A man holds a placard during a "public outrage" rally held to draw attention to crimes against women, in New Delhi on April 29. (EPA-EFE Photo)PATNA, India: Indian police on Saturday arrested 14 people suspected of kidnapping, raping and burning to death a teenage girl, the latest in a rising wave of crimes against women in India despite a toughening of laws. District Magistrate Jitendera Singh said the accused abducted the girl from Chatra, a village in eastern Jharkhand state, while she was attending a wedding ceremony on Thursday. India has been shaken by a series of sexual assaults since 2012, when a student was gang-raped and murdered on a moving New Delhi bus. That attack galvanised a country where widespread violence against women had long been quietly accepted.

Source: Bangkok Post May 05, 2018 08:15 UTC