India rises against the rape at Kathua and Unnao

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Kolkata: Unnao and Kathua rape cases have made Indians take on to the streets to protest and demand justice in both the cases. In both incidents, either the the ruling party’s leaders where complicit in the crime or defending it. The inaction and unwilling attitude of the government to deliver justice made the citizens to hit the street. The brutality in Kathua gang rape and brutal murder of a child belonging to Jammu’s nomadic tribe Bakerwal shook the collective conscience of the society. Not just Bollywood, civil society but common people of Kolkata, Jaipur, Bhopal, Ranchi, Sikar and Giridih came forward to express their anger and outrage.

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