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India's Rape Scandal - Full Documentary · The Evolution of Evil - True Crime Stories

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  Speaker 1: This program contains mature content. Your discretion is advised.
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  Speaker 2: Another case which has shocked the niche. India has been
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  Speaker 2: experiencing a wave of shocking rape cases.
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  Speaker 3: There seems to be no end to the shock and horror,
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  Speaker 3: with brutal rapes being reported on a daily basis.
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  Speaker 2: The government has vowed zero tolerance, but dozens of politicians
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  Speaker 2: effacing charges of crimes against women, including nine recent rape cases.
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  Speaker 4: And the woman was raped and no case was registered
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  Speaker 4: despite her approaching the cops.
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  Speaker 2: And allegations of abuse and cover up keep surfacing. I
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  Speaker 2: traveled into India in March twenty twenty one, just before
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  Speaker 2: a lethal surgeon COVID I came to investigate two rape
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  Speaker 2: cases that had drawn police, politicians, and even the Indian
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  Speaker 2: Prime Minister into controversy. My destination was the state of
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  Speaker 2: Uttar Pradesh, home to more than two hundred million people.
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  Speaker 2: Oza Pradesh is the most popular state in India and
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  Speaker 2: the most electorally significant. It also holds a less impressive statistic.
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  Speaker 2: It has the second highest reportive number of rapes in
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  Speaker 2: the whole country. This is the woman behind one of
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  Speaker 2: the cases. She told us that she's been receiving death
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  Speaker 2: threats and is under twenty four to seven police protection,
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  Speaker 2: making it impossible to do an on camera interview with her.
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  Speaker 2: She's not been publicly identified, and we've agreed to call
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  Speaker 2: her Jai. The man she accused of rape is called
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  Speaker 2: Deep Singh Senga, then a powerful politician in India's ruling
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  Speaker 2: BJP party. He's now in prison for Jaya's rape but
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  Speaker 2: still has a loyal following with Peace Together. The story
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  Speaker 2: of what happened from court records and our own reporting
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  Speaker 2: on the ground. We're following some local guides. There are
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  Speaker 2: motorbikes up here and we're trying to get into Jaya's village.
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  Speaker 2: Jaya and her family are from Unau, the area called
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  Speaker 2: Deep Senger represented in the state legislative Assembly. They lived
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  Speaker 2: in the same village and were neighbors. Somehow, word of
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  Speaker 2: our visit had reached the village. Even though sengirls in prison,
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  Speaker 2: he and his family still control the area. They explained
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  Speaker 2: they didn't want anyone associated with Senga or his family
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  Speaker 2: to see them with foreign journalists. You're scared of being killed.
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  Speaker 5: He will not forgive anyone if someone's against him against
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  Speaker 5: collapsing single right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, someone who was known Senga for years, agreed to
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  Speaker 2: speak to me as long as we concealed his identity.
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  Speaker 5: Is kann Galata system.
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  Speaker 6: Or wo us.
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  Speaker 5: Charity and more Chiusi the usa IF and Luko kidnapper
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  Speaker 5: us kik Lago.
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  Speaker 2: In June twenty seventeen, Jaya, then sixteen years old, was
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  Speaker 2: asked to visit Senga's house for a job interview. In
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  Speaker 2: her court testament, she described what happened next.
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  Speaker 7: The door opened, we reached the courtyard, Senga caught me
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  Speaker 7: by my hand and dragged me to his room. He
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  Speaker 7: stripped me of my clothes. He closed the door and
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  Speaker 7: subjected me to his sexual assault. When I abhaused, he said,
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  Speaker 7: if you.
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  Speaker 2: Raise a voice, I will murder you, Jaya has testified.
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  Speaker 2: Initially she told only her aunt, but afterwards some men
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  Speaker 2: who worked with Senga went looking for her. Just days
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  Speaker 2: after Jaya was raped by Sengar, she was kidnapped from
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  Speaker 2: her village, bundled into a car and brought here to
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  Speaker 2: the town of Campoor, where she says she was held
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  Speaker 2: in the house and gang raped for over a week.
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  Speaker 2: In testimony and public statements, Jaya described what she said
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  Speaker 2: happened to her.
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  Speaker 7: And then took turns to rape me. I recognized two
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  Speaker 7: of them as Senger's men. They kept me on sedatives.
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  Speaker 7: Once I even tried to flee, but I was got
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  Speaker 7: and sedated again.
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  Speaker 2: After eight days, police found Jaya alone in a house.
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  Speaker 2: They took down the names of the men she said
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  Speaker 2: kidnapped and raped her, but they refused to register her
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  Speaker 2: rape allegation against Senga.
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  Speaker 3: People are petrified of Kudip Senger. He is exceptionally strong,
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  Speaker 3: locally financially, politically, backed by goons, by thugs.
