Indiana is raped for the 2nd time and by the same men

São Paulo - An Indian student of 21 years old was the victim of a gang rape in Rohtak, which is in the state of Haryana and about 85 kilometers from the country's capital New Delhi. The authors reported the CNN and the British newspaper The Guardian, would be the same men who raped her in 2013.

The case, which again caused an uproar in India, happened last week. The victim, whose name was not disclosed by the authorities, was kidnapped as he left college and was drugged by the group of five men. They raped her and left her unconscious in a local park. She was found and taken to hospital where he is recovering from injuries.

But the story of the rape of this young woman brought up other scary details. According to the British publication, the victim identified the authors and two of them are responsible for her rape years ago in Bhiwani, a town of Rohtak. At the time she spent four days and raped.

Escaped with his life, he sought the authorities and filed a complaint. His tormentors were arrested, but released on bail in June last year and still waiting for the trial for the crime of 2013. Since then, the victim and his family had been the target of threats and moved to Rohtak in trying to live in peace. That hope, however, proved unsuccessful.

The police is now in the streets to find and arrest these men.

Violence against women in India

rape cases are frequent in India and experts they see this sad phenomenon as the result of an environment that treats women and girls as a source of exploitation, regardless of their ages.

According to an NGO that monitors these cases, whose directors were interviewed by the site International Business Times (IBI Times), 644 rapes evaluated in Mumbai, three-quarters of the victims were under 18. And 91% of them, the rapist was someone's social or family circle of girls.

Nationally, the figures are also shocking. A recent study by the Indian agency to combat crime revealed that 310,000 women have suffered such violence only in 2014. According to figures released by CNN, every 22 minutes a woman is rape victim somewhere in the country.

Dalit, a vulnerable caste

The young rape in Rohtak was part of the caste "Dalit", also known as "untouchable". Discrimination of people into castes was banned in India for over five decades. However, social practice remains.

Treated with inferiority, members of this caste are easy prey for violent crime and the situation is even more delicate for women.

According to the International Dalit Solidarity Network (IDSN), an international organization that aims to act on behalf of the basic rights of these people, there are now 80 million women "dalits" in India. A survey conducted by the entity with a group of 500 of them revealed that at least 43% lived situation of domestic violence and 23% had been raped.

The case garnered comparisons to another rape that shocked the country in late April and that culminated in the death of the victim, identified as Jisha. Also part of this caste, she was 30 years old, was almost graduating from law school and was found dead outside of his raped and stabbed home.