There are tens of thousands of rapes in India every year and by the way, every rap causes a stir, but there are also many cases where it seems that the society has completely lost its senses. A similar heartbreaking incident took place in Delhi, where police arrested a 30-year-old man accused of raping and torturing an 86-year-old grandmother.
Swati Maliwal, head of the Delhi Commission for Women, told the BBC that an old woman was waiting for a milkman outside her house on Monday when a man came. He told them that the milkman was not coming today and at the same time said that he would take them to the place where the milk was being found.
The old woman trusted him and walked with him. According to Swati Maliwal, the man took the woman to a nearby farm, where he raped her. She kept crying and begging him to let her go. She even told him that she is same as his grandmother. But he refused, and when she resisted, he brutally tortured her.
Local villagers were passing by, when they heard screams they came to help and rescued her from the man. They later handed the attacker over to police. Swati Maliwal, who met the woman on Tuesday, described the meeting as "heartbreaking".
"She has full wrinkles on her hands. You are shocked when you hear what happened to her. She has wounds all over her face and body and she told me that there was bleeding from her vagina. She is in a state of shock.
Swati Maliwal demands that the attacker be sentenced to death, which she says is "not human". "I am writing to the Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court and the Lieutenant Governor of the city to have a fast-track hearing of the case and hang it in six months," she said.
Rape and sexual violence have been the focus of attention since December 2012, when a 23-year-old physiotherapy student was gang-raped on a moving bus in Delhi. She later died while undergoing treatment in Singapore. Four people involved in the heinous act were hanged in March. But despite a full focus on sex crimes, they continue to rise.
In the past few days, when India has been plagued by the Corona virus epidemic, there have been reports that the driver of an ambulance carrying a Code-19 patient raped her on the way. A 13-year-old girl was killed after being raped in a sugarcane field last month, and her father said her eyes were removed and her tongue was cut out.
