Father, brother, uncle arrested after Indian teen alleges years of rape

By Sujoy Dhar KOLKATA, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The father, uncle and brother of a 16-year-old girl in eastern India have been arrested accused of raping her repeatedly over a period of two years, police said on Saturday. The girl told a school teacher in Dhupguri town in West Bengal state on Thursday after being too scared to speak out previously. She alleged that her uncle also raped her and of late her brother had also started," police spokesman K.L. Sherpa in Jalpaiguri district told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Public protests after the fatal gang rape of a woman on a Delhi bus in December 2012 jolted many in the world's second most populous country out of apathy and forced the government to enact stiffer penalties on gender crimes.



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