Patan Rape: As usual political connections.......

"Beasts preying on students for 10 yrs"- THE TIMES OF INDIA
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“Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful."-- Anacharsis quotes (Scythian prince and philosopher, 6th century BC)
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This was a sex den, just like the one in Nithari. Nobody outside knew what was happening inside the Primary Teacher's Training College (PTC) in Patan for 10 years.

How was the hush-up achieved? Political connections.

Their teachers were looking at them as prospective prey - girls they could get into bed on the sheer power derived out of their control over the internal marks in examinations.

A GCERT commission had advised that internal assessmant marks be reduced form 40% to 15% of the total to reduce chances of wrongdoings by teachers. The education ministry, then headed by Anandiben Patel had just sat on the recommendation.

It took one victim's extremely traumatised condition to bring this shocking incident to the public domain. The focus is right now on six teachers arrested by the police, but the dragnet could be cast wide if the government is really interested in getting to the bottom of the incident.

Seems unlikely as that would mean many big heads in the Gujarat government would have to roll.

From accounts coming out of the campus, it appears that the rapists used to choose girls from poor background and lower castes to prey upon.

Gujarat will be called truly great when the weakest and poorest of its citizens are protected and nurtured.

The students could not protest because their parents had worked hard to send them to the college. If they had told their parents that they were regularly getting raped by their teachers, their parents would have pulled them out of the college and asked them to keep mum, lest it hamper their marriage prospects.
In the main victim's case, the father belongs to the lowest of the low castes and hails from a village near Visnagar. His wife and he earn around Rs 50 a day as farm labourers. The victim has two sisters - both married - and are at present in their parents' home as they are pregnant.

This would churn the strongest of stomachs.

Again, this can't be an isolated incident. After the government ordered a magisterial inquiry into the case on Tuesday, the danger is that it may remain restricted to Patan. There could be many more Patans waiting to explode in the government's face if corrective measures are not taken.

That is what I am saying.

The larger conspiracy needs to be unearthed. For most of these 10 years, it was the supposedly efficient and head strong Anandiben Patel - present revenue minister and Patan MLA - who was in control of the education department, which ensured only male teachers ruled PTC, Patan.

She should resign from the governemnt.



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Rape in Patan: The mentality is the same everywhere

"18-yr-old ‘gangraped’ by her professors"- INDIAN EXPRESS

“I think when a person has been found guilty of rape he should be castrated. That would stop him pretty quick.”- Billy Graham (American evangelist, b.1918)


Around 100 girl students of the Primary Teachers’ Training College in Patan city went on a rampage in their college on Monday morning, protesting against the alleged repeated gangrape of an 18-year-old girl student by six college professors over the last four months. Threatening to fail her in the examination, the professors allegedly used to rape her in groups, the police said.

What sickos! That is problem today; no fear of the law. The thinking is if you have money or power you can get away with anything. Sick bastards!

According to the FIR lodged by the victim, the professors had raped her several times in the computer room, library, and other solitary places on the college premises. The victim has alleged that the accused used to write down their names on chits of paper and pick them up one by one to decide the order in which they would take turns on her.

Where on earth was the principal? What about the other staff?

The matter came to light on January 31, when the victim fainted in the college. “Fearing that she might be pregnant, she told one of her friends about her exploitation and requested her to accompany her to a gynaecologist,” the police said. The victim was not found to be pregnant.

Yeah. Exploit the meek and vulnerable; that seems to become the new mantra. One wonders where is the country going to? To the dumps?

The girls went on a rampage and assaulted the accused, to protest against the lack of action on the part of the college administration.

Hang them publicly. That will discourage this kind of things in the future. The law enforcement is too corrupted to do anything.

Later, the victim, who hails from Vishnagar in Mehsana district, filed a police complaint. “Based on the complaint, we have arrested the accused — Ashwin Parmar, Manish Parmar, Mahendra Prajapati, Kiran Patel, Suresh Patel and Atul Patel,” said Patan SP Raghvendra Vatsa. He added that the police were investigating whether any other girl had faced similar harassment.

Do something quickly, for God's sake. Wake up. Forget about the haftas and do something.

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