" Two unidentified men in Surat on Sunday threw acid at one of the witnesses in the rape case against the self-styled godman Asaram, police said. This is a third attack targeting a witness in the rape cases against Asaram and his son. “A witness in the rape case against Asaram has suffered an acid attack by two men in Vesu area,” Deputy Commissioner of Police Shobha Bhutda told PTI. “The victim has been identified as Dinesh Bhavchandani (39) who has given a statement against Asaram in the case. The incident took place when Mr. Bhavchandani was riding to his house near Vesu Royal Residency.
"The systematic use of gang-rape as a weapon occurred in the Surat riots after the Babri Masjid demolition, and an ugly innovation was the videotaping of the gang-rapes. This was not a case of some random bystander filming the attacks, but a meticulously-planned spectacle with the venues flood-lit despite the fact that electric wires to the rest of the neighbourhood had been cut [1]. According to Praful Bidwai, Modi was the mastermind of the unspeakable atrocities against women in the 1992 Surat riots [2]. Modi is pictured there with Advani in their wake [3].
"...more startling revelations about Asaram's Modus Operandi are out in open....Now a former aide of Asaram - Amrut Prajapati spills the beans on how Asaram selected his victims..."
"The RSS supremo Mohan Bhagwat (or to call him out in the way he is referred to in the Sangh – Sarsanghchalak Param Pujya Shri Mohan-ji Bhagwat-ji) has now joined the pavilion of eminent Bharatiya moustachioed misogynists. In a breathtakingly revealing statement, he has told us that rapes happen in India, not in Bharat.
'The Criminal Investigation Department in its charge sheet against former minister and BJP MLA H Halappa has stated that the two laboratory analyses have confirmed the charges of the victim that she was raped by Halappa. These reports have come as a conclusive evidence besides her oral complaint to the police. Deccan Herald has obtained a copy of the charge sheet from the CID under the Right to Information Act. The CID had filed the charge sheet against Halappa in the Shimoga JMFC last month alleging that he had raped Chandravati, wife of Venkatesh Murthy of Shimoga on November 27, 2009.
"A BJP leader from Ajnala, Ashok Taneja, was on Wednesday booked by the police for allegedly raping his 20-year-old daughter for the past eight years. A university student, his daughter has alleged in her complaint that her father has been sexually assaulting her for the past eight years and even threatened to kill her if she disclosed the matter to anyone. The victim has stated in her complaint that she finally mustered enough courage to tell her mother. Her maternal family living in Amritsar then came to know about the alleged rape of the girl, said the police.
"...The specific targeting of women, as part of a conscious strategy to terrorise the Muslim population of Gujarat, also particularly c ncerned the panellists. According to Rhonda, sexual violence played a fundamental role and was used “as an engine of the mobilisation of hatred and destruction.” The scale and brutality of the sexual violence unleashed upon women was new, or felt as if it was new, to the panellists who could not have been prepared for the testimonies they heard even though they were aware of the centrality of this method in the violence of 2002..."
