So it’s only when men beheaded their wives and took their heads to their local police stations in villages in Bengal273, Karnataka274, Orissa275; or when a young survivor of gang rape had her head shaved and was paraded through the streets as Panchayat-ordered punishment in the Gaya district of Bihar276 do these stories permeate the English media. The Kathua Gang Rape Case too came to the attention of the English media only after the chargesheet had been filed in April 2018, three whole months after the child had been horrifically gang raped over a week and then murdered.
