{"id":1851,"date":"2026-10-02T11:17:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T11:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/?p=1851"},"modified":"2026-10-02T11:17:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T11:17:30","slug":"rape-cases-trigger-protests-at-universities-across-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/blog\/2026\/10\/02\/rape-cases-trigger-protests-at-universities-across-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Rape Cases Trigger Protests at Universities Across India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BAREEN Media &#8211; Protests by students at universities across India have intensified following a series of alleged rape and sexual assault cases involving women and girls in recent weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At Delhi University, hundreds of women students marched through the streets demanding justice after a 17-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped in a public park near the campus by three men who reportedly posed as police officers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The demonstrations come after several other reported cases, including the alleged gang rape and killing of another 17-year-old girl in Delhi, as well as cases involving children aged 11 and six.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Students are calling for stronger accountability, better policing and improved safety on and around university campuses. Some protesters have also criticized measures that place restrictions on women\u2019s movements rather than focusing on perpetrators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The protests have brought renewed attention to concerns about violence against women in India. India\u2019s Supreme Court has said a series of recent rape cases highlighted what it described as a \u201csystematic failure\u201d in addressing sexual violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAREEN Media &#8211; Protests by students at universities across India have intensified following a series of alleged rape and sexual assault cases involving women and girls in recent weeks. At Delhi University, hundreds of women students marched through the streets demanding justice after a 17-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped in a public park near the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[661,377,25,29],"tags":[663,226,665,664,78],"class_list":["post-1851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-society","category-women","category-world","tag-delhi-university","tag-india","tag-protests","tag-sexual-violence","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1853,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851\/revisions\/1853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}