India: NY Times Blog report on cases of sexual violence against women during the rioting in Muzaffarnagar, UP

India Ink / September 30, 2013, 10:23
A Village in Muzaffarnagar Recounts Rapes and Murder
By PAMPOSH RAINA

A burned room inside a house in Lisarh village of Muzaffarnagar district, Uttar Pradesh.

KANDHLA and LISARH, Uttar Pradesh—More than three weeks after deadly sectarian violence broke out in the Muzaffarnagar district of the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, cases of sexual violence against women during the rioting are beginning to surface. Only five such complaints have been taken up by the police so far.

“Three cases of rape and two cases of molestation from Fugana village are being investigated. We received information about these just two days ago,” said Kalpana Saxena, a superintendent of the police in Muzaffarnagar district, in a phone interview on Sunday.

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