{"id":44567,"date":"2018-01-15T23:55:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T18:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=44567"},"modified":"2018-01-15T23:55:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T18:55:29","slug":"missing-dalit-teen-gang-raped-killed-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=44567","title":{"rendered":"Missing Dalit teen gang-raped, killed in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New Delhi, Jan. 15 (TNS):<\/strong> A 15-year-old Dalit girl who went missing last week in the Indian state of Haryana has been found dead near a canal in Jind district, nearly 100km west of the capital New Delhi, Indian media reported on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors say she was gang-raped and her body was mutilated, bringing the memory of the 2012 brutal gang rape of a medical student in New Delhi whose death had triggered nation-wide protests.<\/p>\n<p>Police are questioning several people in connection with the case.<\/p>\n<p>The case has brought the spotlight back on to what women&#8217;s groups call a rape epidemic in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The 2012 gang rape had drawn international attention to violence against women and forced the government to introduce tougher anti-rape laws, including the death penalty.<\/p>\n<p>However, brutal sexual attacks against women and children continue to be reported across the country.<\/p>\n<p>According to National Crime Records Bureau data for 2016, incidents of rape of children in India increased by over 82 percent compared with 2015.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, police in India registered 38,947 rape complaints, an increase of 12.4 percent from the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Jan. 15 (TNS): A 15-year-old Dalit girl who went missing last week in the Indian state of Haryana has been found dead near a canal in Jind district, nearly 100km west of the capital New Delhi, Indian media reported on Monday. Doctors say she was gang-raped and her body was mutilated, bringing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,736],"tags":[932,172],"class_list":["post-44567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-new-delhi","tag-international","tag-new-dehli"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44569,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44567\/revisions\/44569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}