Assam cabinet minister’s personal assistant was arrested for allegedly rapping his ex-girlfriend. On Thursday, he was arrested by the Assam on charges of rape.
Lakhi Gogoi was apprehended by the Dispur police for allegedly rapping his ex-girlfriend while pretending to marry her.
A criminal case has been filed at the Dispur police station under section 376,417 of the Indian Penal Code, with case number 3821/21. (IPC). The Dispur Police have summoned the accused Lakhi Gogoi on charges of rape.
For the last three years, Assam has had the highest rate of crimes against women among all states and union territories for which official data is available. According to NCRB data, three types of crimes against women—domestic violence, kidnapping, and molestation—have increased significantly from 2016 to 2019.
Gender-based violence data collected in the National Family Health Survey-5 (NFHS) 2019-20, released in December 2020, show a trend of increasing crimes against women in Assam.
In Assam, over 30% of women reported spousal violence in NFHS-5, compared to 24.5 percent in NFHS-4 (2015-16), and 8% of young women reported sexual violence, compared to 5.8% in NFHS-4.
Assam has a higher rate of crimes against women than the rest of India; in 2019, the state’s crime rate (per 100,000 female population) was nearly three times the national average. Is there a link between the increased numbers and an increase in crime or crime reporting?
Both, say activists from women’s organisations, who have released a Women’s Manifesto 2021, which includes several demands for political parties and candidates in poll-bound Assam, including the prevention and mitigation of crimes against women, among other gender-based demands.
However, Assam police attribute the rise in crime to increased reporting as a result of women’s empowerment in the state.
According to the police, women in rural Assam report fewer crimes due to fear and financial dependence on their husbands.
In India’s third-most rural state, however, more rural than urban women reported spousal violence, according to the NFHS-5.
These reasons for under-reporting in rural areas, according to several women’s rights activists we spoke with, were also true for women in urban Assam.
They said the NCRB statistics are only the “tip of the iceberg” of crimes against women in Assam, and that some of the rise in violent crimes against women and girls could result from a backlash as women increasingly challenge patriarchal values in the state.
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