On January 26, Nitya*, 20, was beaten, tonsured, allegedly gangraped and paraded in public, with a blackened face and a garland of shoes. Within a week, police held 20 persons, including four juveniles.
But for Nitya, who now leads a quiet and isolated life with her husband and three-year-old son, the police could have “stopped this if they had paid attention to us earlier”.
