Another begged her assailants to at least stop recording the attack.įootage of rape can be purchased for as little as 30 cents Īnti-rape activists said the making of such videos is largely a display of dominance. One woman begged her rapists to stop, saying that her only recourse would be suicide. The videos Al Jazeera saw were deeply disturbing, and included what appeared to be a minor. Police act at the orders of politicians even local politicians have an influence on police forces,” he added. “In states like Uttar Pradesh, there is no supremacy of rule and order. This proves how insensitive this government is towards the safety of women and their dignity,” he said. “In my constituency, I have heard about such videos being sold but police have taken no concrete action to stop this social malice. I need to see them first before making any comment.”Īl Jazeera was able to buy several of the videos with relative ease from different locations.Ī senior leader of the Bhartiya Janta Party, Sanjeev Balyan – who is also a member of parliament for Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh – said that he believes the government’s insensitivity towards women is a major factor in the rise of sexual violence in the country. I don’t know the authenticity of these rape videos. Hence I don’t have any idea of these rape videos being sold in the market,” he said. The Inspector General of Police for Meerut Range, Ajay Anand, told Al Jazeera that he was too new to the job to know anything about the videos. Upon being informed, he said that if provided with the video, he would take action. I don't doubt that many of them might have resorted to committing suicide. One can only wonder what would have happened to these victims whose videos are being sold in the market. “ Rape video … ye kya hota hai (Rape video, what is this)?” he asked. When Al Jazeera contacted the Deputy Inspector General of Police for Saharanpur Range, J K Shahi, he said he did not know what a rape video was. While customers seem to be savvy to the availability of the latest rape video, local police appear to be oblivious. READ MORE: Why Al Jazeera purchased rape videos in India ‘Rape video, what is this?’ He watches the videos, he said, because they give him “peace of mind”. He has a collection of these films on his laptop and described the rape footage as “pornography”. The videos he buys at shops and kiosks come mainly from other customers who sell the footage to the shopkeepers, he explained.
In the village of Saharanpur in western Uttar Pradesh, one man who readily admitted that he frequently purchases pornography – particularly videos of rape – told Al Jazeera that he buys them from other nearby villages. In fact, “WhatsApp sex videos” is one term used for rape videos in this part of the country. Once a rape video reaches one dealer, it spreads like wildfire, through applications such as WhatsApp, to other parts of the country. There are watchwords in the trade – akin to a secret handshake – that let the sellers know that a customer seeks rape videos – as opposed to other pornography, which the kiosks also sell. One of them admitted that he had many such “local films”, as the videos are euphemistically referred to. Some, however, agreed to share explicit videos, including rape clips, with Al Jazeera.
Most shopkeepers are careful to sell the videos only to locals, and generally deny any knowledge of them. The stolen footage is then sold to anyone who asks for it. Sometimes, he said, the videos are stolen from the perpetrator’s phone when he takes his device to a shop for repairs. “They make it to blackmail the victims … so that they don’t go and file a complaint in the nearest police station,” Shawnawaz explained. Shahnawaz, who declined to use his real name, said that the videos are not generally made with the intention of being sold on the open market. With shopkeepers cautious about selling them to non-locals, one local man in the village of Incholi – roughly 15km from Meerut – agreed to buy one and show it to Al Jazeera.
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In Meerut, a city in western Uttar Pradesh, an area mostly known for the manufacturing of sporting goods, local contacts indicated that the movie files, marketed as “rape videos”, were available in nearby villages. The faces of the women are visible in these films.
They cost from Rs 20 to Rs 200 (30 cents to $3) and are transmitted to a customer’s mobile phone in a matter of seconds. Uttar Pradesh, India – In this industrial northern state, you can buy footage of a woman being raped for the price of a cheap meal.Īl Jazeera found several videos that appeared to depict rape for sale across the state.
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