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CNN
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A 16 year-old woman was brutally stabbed and bludgeoned to demise in a busy public alleyway in India’s capital on Sunday, sparking renewed outrage over the security of ladies within the nation and violence perpetrated by males.

Video of the incident, which lasted for greater than a minute and was captured on safety digicam, reveals a number of individuals strolling shut by because the attacker repeatedly strikes the sufferer.

Only one man is proven trying to intervene, attempting to drag the attacker off the sufferer earlier than shortly retreating.

The physique of the sufferer, who has not been recognized, was discovered Sunday night within the Shahbad Dairy space of the northern Delhi neighborhood of Rohini, the place the incident came about.

On Monday afternoon, Indian police stated they’d arrested a male suspect named Sahil in reference to the homicide.

Sahil, a mechanic, was detained in Bulandshahr in neighboring Uttar Pradesh state, Ravi Kumar Singh, Deputy Police Commissioner for Outer Delhi, informed reporters on Monday.

Delhi’s Special Commissioner of Police Deependra Pathak informed Indian news channel Times Now that the preliminary investigation pointed towards a so referred to as “crime of passion.”

Speaking to Indian information company ANI, the woman’s father stated the household has demanded a “stringent punishment for the accused.”

The incident is the newest in a protracted line of killings and rapes which have triggered anger about whether or not sufficient is being carried out each to guard ladies in India and punish attackers.

“A minor girl is brutally murdered openly in Delhi,” Delhi’s Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal wrote on Twitter. “This is very sad and unfortunate. The criminals have become fearless, and there is no fear of the police.”

“The safety of the people of Delhi is of paramount importance,” he added.

Swati Maliwal, chairperson of the Delhi Commision for Women, told ANI she’s by no means seen such a daunting incident.

“Delhi has become extremely unsafe for women and girls,” she added.

India has lengthy struggled to deal with gender violence. A 2018 Thompson Reuters Foundation survey of specialists on ladies’s points ranked the nation as probably the most harmful place on the planet to be a lady.

The frequency of crimes in opposition to ladies in India additionally appears to be increasing. According to information from India’s National Crime Records Bureau, crimes in opposition to ladies have been 20% increased in 2020 in comparison with 2013 – the final 12 months earlier than the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) got here to energy.

Activists say the actual statistics are probably simply the tip of the iceberg, on condition that many types of violence in opposition to ladies, equivalent to rape, are sometimes underreported.

Yogita Bhayana, founding father of People Against Rapes in India, stated the issue is essentially rooted in outdated societal norms.

“We learn to live with this kind of situation in our country which is very unfortunate,” Bhayana informed CNN. “The basic patriarchal fabric is totally rotten and right now we need to fix that.”

“Putting cameras and putting marshals is not going to be enough,” she added. “The work has to be done on the mindset of the men and the boys.”