 million people, is India’s most populous state and has long been plagued by poverty, communal violence and caste-based political divisions.
India last year brought in tougher laws against sexual offenders after the fatal gang-rape of a student in Delhi in December 2012, an attack that drew international condemnation of India’s treatment of women.
But the legislation, which was also designed to educate and sensitise police on rape cases, has failed to stem the tide of violence.
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Thanks google. Thanks for starting a world where people walk around recording each other. I will never wear these.
Should read.
“Silly Virgin Atlantic press release, amounts to vast amounts of free advertising”
Minority Report meets Skynet
Time for infrared necklaces for everyone so you can protect your identity.
Welcome to the world of tomorrow
I’m a tech geek at heart and this technology is really cool BUT people have to be realistic and open there eyes, this is potentially one of the worst things to ever hit the self’s, privacy as we know it will be gone and our kids will never no what it is! Once its gone it will never come back, Scott Barry style
Fyi tech geeks tend to have good grammar and spelling.
The thing I’m dreading most about this technology is women walking down the street behind me checking out my sweet little ass.
It gives them the capability to perv on me when I’m not even around!
Yeah because you can’t walk around recording people on you phone this last ten years.
Good one Adebayo.
Big difference in phone recording and these glasses. A few examples, your on a beach with your toddler and some stranger starts pointing a phone at your child filming them. If your a vigilant parent your going to notice this and one way or another put a stop to it and make other people aware of a potential pervert in your midst. Beach full of people lots wearing glasses any sicko can now do this unnoticed. Burgler scoping out your house standing with phone risk of being seen. Burgler walking slowly along with glasses on no problem. Taking cash out at an ATM using card in shop etc person with glasses good chance they can zoom in on your pin. Seriously dangerous piecof technology in the wrong hands and that’s aside from everyday invasions of privacy.
Soz, only seeing this now as you didn’t hit reply. Walking around with a phone outstretched pointing in someones face since 2004 isnt something I have seen too much of, in day to day life, like transactions at a till etc but hey maybe I haven’t been paying attention.
PIN numbers are so last year love! We have fingerprint scanners here in Brazil now no need for a PIN number so don’t be worrying!
*On all ATM machines
I foresee (sorry!) terrible eye problems down the line if these become the norm.
I remember these from ‘Beyond 2000′!
Welcome to the future. Bare in mind that the airlines have been the test bed for realtime transactions and date analysis since the 1960′s.
I like Virgin Atlantic. I flew here via London from SFO. Treated like a human being. Wonderful staff. Comfortable seats (and I’m 6’4″, 210lbs). The other airlines should pay attention to VA. They know how to treat people.
The glasses? Couldn’t care less. The terminal is plastered with cameras anyway.
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