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| India police arrest main suspect after teen raped, burned alive |
| 2018-05-07 |
[DAWN] Indian police on said Sunday they have tossed in the clinkDon't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! the main suspect in the gang rape and gruesome murder of a teenage girl, in the latest of several high-profile sexual assault cases in the country. The local village chief has also been detained while the 16-year-old victim's family have been given special police protection. Dhanu Bhuiyan was found at a relative's house where he was hiding after he and accomplices allegedly burned the girl alive Friday in a remote district of the eastern state of Jharkhand. Police said Bhuiyan became enraged after the local village council ordered him to do 100 sit-ups and pay a Rs50,000 fine for the victim's gang rape. Bhuiyan and his accomplices allegedly attacked the girl's parents before setting their house on fire with the girl inside. "The main suspect has been arrested from a relative's place where he was hiding. We have also set up a medical board which will conduct the (victim's) post-mortem [examination]," police Inspector General Shambhu Thakur told AFP. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 But sit-ups? Someone ought to go in there and introduce them to the concept of the punishment fitting the crime. Of course, maybe they already know that and this is what they came up with . . . . |
| Posted by: gorb 2018-05-07 12:22 |
| #2 Gorb: Justice System? What Justice System? The location was a remote village close to the Bangladesh border. I can assure you that most of the people including the village elders are backwards and mostly illiterate. The only authority in these villages are the elders. Sure, there's a traveling constable that comes through every few weeks. Big deal. |
| Posted by: Slusotle Lumplump9028 2018-05-07 08:48 |
| #1 I get the feeling the justice system doesn't really get it yet. |
| Posted by: gorb 2018-05-07 00:52 |