A student holds a placard as she participates in a signature campaign to protest against the rape of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua, near Jammu, in Srinagar April 18, 2018. REUTERS/Danish Ismail
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India launched fast-track courts and a tougher rape law that included the death penalty after a gruesome assault on a young woman shocked the country in 2012, but crime statistics indicate the situation has got worse, not better, since then.
The data was collated by Reuters amid mounting public anger over crimes against women after two horrific cases in recent months that has, once again, cast a harsh light on systemic problems plaguing the country's police and courts.
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