312
submitted 2 months ago by Linkerbaan@lemmy.world to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

A man in the capital city of Uttar Pradesh, India, has died after the driver of a private ambulance took him off of life support and threw him out of the vehicle so he would have the opportunity to rape his wife.

According to The Times of India, the incident occurred late last month after the woman hired the emergency vehicle to escort her, her brother, and her husband home after he was discharged from a hospital in Lucknow due to financial limitations.

Speaking with police, the woman explained that on the way home, the emergency vehicle driver asked her to sit in the front seat next to him to avoid being stopped by police.

“I was forced to sit in the front seat, and then the driver and his companion started molesting me. I objected, but they did not listen to me,” she said, adding that her husband and brother sensed something was wrong and began trying to intervene from the back of the ambulance.

As a result, the men stopped the ambulance near the Chhawani police station, where they “forcibly removed the oxygen mask from [the woman’s] husband and threw him out” of the car before locking her brother in the front and proceeding to molest her.

In addition to sexually assaulting her, the woman also informed police that the men looted over $120 USD from her purse, jewelry, her identification card, and her husband’s hospital reports.

all 48 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[-] weariedfae@lemmy.world 80 points 2 months ago

Jesus fucking christ is it just open season on women all the time there?!

[-] circa2002 81 points 2 months ago

It's not. Imagine if you heard of the shootings in America, and only the shootings. You'd think that every school or public place was dangerous, but in reality, shootings are rare generally.

India has a lot of rapey bastards, but it also has a population about twice that of Europe. India is definitely a shit hole that needs to be fixed, but it's hardly everywhere all the time.

And yes, it's really bad over there compared to the rest of the (western) world. They need to get there shit sorted. I also feel somewhat hopeful because from my experience, the younger educated population is "saner" and doesn't absorb the local culture (both good and bad parts) around them due to social media and what I call "Americanization."

  • Someone who left the shit hole
[-] EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Also, there are 4 times the people as the US living more densly.

[-] Drusas@fedia.io 5 points 2 months ago

As a woman, I would probably visit Saudi Arabia before I would visit India. India is literally the only country that a fellow traveler has ever recommended against going to to me.

[-] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 54 points 2 months ago

I would be careful using The Publica as a source (owned by Rumble). This is an extreme right leaning group. Jeremy Hambly is co-founder and a 30 second google shows he is a massive piece of shit.

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 36 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Thanks for the heads up, I just saw the article pass by and found it interesting. I did check their source which is timesofindia. The source does contain everything mentioned in the article. Not sure how reliable timesofindia is as a newspaper though.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 months ago

This could be an entirely factual story but still serve a propaganda purpose. Check out the stories they publish about India.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Athepublica.com+india&t=fpas&ia=web

One true story is true, but when you curate which true stories get published you can still create a false narrative to push an agenda.

[-] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 months ago

It sounds like these events happened. I would just be cautious with op. Right wing nut jobs like to paint India as a rape capital and all of its males.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Again, I'm not disputing that the events happened.

My point is that they pick and choose which events to show us. It's a very selective lens meant to push an agenda.

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

There is a common theme about these abominable stories in India, they almost always happen in Uttar Pradesh. It's like the Florida of India.

There's like 250 million people living there which is close to the population of the whole US, so statistically you're bound to get crazy stories.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

There's things happening in Uttar Pradesh other than gang rape, public defecation, and murder. We don't hear those other stories in the West, though. In part it's because bad news attracts eyeballs, but there is an agenda to present Indian men as savage monsters.

[-] nutomic@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Why don't you post about these stories then?

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

I don't speak Hindi 🙄

Do you... actually think the only thing that happens in a city of 250 million is rape?

[-] northmaple1984@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Literally every media outlet curates which stories it publishes, this is not unique to this website.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

No shit, some media outlets curate stories based on whatever will make the most money.

And other media outlets curate stories to push an agenda.

[-] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

I would say a massive red flag would be no author attached to the article. However, multiple outlets have cover the event with some providing more info. It is hard to tell credible source, a lot are bias but not as credible. They like to make shit up.

[-] Fish@midwest.social 16 points 2 months ago

Just looked it up. Jeremy Hambly... of The Quartering. Didn't realize he co-founded a media outlet. Thanks, now I know to avoid it.

[-] JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world 37 points 2 months ago
[-] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 36 points 2 months ago

Why is it when Uttar Pradesh is mentioned it's always news about woman getting sexually assaulted jfc

[-] Plopp@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago

Uttar Pradesh is the Florida of the world, but like, way worse.

[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

It’s like eleven Floridas crammed into the space of Michigan.

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

With bonus religious tension

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Because that's the only news being fed to Western audiences.

[-] Drusas@fedia.io 2 points 2 months ago

I can accept that there are good things about Uttar Pradesh which are not reported to the Western world. For example, it looks like a beautiful place.

However, those good things not being reported doesn't really impact the frequency of such horrible atrocities being committed there.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

No, but it does create the false perception that all the men there are rapists.

[-] Drusas@fedia.io 2 points 2 months ago

That's fair.

[-] Drusas@fedia.io 0 points 2 months ago

Some of them are also being eaten by wolves recently. The children, mostly. But that is not as common a problem as women being sexually assaulted is.

[-] Drusas@fedia.io 30 points 2 months ago

What the FUCK is wrong with Uttar Pradesh? Because it is almost always Uttar Pradesh. And more importantly, why isn't the government doing anything about it?

[-] Bipolarsilence@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

Sometimes I don't know why I keep living

[-] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 37 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Haven't been thrown out of enough ambulances.

[-] Stanley_Pain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago

We all got to see this train wreck through to the end

[-] TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 months ago

Just India things ❤️

[-] Kiwi_fella@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

This reminds me of the ambulance scene from the movie Redirected.

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago
[-] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

In Uttar Pradesh, probably not.

[-] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

He was just tempting fate by leaving a town called Lucknow in an ambulance.

[-] match@pawb.social 1 points 2 months ago

(due to financial limitations)

[-] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

It was a joke. Dark humor is a coping mechanism that helps some of us avoid letting the existential dread creep in. Slaughterhouse 5 "so it goes" and all.

this post was submitted on 07 Sep 2024
312 points (97.6% liked)

World News

32286 readers
562 users here now

News from around the world!

Rules:

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS