{"id":22534,"date":"2013-01-13T23:30:15","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T05:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drishtikone.com\/?p=22534"},"modified":"2013-01-13T23:30:15","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T05:30:15","slug":"woman-gangraped-killed-and-hung-from-a-tree-in-bihar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2013\/01\/woman-gangraped-killed-and-hung-from-a-tree-in-bihar\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman Gangraped, Killed and Hung from a Tree in Bihar"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>I know a lot has been written about rape and rape cases.\u00a0 Jyoti\u2019s rape itself was a demonstration of mind-numbing inhuman traits\u2026 Worse than animals.\u00a0 Now, this another one \u2013 close on heels of so many others, is equally baffling.\u00a0 Do we not have human beings living in India anymore?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a shocking incident, a woman who got down from a Delhi-bound train in Bhagalpur district, was gangraped, killed and her semi-naked body hung from a tree in a mango orchard in Kahalgaon.<\/p>\n<p>The woman, along with her 10-year-old son and two relatives, was on way to Delhi from Alipurdwar to join her husband who works as a labourer in Delhi. They were travelling by the Brahmaputra Mail.\u00a0 Police said the 32-year-old victim was dragged to the mango orchard and gangraped by unidentified persons after she alighted from the train between Vikramshila and Kahalgaon stations.<\/p>\n<p>She was strangled to death and her body hung from a tree late Saturday night. Police recovered the body on Sunday and sent it to the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College and Hospital in Bhagalpur for postmortem.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is no justification for this!\u00a0 How can someone drag a helpless woman, collectively rape her and hang her on a tree after killing her?\u00a0 What kind of mindset can do that?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/India-news\/Bihar\/Woman-gangraped-killed-body-hung-from-tree-in-Bihar\/Article1-989311.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"font-size: 1em\">Related articles from External Sources<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\" style=\"margin: 0;padding: 0;overflow: hidden\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/article\/india\/woman-allegedly-gang-raped-murdered-body-hung-from-tree-316864\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding: 0;margin: 0;border: 0;width: 80px\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/137824303_80_80.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/article\/india\/woman-allegedly-gang-raped-murdered-body-hung-from-tree-316864\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Woman allegedly gang-raped, murdered, body hung from tree<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/article\/india\/bihar-woman-allegedly-gang-raped-murdered-body-hung-from-tree-316864\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding: 0;margin: 0;border: 0;width: 80px\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/137919683_80_80.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/article\/india\/bihar-woman-allegedly-gang-raped-murdered-body-hung-from-tree-316864\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bihar: Woman allegedly gang-raped, murdered, body hung from tree<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ibnlive.in.com\/news\/bihar-men-gangrape-woman-strangulate-her-to-death-hang-her-body-from-tree\/315563-3-232.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding: 0;margin: 0;border: 0;width: 80px\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/137837829_80_80.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ibnlive.in.com\/news\/bihar-men-gangrape-woman-strangulate-her-to-death-hang-her-body-from-tree\/315563-3-232.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bihar: Men gangrape woman, strangulate her to death<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/states\/other-states\/woman-found-hanging-from-tree-in-bihar\/article4305081.ece\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding: 0;margin: 0;border: 0;width: 80px\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/137859134_80_80.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/states\/other-states\/woman-found-hanging-from-tree-in-bihar\/article4305081.ece\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Woman found hanging from tree in Bihar<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/r.zemanta.com\/?u=http%3A\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2013\/jan\/12\/anger-india-unprecedented-ian-jack&amp;a=137596094&amp;rid=93323394-402e-4c5d-b9b4-a04d5f42f87f&amp;e=b81d75c181cbd71bf9f6ab42ae183407\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding: 0;margin: 0;border: 0;width: 80px\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/137596094_80_80.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/r.zemanta.com\/?u=http%3A\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2013\/jan\/12\/anger-india-unprecedented-ian-jack&amp;a=137596094&amp;rid=93323394-402e-4c5d-b9b4-a04d5f42f87f&amp;e=b81d75c181cbd71bf9f6ab42ae183407\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">India\u2019s current outpouring of anger is unprecedented. 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