A female judge in the northern
Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has been raped and seriously
injured in the latest in a long string of sexual attacks against
children and women across the country, Indian media reported
Tuesday.
Aligarh police superintendent Nitin Tiwari said the judge
was found drugged and unconscious at her home on Monday.
"Given her serious health condition it has not been
possible for her to undergo tests linked to the rape," Tiwari
added.
Media have paid increasing attention to sexual violence in
India since the 2012 gang rape and murder of a student on a
Delhi bus.
Last year the government tightened rape laws after
widespread protests but the tide of sexual violence has not
abated.
Monday's rape came just a couple of days after two teenage
cousins belonging to the country's 'untouchable' Dalit community
were raped and hung from a mango tree, also in the state of
Uttar Pradesh.
And on Tuesday police arrested one man in connection with
the gang rape of a 10-year-old boy in New Delhi on May 27.
Seven others remained to be found.
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