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  Speaker 2: Journalist Ashwarya Aya has investigated the rape case and other
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  Speaker 2: criminal allegations against Senga going back years.
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  Speaker 3: Her allegation is that she tried to get a complaint
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  Speaker 3: to just sarn against Kudip Senger, but his name was
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  Speaker 3: repeatedly dropped.
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  Speaker 2: The Uta Pradesh Police did not respond to our requests
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  Speaker 2: for comment. A former head of the force told me
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  Speaker 2: the case reflects a disturbing trend of politicians interfering in
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  Speaker 2: police matters.
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  Speaker 8: They will promote a particular person, they will support him,
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  Speaker 8: they will get him appointed as the stress of his arm.
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  Speaker 8: That's why you see that this lady kept on running
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  Speaker 8: from pillar to post and nobody initially listened to her.
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  Speaker 9: Nobody tried to help her.
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  Speaker 2: Jaya wouldn't give up. After two months, she went to
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  Speaker 2: the state capital Lucknow, where the Chief Minister was holding
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  Speaker 2: an open meeting for people to present their concerns. The
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  Speaker 2: Chief Minister of whatever Bradesh is Yogi, a ditchinat oh
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  Speaker 2: Hindian nationalist, is also one of the most powerful men
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  Speaker 2: in the country. Within a year of becoming Chief Minister,
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  Speaker 2: he ordered the withdrawal of dozens of criminal cases against politicians.
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  Speaker 2: These cases included violence against Womendet is a senior member
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  Speaker 2: of the ruling b JP party and often touted as
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  Speaker 2: a future Indian Prime minister. Jaya told us she was
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  Speaker 2: able to meet him and he assured her that her
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  Speaker 2: allegations would be dealt with. He then asked her to leave.
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  Speaker 10: Who's don jiga is spokes.
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  Speaker 2: For some time. I. P. Singh was expelled from the
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  Speaker 2: BJP in twenty nineteen after calling its top leadership thugs.
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  Speaker 10: Victimti Apnpararti Mangrata please give me justice, mokumentary, please give
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  Speaker 10: me justice. Uh Jip Minister lekin un Nai Nahindiyagyam Juki
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  Speaker 10: singer Bijipika Amilita Bidhata Ourikaro Chief Ministers.
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  Speaker 2: Court documents show the Chief Minister's office passed Jaya's allegations
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  Speaker 2: to the police, but no action was taken. Meanwhile, Senga
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  Speaker 2: telephoned Jaya's uncle to pressure her to stay silent. I've
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  Speaker 2: been given a recording of one of these calls later
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  Speaker 2: used in evidence Yohua, but Jaya didn't drop the accusation.
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  Speaker 2: In April twenty eighteen, Jaya's father, Surrender, was attacked by
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  Speaker 2: a group of men he said were led by Senger
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  Speaker 2: brother attL Singh. A journalist filmed Surrender afterwards inside the
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  Speaker 2: police station.
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  Speaker 6: Put him.
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  Speaker 2: Instead of helping Surrender, local police officers arrested him, claiming
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  Speaker 2: he owned an illegal weapon. Phone records show that Senga
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  Speaker 2: spoke to the officers ten times during this period. Surrender
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  Speaker 2: suffered internal injuries and would later die. After the attack, Jaya,
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  Speaker 2: her mother, and sister went to the Chief Minister's residence.
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  Speaker 2: Jaya doused herself in kerosene.
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  Speaker 3: The guy title barn herself. She wanted media attention, She
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  Speaker 3: wanted someone to listen. The policeman in security can put
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  Speaker 3: blankets on her ensured that she wouldn't die. But I
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  Speaker 3: think that's when we all woke up.
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  Speaker 2: Until this moment, Jaya's case had received little publicity. Now
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  Speaker 2: there was a national outcry about it. Senger publicly confronted
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  Speaker 2: the allegations for the first time, do you want The
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  Speaker 2: controversy drew in India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has
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  Speaker 2: promised zero tolerance for rape. The Prime Minister ordered in
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  Speaker 2: federal detectives within days, called Deep Singh. Senga was arrested.
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  Speaker 2: It was ten months since Jaya first went to the police.
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  Speaker 2: He was later charged with rape and manslaughter. We asked
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  Speaker 2: Chief Minister Yogi Adcchinat for comment on how the case
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  Speaker 2: was handled, but he didn't respond publicly. He rejected criticisms
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  Speaker 2: that Senga had been protected.
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  Speaker 6: Sarkar or Kanon is maamble, mah JOVII is mamblem.
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  Speaker 2: A month before Jaya was due to give evidence in
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  Speaker 2: Senga's trial, there was a new development. Jaya, her two
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  Speaker 2: aunts and a lawyer were traveling to.
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  Speaker 6: Meeting that day.
