In the first week of March, it seemed to be a free-for-all in attacking India in general and Hinduism in particular.
What had happened? Here is what I gleaned from news sources.
In an isolated area in the state Jharkhand, 300 km from its capital Ranchi, a 28-year-old Spanish/Brasilian woman and her 64-year-old Spanish husband had pitched their tent. They had travelled all over the world for some years and had come from Bangladesh on 2 motorbikes.
At 11 pm on Friday night, 1. March, a police patrol saw 2 foreigners by the side of the road. Due to the language barrier, the police couldn’t understand what they said.
The police took them to a community health centre 60 km away. ‘The Week’ mentions, that the two foreigners were in a position to ride on their own bikes to the health centre and were escorted by the police.
In the hospital, the woman told the doctor that she has been sexually assaulted by 7 or 8 men, who had attacked her husband, tied his hands and then, one after the other, raped her. The culprits also stole some of their belongings, including a diamond ring. But their main intention, she said, was to rape her.
The whole ordeal lasted from 7.30 pm to 10 pm, before the police patrol passed by. She gave her statement to the police in the health centre and also released a video on her Instagram handle that night. She meanwhile deleted the video.
Right after speaking to the woman, on Saturday morning, 2. March, the cops started interrogating suspects. Some confessed and were arrested already on 2. March. They spilt names of others.
Meanwhile all 8 have been arrested in record time.
The Hindu reported that the court took suo motu cognisance of the case, since this incident could reflect badly on the image of Bharat. A woman judge met the biker woman, and concluded that the victim is physically stable but mentally a wreck.
A cheque over 10 lakhs was handed over to them, and on 5. March, they continued their travel to Nepal “amidst heavy security” according to Times of India.
Incidentally, Dumka, the area where it happened, was earlier represented in the Assembly by the present chief minister of Jharkhand Hemant Soren, and the BJP, which is in the opposition in the state, attacked the Jharkhand government over failing law and order.
When I saw the tweet with the video, where the Spanish woman talks about her ordeal, 9 hours after it was posted by a Turkish woman, it had already 49 million views… this was incredible and highly suspect. I guessed, correctly as it turned out, that those who will be arrested won’t have Muslim names.
It looked as if a toolkit has been activated to demean the image of India, as it was done in 2012, after the Nirbhaya case. At that time, the news spread over the whole world like wildfire, and not the culprits stood accused as much as India and her (Hindu) culture.
At that time, the purpose was in all likelihood to try to equate India with Pakistan, which some months earlier, had got an extra bad name due to the Rotherham grooming scandal in which mainly Pakistani Muslims were the rapists. The propaganda against Bharat was fierce and successful. Most Westerners, who didn’t know India from own experience, mistakenly believed now that India has a huge “rape problem”.
The present Dumka case also spread like a rapid wildfire. The tweet by the Turkish woman alone got 210 million views in only 10 days!! This is impossible without massive manipulation. The case is not only all-over social media, but also mainstream media, including in Germany, where the newspapers didn’t even add “allegedly” before telling what terrible things happened in India ‘again’.
The gang rape may have happened, but nowadays one never can be fully sure. Neither a man’s nor a woman’s word should be taken as true, unless it’s proven to be true. Too many fake cases have been filed in Bharat. I got flak on Twitter, including personal insults, when I pointed out that some things don’t add up:
After such a terrible ordeal, the victim would have surely been greatly traumatised. Would she make a video about the incident in the same night for social media?
Is it possible that an hour after the brutal assault on her husband and 7 or 8 men forcefully raping her, they were in a position to ride their bikes for 60 km?
Another oddity: after they got the cheque and before leaving for Nepal, there seemed great bonhomie with the cop, with whom they made selfies. A photo is on Twitter. Incidentally, the bruise on her face had also disappeared by then.
And one more oddity: a Twitter user dug out an Instagram video by them from 18. January, where they narrate that after a 4 months and 14,500 km long journey through India after entering from Pakistan, they have reached Kanya Kumari, the southernmost point, and will now head for Australia. Why did they change their plans and how did they get back to the north of India so quickly?
I was concerned, that some local youths could have been beaten up to confess something that was not true. Unfortunately, this can happen. It happened in the Kathua rape case. Madhu Kishwar in her well-researched book “The girl from Kathua” brought out, among other valuable information, a painful incident, which left me truly shaken:
The 3 college roommates of Vishal, who was one of several accused, were tortured to sign a false declaration to implicate Vishal in the rape…
In the media posts regarding the case of the Spanish couple, two things stood out:
On one hand, the mainstream and social media went berserk against Indian culture, means Hindu culture, even though the culprits may not be Hindus, and on the other hand, many Hindus felt shame to be Indian and apologised.
The Economic Times had a headline:
‘All Indians should feel ashamed when…’: Singer Chinmayi Sripaada..
Why?
When a German criminal commits a crime, I don’t take the blame, neither is “Christian or German culture” blamed. It happens nowhere. Strangely in India of all places, which has a comparatively low number of crimes, many Hindus take the blame. And they don’t realise that it only encourages others to hit out more strongly.
For example, a tweet by one Daniel Haqiqatjou:
“When a religion worships deities whose mythology involves plenty of incest and sexual assault, this is what a society based on that religion looks like.”
My reply:
“We should indeed find out what a society based on Hinduism looks like compared to those, based on Abrahamic religions. To do this, data on crimes and the religion of criminals needs to be collected. I predict that Hindu society has the least crimes. And people even know it. You too.”
