92. The Ajmer Rape Scandal - India

Welcome to Chai and Chithi, a segment where we take fan stories mailed in to us, as well as share some of our more personal ghastly experiences. Mail in your spooky, crime or desi stories to desicrime@thebranchmedia.org. 

Over the last decade, India has been home to a slew of unexpected, scandalous and devastating suicides with sinister back stories. These suicides, those of Jiya Khan, Pratyusha Banjerjee, Sushant Singh Rajput, Tunisha Sharma and more, weren’t just stories of people who gave up on ...  Show more

December 16th: Jyoti Singh Attacked(2012) Something as innocent as walking to the bus with a male friend shouldn’t place a target on a woman’s back. On December 16th 2012 a young woman with a bright future tried to go home after a movie and was brutally attacked for nothing more ...  Show more

One year on from the horrific attack in Delhi, Joanna Jolly hears from three women who've chosen to report a rape in a country that is at last waking up to the problem. The authorities have introduced tougher laws since the young student was raped on a bus last December but is th ...  Show more

In the middle of the night two officers knock on a young woman’s door, they were there to alert her – that the man who raped her more than twenty years earlier was AWOL. Join Global News senior crime reporter Nancy Hixt…as she shares how a survivor of a violent sexual assault –co ...  Show more

This week, Drewby and Yergy head to Dehli, India, to discuss the case of Jyoti Singh, a young woman who was attacked by a gang of men on a bus after a night out at a movie. Her fight for survival and subsequent death made her become a symbol of women's resistance around the world ...  Show more