Parbat, Aug 12. Parbat district police have arrested a man on the charge of raping his daughter. The man’s younger brother was also arrested on the charge of committing the same heinous act.

The 44-year-old man and his 36-year-old brother were arrested on the basis of a complaint filed by the son i.e. the elder brother of the rape survivor. The act was committed within the past four months, police said.

Further investigation into the incident is underway while a case of incest rape has already been registered at the District Court, police inspector Rajendra Adhikari said. RSS/File Photo

KATHMANDU, June 27 : Incidents of rape has been reported to be increasing in the district as of late. More than 70 per cent of the cases registered at the local authorities are related to rape, says data from the district attorney office.

Of the 152 criminal cases registered at the office and through the district administration office in the current fiscal year, 70 per cent were related to rape. The number of cases has also gone up due to the information shared about the existing laws at the local level and subsequent reporting, said district attorney Pramod Bhattarai. However, the incidents of divorce have gone down in the period.

Organized crime has also been found to have increased during the period. Likewise, the cases of polygamy have also gone down. Due to rising legal awareness, the number of people coming to seek justice is on the rise, Bhattarai said.RSS/PHOTO: dhakatribune.com

KATHMANDU, Aug 2: The spate of ‘attempted rape’ case has increased across the country over time.

According to the information provided by the central police headquarters, the number of cases related to ‘attempted rape’ has increased in 2075/76 in comparison to 2074/75 BS.

Total 1,480 cases were registered in the fiscal 2074/75 BS which rose to 1,873 in 2075/76 BS.

It was 1,137 cases in the fiscal year 2073/74 BS.

Nepal Police Spokesperson and Deputy Superintendent of Police (DIG) Biswo Raj Pokharel said the number of such cases has apparently increased with the growing reporting of the cases to the police of late.

Attempted rape is a sexual assault in which rape is the motive for the assault.

Pokharel further shared the attempted rape cases are mostly occurred from own relatives, known people and neighbors. RSS

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KATHMANDU, April 2: “Rape is a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear,” this is what well- known US feminist Susan Brownmiller argues in her groundbreaking book ‘Against Our Will: Women, Men and Rape’, drawing both acclamation and criticism.

As we know that in the recent days, the cases of rape and sexual violence against women are making media headlines almost every day, creating fear among the girls, women and especially those parents who have daughters.

On the one hand campaigns, advocacy and activisms for girl/women rights are going on while on the other hand incidents of rape and sexual harassments continue to shock the Nepalese society.

In this backdrop, women rights activists, academicians and students gathered at the Orchid International College Sunday to discuss on the issue of rape.

The discussion was organized by the Tribhuvan University (TU), MA in Gender Studies Program.

TU Professor Ms Mira Mishra viewed that “rape is always calculated”. It means that rapist seeks an ‘appropriate chance’ to rape. Refuting some research works which attempt to link the issue of rape with mental illness of perpetrator, she argues that rather it is intentional and conscious.

According to her, rape is related to power relation; it is the subordination and objectification of women and an inhumane act committed by those who do not value human justice and equal existence of the women.

“Rape is not a sexual act as claimed by some people,” she asserted. Survivors are forced to live with rage and pain, and with the accompanying post-rape trauma.

Senior Superintendent of Nepal Police, Chandra Kumar Khapung sees deeply rooted patriarchy that has been ruling the human society since a long time as the root cause of all sorts of violence including rape. He goes with Dr Mishra’s point that this heinous crime is linked with the power relation.

“If the situation was reverse (it means if women are powerful), perhaps women would not have fallen prey to sexual violence and against,” he predicts.

Women rights activist Sharu Joshi Shrestha calls for holding more and more dialogues and intensifying activism against rape. “Rape is rape and it cannot be redefined in a way that provides a situation to become flexible towards the perpetrator.”

In her view, naming and shaming against perpetrators in the cases of rape must be practiced to establish the truth that the perpetrator and not survivor is responsible for the crime and deserves stringent action.

She advocates for providing a space for survivors to share their experiences and speak against such exploitations.

A student shared that the flood of rape news in the media has really disturbed her these days. She is much more worried about her nine-year-old daughter and is in a state of constant fear since the rape of a seven-year-old girl in Parsa last month.

Amit Timilsina who is pursuing his Master’s degree in Gender Studies says he, as a male, feels pain core to his heart when he hears the news about the rape and murder of women after rape, and other sorts of violence against them. Incidents of serial rape cases either that are related to the Durbar Marga-based Hotel Landmark gang rape or the rape against a seven -year-old girl in Parsa or the rape on a 65-year-old woman in Saptari or the SEE-appearing student in Surkhet who was allegedly murdered after rape.

He called on the male community to challenge Miller’s notion and help to create a just and peaceful society by ending all sorts of violence against women.

As shared by SP Khapung to the gathering, domination and control, revenge, ego, negative influence of social media and the Internet, curiosity, sexual lust, drugs and alcoholic abuse, myths (men’s misjudgment that women wearing short clothes are inviting and appealing), psychological disorder are reported during the interrogations with perpetrators when asked what provoked them to commit the crime.

The last 21 years’ data about crime against women and children shows that in the fiscal year, 053-54 BS, the cases of rape (reported) were 112 and this number significantly jumped to touch 1,130 in the year 072-73 BS. He reveals the reality that these are only cases reported to the police, the cases that go unreported are even higher than this data (above 60 percent).

It would be not justifiable to blindly support the idea of Miller, but it is true that women do not feel safe while walking alone at night, while being surrounded and while travelling alone in a long route as a fear of being attacked by male dwells on her mind, says Bishnu Waiba of Makwanpur, an MA gender studies student.
TU Professor Bindu Pokhrel referring gender and development expert Dr Chandra Bhadra who in her Op-ed published under the title, ‘rage against rape’, in the Kathmandu Post in 2015, argues that “rape is an invasion upon women’s body and soul; it kills our souls and spoils our lives.”

