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Indian policemen on patrol in Mumbai, on August 28, 2013/AFP

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Five charged over Mumbai photographer’s gang rape

In the Delhi gang rape, the 23 year old victim died of grievous internal injuries on December 29 after being lured on to a private bus by a gang of six following a cinema trip with her male companion, who was beaten up.

Last week a court convicted four men and sentenced them to death, a sentence the judge said was intended to deter other would be rapists.

Though the Delhi and Mumbai cases garnered widespread media attention and sparked nationwide protests, gang rapes and sexual assaults are reported daily in Indian newspapers.

On Thursday a minister in the northwestern state of Rajasthan resigned after he was accused of raping, threatening and beating up a woman last week.

Babulal Nagar, 53, denied the allegations but said he was resigning on “moral grounds” to allow an “impartial probe”, the Press Trust of India news agency reported, adding police are investigating.

Also on Thursday global campaigning group Avaaz praised Milind Deora, a central government minister, for his calls for a mass public education campaign to change attitudes towards women.

“Outdated attitudes are driving an epidemic of rape,” Avaaz campaigns director Meredith Alexander said in a statement.

Mumbai’s top policeman Satyapal Singh drew anger after the attack on the photographer by suggesting that a “promiscuous culture” that allows kissing in public made the city less safe for women.

Since news of the Mumbai gang-rape emerged, police say a 19 year old telephone operator has come forward to tell them she was raped in the same mill compound at the end of July, allegedly by three of the same suspects, and two others.

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In a further dent to Mumbai’s image, police arrested a school bus cleaner at the weekend on suspicion of raping a four year old in the vehicle on the outskirts of the city earlier this month.

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