In India, crimes are comparatively low, yet media takes advantage of the huge population and confuses people.
For example, the Business Standard writes on rape statistics:
The number of rape incidents in India in per 100,000 citizens is 22,172 as of 2020 with 1.80 rape rate. It has an average of 87 rapes daily.
Regarding Sweden it says only: Sweden has a rape rate of 63.5 and about 5960 rape incidents in per 100,000 citizens.
Which country looks worse for a casual reader? It would probably be India.
Yet to break it down, it means, if India (130 crore population) was equal to Sweden (1 crore), it would need to have instead of 22,000 rape cases per year 780,000!! (6,000 x 130)
That’s how low India figures.
Many Westerners may say “Oh I never trust Indian numbers”… well, what to say. To Hindus it is obvious that the Hindu mindset based on Dharma is responsible for the low rank in crimes. Of course, to realise this, one needs to know what Hindu Dharma is about.
The question remains: why are those who direct Western mainstream media and have a hold on the algorithm in social media so keen to show India unfairly in bad light? Why are they not fair and reasonable?
Are they so ignorant and genuinely believe that Hinduism is a “beastly religion” as Winston Churchill infamously claimed? Or do they know the truth and fear that Hindu Dharma could put the organised religions out of business?
It would need a thorough research.
13 Comments
Thank you Maria for your defence of the Sanatana Dharma, and India. Your detailed analysis is unmatched, and should put all the pseudo journalists to shame.
After reading your post, I am convinced that this whole episode could be a Tool kit ‘Mission 2024’, Many Indians seem to be a part of this ecosystem. I am sure that all the ‘criminals’ in this case who have been arrested, would be quietly let off after sometime. Rs. 10 Lakhs paid to the couple as compensation, could be the fee for the whole thing. I am not sure whether any medical examination was conducted in this case after the FIR was filed.
Getting 210 Million views on Twitter within such a short span , certainly strengthens your doubts .
A lot of Indians still have not been able to get rid of their mental slavery, and hence apologetic .It might take a few decades more to get rid of this disease .
Thank you once again for the defence of India.
thank you
From Spain, raising same doubts than you, Maria. Without thoroughly rejecting all the aspects of the story, I´d say the whole story stinks. It seems some of us tend to question the official versions of everything…more when we know the global interest in giving Bharat a bad name. Thanks as usual for your defense of Dharma.
The whole thing smells fishy. People cannot pin corruption or any scandal on Modi ji and his cabinet. This rape case, the kicking of the namazis by a delhi cop, are all part of the tool kit to bring down the Modi government. Thank you for your efforts in exposing the devious plot and people trying to destroy Hindus and India.
Yes, for an average newspaper reader all numbers concerning India look gigantic… just because Bharat is 20 to 30x larger than most other countries in the world.
I remember 15-20 years ago, India was denounced and declared by the left and abrahamic dominated press as the HIV virus capital of the world.
When the stream of bad news did not stop, I thought to make a calculation to get the number PER CAPITA (or per lakh inhabitants).
Of course, the result was that Bharatīya numbers are much smaller than of most of countries, incl. the Western countries.
Bhârat-India is the largest country, population-wise, so it is only logically that many statistics will come up with highest absolute numbers. One can compare only when calculated PER 100’000 inhabitants.
Thanks Maria ,
I hundred percent agree with your view, I have been posted in a similar area in Jharkhand ,believe me actually police do not go out after dark for Patrolling. The entire sequence of events is shady and requires thorough enquiry, it’s fake.
I have myself patrolled that area but with heavy contingent. The timings don’t match .I have fallen sick in that area and leave aside rape the doctors of that level can’t tell the difference between malaria and Typhoid.
Anyway the damage has been done to our reputation but its not going to have any impact on votes– Regards Joshi
Thank you for shining a light on this issue. There needs to be a relentless focus on rooting out such behavior. There is probably some truth and that is distressing. I feel discouraged and downcast at my countrymen.
Also there should be more emphasis on education, so people can get jobs and are not resentful.
— Pradipta
thanks for this insight. hope some investigation is done. at least it would deter maybe future defamation attempts like this.
i remember this hype around AIDS in the 1990s about India. i remember a claim that by the year 2000 all hospital beds in Delhi will be occupied by AIDS patients.
India is witnessing such toolkits for last several years and more and more ever since our beloved Modi has tookover as PM. India will defeat such anti-India activities now and in future and will emerge victorious and rule the world one day. Jai Bharat! Jai Bharat Mata!
In all probability, the culprits could be converted Christians as Dumka is a stronghold of missionaries.
on Twitter it was said, they work for missionaries, but if they are culprits or have been drawn into a conspiracy would need to be probed. nothing was disclosed about those arrested, not if the belongings of the couple have been retrieved, even their faces were covered except for the eyes.
well written and explained, i doubted the same, the couple who are that traumatized went on social to post a video about themselves and then 1-2days later their faces are totally fine, no signs of wound ageing features, bruises??? gone???
Coming to the social media aspect, some idiot posted it and went totally viral like you said 200+M views…looks like a complete manipulation, this is like some George Soros level shit. ANTI INDIA propaganda at its finest, on the other hand we have people on twitter, multiple accounts (I don’t want to mention/most of you know already) started this hatred towards India post after post only against India and Hindus, Islamic/Muslim atrocities are already rampant across EU, UK and US yet everyone cried anti India propaganda like there’s no tomorrow