THE economic compensation that the woman with dual Brazilian-Spanish citizenship received, gang raped last weekend while her husband, a Spanish citizen, was being severely beaten, puts a secular practicel of the Asian country with which it tries to take care of the victims.
The couple received a copy of the paperwork and a check for around one million rupees in front of the cameras. $12,000by the authorities of the Dumka district, where the event occurred, in what was the authorities’ first formal appearance with the victims.
THE Indian law establishes a victim compensation program which, in the case of gang rape, varies from 500,000 to one million rupees depending on various considerations, aimed at people who have suffered sexual crimes and need rehabilitation or psychological treatment.
The Supreme Court of India has said on other occasions that it is not enough for a rape victim to provide justice because of all this physical and emotional consequences which he takes after the attack.
There are also compensation programs for victims of other criminal crimes.
A judicial source explained to EFE that the compensation in this case It does not represent a solution or correct the judicial process that’s still going.
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The attack occurred while she was crossing the Asian country with her husband.
Compensation may be authorized by the court, at the request of the victims or by the authorities immediately after the crime, when it is considered at first glance or prima facie to be a crime, without concluding the trial.
Even if justice establishes it the crime did not happencan be requested reimbursement of the compensated amount.
THE appeared on the cameras of victims receiving compensation is a common practice by the Indian authorities who then released videos and photographs on social networks.
Eight people have been arrested for the gang rape.The couple of expert motorcyclists who have been traveling the world on motorbikes for five years, with a huge following on social networks, were attacked at midnight last Friday while they were camping in the Dumka district, in the northern state of Jharkhand.
According to her story, the woman was raped several times by seven men.
Under intense media attention, the police arrested suspects in the first four days.
Iranian motorcyclist Maral Yazarloo today condemned in a video message the criticism of the compensation received and the attacks against the couple.
The couple left India and continued their journey to Nepal. Photo: EFE“People who say that what happened (to the victim) was because of the way he dresses, or because he slept in a tent, and ask why he is talking (about the crime) or uploading videos to Instagram. What do they expect? , for a woman to end her life,” said Yazarloo, known for traveling around the world on a motorcycle.
On Tuesday evening Yazarloo along with dozens of Indian motorcyclists, some of them acquaintances of the couple, organized a vigil in the western state of Maharashtra to demand justice for the Spanish couple.
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Source: Clarin
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