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The horror of a young woman being gang raped twice in three years by the same men is beyond words. How could this have happened, and what could have emboldened these five men from committing the same heinous crime without any fear of the law, which provides for repeat offenders to be sentenced to death?
Three factors have contributed to the impunity with which the crime has been committed. The first is that the survivor is a poor Dalit woman, which in practice means that justice is beyond her reach. The second is that the five men, who allegedly raped her last week, had nothing to fear because nothing happened to any of them when they were accused of the same crime three years ago, in 2013. And the third is the bane of patriarchy which poisons every institution in our country, including the criminal justice system.