{"id":101747,"date":"2015-03-24T07:11:34","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T07:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=101747"},"modified":"2015-03-24T07:20:35","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T07:20:35","slug":"rape-cases-in-india-up-by-875","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=101747","title":{"rendered":"[Video] Rape cases in India up by 875%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rape cases in India is said to have increased by 875% over the last 40 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">India\u2019s rape problem has been described as one that &#8220;knows few boundaries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to reports, there were 309,546 cases\u00a0of crimes against women in 2013 alone and that number reflects only the ones that were reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a recent incident, an elderly man raped a lady in a robbery attack at a Christian school.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also, in 2012, a woman was said to have been brutally ganged raped and murdered on a public bus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This incident according to the CNN, sparked nationwide protest and made rape a topical issue in India\u2019s media.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">CNN further reports that after various \u201cprotest, vigils and\u00a0pleas to lawmakers the India government in 2013 introduced a tougher legislation\u00a0 for sexual crimes but\u00a0many argue that isn&#8217;t enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Click below to watch a full documentary on the issue.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/video\/api\/embed.html#\/video\/world\/2015\/03\/23\/pkg-curnow-india-rape-crisis.cnn\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Godwin Allotey Akweiteh\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlloteyGodwin\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @AlloteyGodwin<\/a><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rape cases in India is said to have increased by 875% over the last 40 years. India\u2019s rape problem has been described as one that &#8220;knows few boundaries.&#8221; According to reports, there were 309,546 cases\u00a0of crimes against women in 2013 alone and that number reflects only the ones that were reported. In a recent incident, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":101753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38,14],"class_list":["post-101747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/101753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}