Lower-caste Dalit women wait for medical treatment in Mumbai in this 2006 file photo. Photo: AFP
India’s lower-caste Dalit women raped ‘to keep them in their place’: report
- Rights groups say men from dominant castes frequently use sexual violence against Dalits as a weapon to reinforce caste and gender hierarchies
- Police often fail to record or investigate such crimes, the groups say, and are sometimes abusive or put pressure on survivors to drop cases
Lower-caste Dalit women wait for medical treatment in Mumbai in this 2006 file photo. Photo: AFP