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  Speaker 2: The police security detail protecting her wasn't with her. Jaya
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  Speaker 2: never reached her destination. Their car was rammed by a
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  Speaker 2: truck with blacked out plates.
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  Speaker 3: A rape survivor who suffered critical injuries in a car
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  Speaker 3: truck position, who's air lifted to New Delhi.
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  Speaker 2: Her two aunts and her lawyer died. Only Jaya would
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  Speaker 2: survive from prison. Senga denied he had anything to do.
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  Speaker 6: With the crash.
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  Speaker 9: Accident.
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  Speaker 6: My I see but one.
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  Speaker 2: India's Supreme Court ordered twenty four to seven police protection
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  Speaker 2: for Jia and moved Senga's trial from his home state
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  Speaker 2: to the capital, Delhi.
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  Speaker 6: I really had to be there.
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  Speaker 3: There was heavy security outside. The singer was brought in.
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  Speaker 3: He seemed scared. He was nervous about what the judge
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  Speaker 3: was going to say happening at that time. He didn't
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  Speaker 3: even know if the girl was going to survive or not.
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  Speaker 3: They set up a makeshift quote in hospital for her
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  Speaker 3: to give her statement, and the judge said that her
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  Speaker 3: destimony was unblemished, truthful and of sterling quality.
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  Speaker 8: This case came to the conclusion with the finding that
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  Speaker 8: they could leave singer had you been convicted for rape
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  Speaker 8: under three seventy six IBC.
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  Speaker 2: Senga received life in prison for Jaya's rape in ten
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  Speaker 2: years for manslaughter seven others, including two police officers, were
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  Speaker 2: also sent to prison for their roles in the killing
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  Speaker 2: of Jaya's father. The men charged with kidnapping and gang
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  Speaker 2: raping Jaya are still awaiting trial.
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  Speaker 3: It's incredible how strong willed this woman is to see
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  Speaker 3: death so clause, to see your family being consumed by
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  Speaker 3: a complaint that you were reasing, and to still be
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  Speaker 3: added how you are. I think that's why it's significant.
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  Speaker 3: It's a stunning, stunning story.
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  Speaker 2: Nine months later, another alarming rape case in the Hatress
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  Speaker 2: area of Uttar, Pradesh raised more allegations of political cover up.
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  Speaker 2: We're about to meet a journalist, Niddy Siesh, who's been
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  Speaker 2: investigating the Hatress alleged gang rape and the alleged cover ups,
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  Speaker 2: and she says she's got information to share with us.
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  Speaker 2: In September twenty twenty, she spotted tweets from a family
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  Speaker 2: asking for help because their nineteen year old daughter, Manisha
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  Speaker 2: vl Mickey, said she'd been raped by four neighbors.
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  Speaker 11: When we got there, there was zero press. Her mother
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  Speaker 11: and her aunt walked us to the crime scene and
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  Speaker 11: it was just a small clearing which, by the way,
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  Speaker 11: the police had not sealed.
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  Speaker 6: Right. It was opened completely.
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  Speaker 11: She just kept saying, something bad happened to my daughter,
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  Speaker 11: Something bad happened to my daughter, And she spoke about
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  Speaker 11: how she found her without any clothes.
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  Speaker 2: We traveled to Manisha's village. The Indian caste system is
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  Speaker 2: powerful here. Manisha's family is from a lower caste. The
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  Speaker 2: men she said raped her attackers an influential high caste
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  Speaker 2: who owned the majority of land here, and include many
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  Speaker 2: police officers and politicians, like the Chief Minister, Yogi A.
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  Speaker 6: Ditchenat.
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  Speaker 2: The parents of the men Manisha accused agreed to meet me.
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  Speaker 2: Their sons are in jail awaiting trial. They insisted that
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  Speaker 2: Manisha hadn't been raped, but that her own family had
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  Speaker 2: beaten her up as punishment for having a relationship with
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  Speaker 2: one of the accused men, Nacao. After Manicia's mother found her,
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  Speaker 2: she was taken to the local police station to report
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  Speaker 2: the attack. She had been strangled and her spinal cord
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  Speaker 2: was damaged. A journalist happened to be there and filmed her.
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  Speaker 6: Huh.
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  Speaker 2: In their report, the police noted she'd been violently assaulted,
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  Speaker 2: but did not include her allegation of rape. Eventually, Minisha
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  Speaker 2: was taken to Aligar Hospital Militia's cousin was.
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  Speaker 6: With her, largely already happy.
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  Speaker 2: Three days later, as the story began to get out,
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  Speaker 2: Militia was filmed by another local journalist.
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  Speaker 11: The hospital has not asked her if there's been a
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  Speaker 11: sexual assault, No rape examination is conducted. It crucial evidence
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  Speaker 11: is lost. So according to the family, the doctors tell
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  Speaker 11: them that till they have a police complained which registers rape,
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  Speaker 11: they're not going to do anything about it.
