The brutal rape of a five-year-old girl here “has again exposed the failure of police training and reform in India”, Human Rights Watch said on Sunday.<\/p>\n
“Enacting strong laws are simply a first step but it needs the government to focus urgently on implementation if it is serious about protecting children and other victims of sexual abuse,” it said.<\/p>\n
“The inadequate response of the police has become obvious in these recent cases from Bulandshahar, Aligarh and Delhi,” added Human Right Watch’s South Asia director Meenakshi Ganguly.<\/span><\/p>\n “Police and other officials (who) fail to do their jobs and instead engage in abusive behaviour should know they will be punished. The brutal rape of a five-year-old girl here “has again exposed the failure of police training and reform in India”, Human Rights Watch said on Sunday. “Enacting strong laws are simply a first step but it needs the government to focus urgently on implementation if it is serious about protecting children and other victims of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[23383],"class_list":["post-27868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-law-news","tag-rapes-expose-police-failure"],"yoast_head":"\n
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