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Al Jazeera
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Akanksha Singh

India: Why justice eludes many Dalit survivors of sexual violence

Activists protest outside a special police station for registering caste-based atrocities following an incident in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India [Courtesy: Ganesh Khosle]

Mumbai, India – In February last year, Divya Pawar*, 35, left home after a dispute with her husband to visit her parents.

As she waited for a bus in rural Solapur in India’s western Maharashtra state, two dominant-caste men – one of whom was a police officer – stopped and offered her a ride.

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