New Delhi: The news of rape of an 8-year-old girl has come to light in Delhi’s Nangloi, the police arrested the accused Mohammad Shahzad, a case has been registered against the accused under the POCSO Act.
The case has once again proved that even ten years after the December 2012 gangrape and murder of a 23-year-old woman, Delhi is still most “unsafe” metropolitan city in India with over 40 cases of ‘crimes against women’ were recorded in the city every day as per data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).
According to the data, there has been a 6 per cent increase in rape cases and a 17 per cent rise in cases of molestation and assault on women this year. 1,480 molestation and assault cases have been registered from January to July 15. In the same period last year, 1,244 such cases were registered.
