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Correspondent Ramita Navai investigates two shocking rape cases in India — part of a wave of such cases that have drawn in politicians from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and been accompanied by allegations of cover-ups, despite the fact that the government has vowed zero tolerance. This journalism is made possible by viewers like you. Support your local PBS station here: http://www.pbs.org/donate. First, she explores the case of a teen girl who accused Kuldeep Singh Sengar, then a powerful BJP politician, of rape. “Her allegation is that she tried to get a complaint registered against Kuldeep Sengar, but his name was repeatedly dropped out of the charge sheet and the complaint,” says Aishwarya S. Iyer, a journalist for The Quint who has reported extensively on the case. (The state’s chief minister publicly rejected criticisms that Sengar had been protected.) The girl did not give up — even after her father was killed, and then her lawyer and two aunts. Sengar is now in prison for the girl’s rape and his role in her father’s death, but still has a loyal following. Navai also investigates another alarming rape case in Uttar Pradesh that raised more allegations of political coverup. Nineteen-year-old Manisha Valmiki said she had been raped by four neighbors. She’d been strangled and her spinal cord was damaged. In their report, the police noted she had been violently assaulted but did not include her allegation of rape until eight days later, as media reporting gained

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