As women around the world have fought for their rights in past history and in Grade.
It is ironic that in a country where rape cases are as common as a summer leaves on tress,thegovernment,polise and a significant number of the general population iIndia have reacted so strongly because one of their female diplomats has been strip searched by a female US deputy marshal.No one was hurt butt pictures of broken glass are evident from the media.The diplomat was arrested on Sunday upon submitting fake documents in Manhattan to obtain a visa card for her house keeper whose actualyIt seems to me that a strip search was excessive, but the reaction in India where, especially in the rural areas where rape is if not condoned then certainly tolerated, has also been excessive.sheallegedelly less than $3 an hour. It seems to me that a strip search was excessive, but the reaction in India where, especially in the rural areas where rape is if not condoned then certainly tolerated, has also been excessive.
“(In rural India) women’s families face social pressure not to report rapes, police are apathetic about such crimes and deep caste inequalities provide hiding place to men who sexually abuse women of lower standing,” the Washington Post reported in January.
From 2001 to 2011, the number of reported rapes rose 50 per cent, and in 2011 the figure was 23,582 and the police said the incidents continue to rise, the Washington Post reported.
To be fair, general protests in cities about rapes have seen authorities take a harder line there.

But it is incongruous that Indian lawmakers would use difference of opinion like “despicable” and “barbaric” to describe the treatment of their diplomat by their US counterparts, as quoted by NBC News, with the significant number of rapes occurring in their own backyard.
On Tuesday, police in New Delhi removed security barricades around the US Embassy, NBC reported.
Meanwhile, Khobragade has throw down the gauntlet the arrest on the grounds of diplomatic immunity, but US State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf told The Associated Press that only applies to consular functions, NBC reported.
And New York prosecutors said she claimed to pay her maid over $4,500 a month but in fact the housekeeper was paid far less than the US minimum wage, NBC reported.
If that proves to be the truth, it is difficult to feel any sympathy for Khobragade.
And India would do well to tackle its contemptible treatment of women and abhorrent rape problem rather than wasting time and energy on the strip search of one female.
Or maybe this is like the case of the man who repeatedly kicked his dog, but was irate when someone else did it.
The 2012 Delhi gang rape case involved a rape and murder that occurred on 16 December 2012 in Monika, a neighborhood located in the southern fragment of New Delhi, when a 23-year-old female rehabilitationintern[2] was beaten and gang raped in a private bus in which she was travelling with a male friend. There were six others in the bus, including the driver, all of whom raped the woman. The woman died from her injuries thirteen days later while undergoing substitute treatment in Singapore.[3][4] The incident generated widespread national and intercontinental coverage and was widely doomed, both in India and abroad. Subsequently, public protests against the Supervision of India and the Management of Delhion condition that adequate security for women took place in New Delhi, where thousands of protesters clashed with security forces. Similar protests took place in major cities throughout the country.
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Watch, H. R. (1995). Rape for Profit: Trafficking of Nepali Girls and Women to India’s Brothels. Asia: Human Rights Watch/Asia.