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  Speaker 2: The family went back to the police to try to
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  Speaker 2: get them to record the rape allegation.
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  Speaker 12: She says, see you tiny antin with Millennium government, Posi
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  Speaker 12: community gave alway wore or yogyadnatri Akio wore.
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  Speaker 2: No one from the police would respond to our questions
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  Speaker 2: about how the case was handled, but according to official records,
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't until eight days later, as media reporting was
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  Speaker 2: gaining pace, that the police fully registered the rape allegations
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  Speaker 2: and asked doctors at the hospital to gather forensic evidence.
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  Speaker 11: They don't find semen, but again it's been too long
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  Speaker 11: after the incident.
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  Speaker 6: One of the doctors we.
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  Speaker 11: Spoke to said there were quite a few people among
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  Speaker 11: them the medical staff who were asked to sign a
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  Speaker 11: statement saying she did not look ripped.
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  Speaker 2: We spoke to several doctors involved in monocious treatment, but
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  Speaker 2: they were too frightened to appear on camera. They told
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  Speaker 2: us police and local officials asked them to downplay any
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  Speaker 2: evidence of rape. By now, Malicia's case had captured the
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  Speaker 2: attention of Chandraseca Azad, who leads the bim Army, which
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  Speaker 2: fights for lower caste.
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  Speaker 5: Rights, policed the way king Napolis people in jos Cargat, Obama.
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  Speaker 2: Chandrasecca recorded his journey to Hattras, swapping vehicles to dodge
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  Speaker 2: the police.
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  Speaker 5: Waham policy gave you the film by a motorcycle police
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  Speaker 5: kare Po, but.
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  Speaker 2: He reached Miniesia and began filming.
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  Speaker 5: There Puska.
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  Speaker 2: Fearing Minisha would not survive, the family had a video
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  Speaker 2: statement from her maid that could be used in court.
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  Speaker 6: For here.
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  Speaker 11: By then, she had suffered paralysis on all four of
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  Speaker 11: her limbs. She was having breathing difficulties. There were protests
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  Speaker 11: outside the hospital, and on twenty ninth she passed to.
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  Speaker 2: That evening, journalists followed the police taking Mansia's body back
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  Speaker 2: to her village. The family's request for an independent post
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  Speaker 2: mortem were ignored.
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  Speaker 6: I present my whole I am learning.
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  Speaker 2: Milicia's cousin told me. The family were confined to their
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  Speaker 2: homes and in the dead of night, the police cremated
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  Speaker 2: her body.
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  Speaker 6: In the area.
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  Speaker 2: In the aftermath, one of Uta Pradesha's most senior police
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  Speaker 2: officers denied Minesha had ever.
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  Speaker 6: Been raped Jose.
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  Speaker 2: Who's Some bj P politicians also publicly denied any rate
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  Speaker 2: that happened.
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  Speaker 12: Sanity.
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  Speaker 2: The day after Manisha was cremated, her family was visited
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  Speaker 2: by the district magistrate, who encouraged them to withdraw the
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  Speaker 2: rape allegation. Raj filmed him.
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  Speaker 9: The media.
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  Speaker 6: Have you or it's it's kids on each year, it's
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  Speaker 6: so Hindu.
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  Speaker 10: May.
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  Speaker 2: The video went viral and yield more unrest around the case.
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  Speaker 2: Chief Minister Yogi A. Ditchinat blamed the outrage on opposition
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  Speaker 2: parties and an international conspiracy to undermine him. The trial
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  Speaker 2: of the four men Manisha accused has been delayed by COVID.
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  Speaker 2: Their lawyer claims Manisha's video statements about the rape were fabricated.
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  Speaker 2: There have been allegations that the Chief Minister, Yogi A.
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  Speaker 2: Dicchinat's office has been trying to cover up this gang rape,
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  Speaker 2: but he's been trying to protect the accused?
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  Speaker 9: Is Yogi a kabhib a Pradhiko, Protect Hikar Kabibi a Pradiko.
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  Speaker 2: Cases like Minisias and Jayas continue to polarize India, pitting
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  Speaker 2: politics against family search for justice. One of India's most
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  Speaker 2: respected and senior legal figures told me these cases should
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  Speaker 2: be a wake up call for more accountability when it
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  Speaker 2: comes to violence against women.
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  Speaker 4: It's completely inexplicable. Why should anybody you know, not only
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  Speaker 4: the Prime Minister or not only the Chief minister. Why
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  Speaker 4: should anybody you know remain silent when something like this happens.
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  Speaker 4: They should speak out. Doesn't matter who the perpetrator is,
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  Speaker 4: the government, the state, the police machinery. Everybody should come
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  Speaker 4: out in the open and say that this is wrong.
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