{"id":1705,"date":"2006-11-25T22:58:55","date_gmt":"2006-11-25T22:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2006-11-25T22:58:55","modified_gmt":"2006-11-25T22:58:55","slug":"a-brave-16-year-old-dies-for-her-courage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1705","title":{"rendered":"A brave 16-year-old dies for her courage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the name <a href = \"http:\/\/in.today.reuters.com\/news\/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&#038;storyID=2006-11-24T132727Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_India-277641-1.xml\">Asha Katia<\/a> with pride for her courage, and weep:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Asha Katia, 16, [a poor servant from the community formerly knowns as Untouchables] had taken 36-year-old Chhote Singh Rajput to court accusing him of raping her in 2005, said P. P. Sharma, police chief of Hoshangabad district in Madhya Pradesh where the crime occurred.<br \/>\n&#8220;The deceased was under immense pressure to withdraw charges and deny the rape allegation in court,&#8221; Sharma said. But Katia stood by her accusation, enraging Rajput, he added.<br \/>\nOn Wednesday, he allegedly doused Katia with kerosene and set her alight in front of her family at her home in Sahalwada village.<br \/>\nRajput denies murdering the girl. He was arrested by police soon after the killing and remains in custody.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the name Asha Katia with pride for her courage, and weep: Asha Katia, 16, [a poor servant from the community formerly knowns as Untouchables] had taken 36-year-old Chhote Singh Rajput to court accusing him of raping her in 2005, said P. P. Sharma, police chief of Hoshangabad district in Madhya Pradesh where the crime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}