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Ajmer rape case
Coerced sexual exploitation case of girls in Rajasthan, India
Ajmer rape case
The 1992 Ajmer rape scandal was a series of gangrapes and blackmailing in which 250 female students, aged between 11 and 20, were reportedly victims of a series of gang rapes and blackmailing. The perpetrators, led by Farooq and Nafees Chishti, were members of the hereditary caretaker Khadim family of Ajmer Sharif Dargah and leaders of the Indian Youth Congress in Ajmer. Over several years, ending in 1992, they lured victims to remote farmhouses or bungalows, where they were sexually assaulted by one or several of the men and photographed naked or otherwise revealing positions to prevent the women from speaking out. The scandal came to light through a local newspaper, Dainik Navajyoti, and subsequent police investigations, amid allegations of prior knowledge by local authorities. N.K. Patni, the then Superintendent of Police of the CID Crime Branch, noted that the case emerged during a period of heightened communal tension. He highlighted the challenges in investigating the matter without...
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