In 2012, the gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman in Delhi shocked India and the rest of the world, leading to huge street protests and changes to Indian law. Since that time, sadly, violence toward women in India hasn’t abated, with the country regularly ranked at the bottom of surveys about women’s public safety.
In the province of Kashmir, things are even more complicated because of a long-running dispute between India and Pakistan over the region, as well as religious division. In addition, the area has had problems with prosecutions of sexual assault. To top it off, police “are alleged to have bowed to pressure from people of influence to bury cases,” according to Reuters.
