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There are many countries with higher rape rates per capita than India, but in terms of conviction rate, and corruption in the law enforcement as well as lower courts India is somewhere at the bottom.

And don't forget the victim blaming and abuse of power by ruling parties.

In many rape cases relatives of the ruling party or even MPs like Brij Bhushan are themselves implicated. It can be automatically assumed the victim will never get justice in that case.

Casteism is also a problem unique to India and cases like Hathras shows ruling party's apathy to rape victims of lower castes. Additionally society in general denies justice to lower caste rape victims.

Victim blaming and casteism are sociological elements of a premature society.

India will never progress with the mindset that some other country is much worse so that can make them look better. One has to acknowledge what's wrong with the country and then try to fix it. Irrespective of what's happening in the rest of the world.