Re: Women are not safe in India…statistics
The Indian state justice, or rather lack of it.
Violence against women
Despite the efforts of women’s rights advocates to address the widespread problem of violence in the home, India still lacked comprehensive legislation addressing domestic violence. The government failed to submit overdue periodic reports to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. Impunity continued for most perpetrators of widespread rape and killing in Gujarat in 2002. During the communal violence Muslim women were specifically targeted and several hundred women and girls were threatened, raped and killed; some were burned alive.
Bilqis Yakoob Rasool was five months pregnant when she was gang-raped and saw her three-year-old daughter killed by a mob in March 2002. She reported the rape and the killing of 14 relatives to the police. In January 2003 the police closed the case on the grounds that those responsible could not be found. A subsequent investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) found evidence of a police cover-up. In April, 12 people were arrested for rape and murder. In addition, six police officers were charged with involvement in the cover-up and two doctors were accused of distorting post-mortem investigations. In August the Supreme Court directed that the case be tried outside Gujarat. The trial was ongoing at the end of 2004.
http://www.amnestyusa.org/countries/india/document.do?id=ar&yr=2005