Rapes in India

Women activists of Bharatiya Janata Party, flag seen top, face police water cannons as they demonstrate outside the office of Uttar Pradesh state chief minister Akhilesh Yadav, demanding that he crack down on an increasing number of rape and other attacks on women and girls, in Lucknow, India, Monday, June 2, 2014. Police used water cannons to disperse hundreds of women who were protesting Monday against a rise in violence against women in the northern Indian state where two teenagers were gang raped last week and later found hanging from a tree.

An Indian woman, left, one among the protestors demonstrating outside the office of Uttar Pradesh state chief minister Akhilesh Yadav, demanding that he crack down on an increasing number of rape and other attacks on women and girls, scuffles with police in Lucknow, India.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) women workers raise slogans and burn an effigy of Akhilesh Yadav, chief minister of the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, during a protest against the gang rape of two teenage girls, in Allahabad, India.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) women workers shout slogans during a protest against the gang rape of two teenage girls, in Allahabad, India.

Activists hold candles during a vigil to protest against the gang rape of two teenage girls, in New Delhi, India.

Members of the All India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA) shout slogans during a protest against the gang rape of two teenage girls, in New Delhi, India.

Congress party Vice President Rahul Gandhi interacts with women during his visit to a village where two teenage girls were gang raped and killed in Katra, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh state.

Indian women and children watch policemen and others investigating the rape and killing of two teenage girls in Katra village, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh state.

Activists shout slogans during a candle lit vigil to protest against the gang rape of two teenage girls, in New Delhi, India.

Members of Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union shout slogans during a protest against a gang rape of two teenage girls in Katra village, outside the Uttar Pradesh state house, in New Delhi, India.

Activists of various student and youth organizations walk shouting slogans as they protest against a rise in violence against women in the country and West Bengal state in particular in Kolkata, India, Monday, June 2, 2014. Banner in Bangla reads, we condemn rape and molestation on women at Labhpur, Mohammed Bazar and other parts of state .

An activist places a candle on a pavement during a candle lit vigil to protest against the gang rape of two teenage girls, in New Delhi, India.