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Crime against women is, of course, not solely a rural phenomenon or merely a result of religious belief. The worsening position of women is revealed in other ways and other settings as well.
Five rapes rocked Delhi and Mumbai in the past month, for instance. They included one of a 13-year-old mentally challenged girl in a suburban train in Mumbai, with five male passengers including a reporter looking on, feeling helpless, though the rapist was drunk and could have been easily overpowered. This was one of the 127 rapes reported in Mumbai in the past year. Delhi is, however, considered the most dangerous city, with 266 rapes in 2002 so far, several of which were reportedly committed by gangs of five or six men in cars cruising the streets for hours, shielded by illegally tinted glass.
According to the National Crime Reports Bureau, the number of rape cases in India increased from 15,468 in 1999 to 16,496 in 2000, a jump of 6.6 percent. The National Commission for Women (NCW) says it receives complaints of sexual crimes against women every day. Between April 2001 and March 2002, it received 741 complaints from Delhi and 1,748 from the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Rape isn't the only serious sexual crime against women, who are commonly subjected to sexual harassment at the workplace, marital rape and outrage of modesty by touching, pinching or pulling at clothes.
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