She says that the crime that kills souls of survivor and spoils lives is never ever pardonable and combined efforts, stern action, and social awareness are necessary to control this and to let women to live with dignity and without any fear of being raped or sexually abused. RSS

KATHMANDU: Four cases of rapes were reported across the country on Sunday.

A girl in Rolpa has been allegedly raped by her father. The victim is a 12-year-old of Hwama VDC-7, a village located near the district headquarters Liwang.

It has been revealed that the girl was continuously raped by her father for the past one year. Her mother came to know about the incident on July 24 and filed a complaint against him at the local police.

The rapist father is on the run since July 25.

Meanwhile, a five-year-old girl was raped by a 15-year-old boy in Triyuga Municipality in Udaypur district.

Subash Michring Magar allegedly took the girl to his room on Sunday morning and raped her. The locals rushed to the boy’s room after they heard the girl crying. Police have arrested the accused.

Meantime, two women have been reportedly raped in Khotang. Women rights activists in the district have demanded action against the rapists and justice to the victims.

Women rights activists here have filed complaints against Parshu Acharya of Diktel-4 and Prem Bahadur Pandey of Dorpa Chiuridanda.

They also submitted a memorandum to Acting Chief District Office Tilakram Pokhrel Sunday, seeking stern action against the perpetrators. Police have already arrested them.

DHADING: The Dhading District Court has slapped one Sane Sarki of Maidi VDC to 13 years in jail for raping his granddaughter.

The court’s 13-year jail sentence includes 10 years for raping a minor girl and additional 3 years for incest rape . It has also ordered compensation of Rs. 25,000 to the victim.

The 56-year-old Sarki raped his granddaughter in January earlier this year.

Police had arrested Sarki from Khairani of Chitwan district two weeks after the incident and following a tip-off, according to District Police Office, Dhading.

Similarly, the Court announced a 39-year jail term and a fine of Rs. 200,000 against Subas Thapa Magar for murdering and raping a mother and her daughter.

Thapa Magar first axed Nirmaya Pulami, and her daughter Anuska Pulami of Dhola VDC to death and then rape d their dead bodies, according to police. The gruesome incident took place on September 22, 2009.

Likewise, the court announced a jail sentence of 31 years against Niraj Tamang of Chhatre Deurali VDC for murdering Brichha Chanamati Tamang.

Niraj and his group entered Brichha’s home and killed her after their plan to rape her failed on August 22, 2010.

She informed security men that she was walking to her building in Farwaniya when the two suspects stopped their vehicle next to her and offered her a free ride home. When she declined and continued walking, they stepped out of the vehicle and ran after her.

They caught her, tied her hands and bundled her forcefully into the vehicle after which they drove to a desert area.

They attempted to rape her but she resisted their efforts and began shouting until they let her go.

She immediately reported the incident to Farwaniya Operations Room, giving securitymen vivid description of the car.

The officers combed the area in search of the suspects to no avail, so they registered a case for further investigations.

Two unknown youths raped the 10 and 11 years-old-girls of Saha and Khanga surname respectively of Pipra Purba VDC while they were collecting cow dung cakes in the jungle, according to their family source. The youths involved in the incidents have not been identified yet.

The girls are undergoing treatment at Sagarmatha Zonal Hospital, Rajbiraj and further investigation on the incident is underway, said Rajendra Basnet, Police Inspector at the Area Police Office, Kanchanpur, Saptari.

MUGU: Just as Nepal is currently busy observing the 16-day campaign against Violence against Women (VAW) by organizing a variety of programmes, a teenager girl in Mugu was raped by a man whom she allegedly refused to marry.

Ram Singh Bohara,20, of Ruga VDC-3 raped the 17-year-old girl of Rowa VDC-6 on Tuesday midnight by taking her to a nearby field.

The girl was raped after she refused his proposal of marriage, according to local resident Rup Bahadur Budha.

Following a complaint by the victim, police have arrested Bohara from his home and is under custody pending further investigation and legal action.
The girl was a Grade 8 student at the local school. RSS

KATHMANDU: Nepal has been heaven for homosexuals from Asia and other countries. And at the center of this hype remained the Blue Diamond Society and its chairman Sunil Babu Pant. Pant, a former lawmaker, and a declared homosexuals after gaining substantial glory for advocating the rights of LGBTI community, recently landed in a sexual controversy.

He and his officials have been accused of sexually harassing other homosexuals at his office when they visit it for counselling. Pant has been accused of sexually harassing a government engineer homosexual, while he was there for counselling, a report by the tabloid Saurya Dainik claimed.

Quoting an anonymous source at the Blue Diamond Society, the report said that Pant had called the engineer to his own cabin after finding him attractive and without any discussion opened his zipper and performed oral sex.

However, the homosexual engineer had ran away from there said the source. The incident has brought similar harassments within the society. The society’s councillors were reported to be more focused on sexual engagements with the council seekers rather than counselling.

Poonam Rokkha, a 27 year old female from Kathjor-5, Ramechhap claimed that she was fired from the society after she protested the sexual harassment of a colleague, Bhakti Shah.

Though she had tried to approach her superiors, including Pant, she was reprimanded and asked not to sensitise sexual issues. And on top of that she was than fired from the job.

After failing to jet justice from the society’s superiors, Bhakti has sued the society at the Kathmandu district court.

On the other hand Pant has denied sexually assaulting any engineers and claimed that the accusations were a ploy to stain his personal and society’s image.