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Nirbhaya case in West Bengal: Woman raped by kin, rod inserted in her private parts

In a shocking reminder of the Nirbhaya case, a woman in West Bengal was raped by her relative and an iron rod was inserted into her private parts.

The relative was angry over a land dispute with her family in Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal, reported Press Trust of India.


The woman was hospitalised shortly after the incident and her condition is said to be serious.

The incident happened on Saturday (20) night. The woman was asked to come out of the house and the accused told her he wanted to resolve the land dispute. He took her to a pond near her home and proceeded to rape her.

The accused was accompanied by one more person, but he did not rape her, the victim told police officials.

The woman’s husband was not home when the incident occurred.

This incident is similar to the 2012 Nirbhaya rape case in New Delhi where a woman was gang-raped inside a moving bus.

One of the accused inserted a rod in the 23-year-old’s private parts.

She was dumped on the streets 45 minutes later with severe internal injuries and died 13 days later in a Singapore hospital.

The aftermath of the crime saw the government overhauling laws governing such crimes, faster prosecutions in courts and harsher punishments for perpetrators.

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