The Rape of a Para Medical Student in a Bus of New Delhi, last night has shocked the entire nation. It raises several questions on the law and order of NCR which is becoming synonymous to Rape and Assaults.
Every new day we hear some horrific case of Sexual Assault in which an innocent girl is traumatized for her life. Some of these cases have been such which brings shame to the entire human race. The article is not meant as a piece of Literature, but as a curtain raiser for the society. Here we list here ten most heinous Rape  and Sexual Assault Cases that took place in 2012.
1. Date: 16/12/2012 Place: South Delhi
A Paramedical student was gangraped in the South Vasant Vihar Area in a moving bus and thrown out on the road along with her badly beaten boyfriend. Around five to seven men in the bus, including the driver and conductor, allegedly misbehaved with the woman. When the boyfriend intervened, he was beaten up. She was then sexually assaulted in the moving bus.
2. Date:Â 16/12/2012 Â Place: Kasaragod, Kerala
A 14-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her brother and his friend over the last two years. The girl had also been taken to various places in Karnataka and raped.  In another case,  a six-year-old girl was allegedly sexually abused by her 40-year-old father for six months after she was forced to drink alcohol.
3. Date: 11/12/2012 Place: Alwar
In a bizarre crime, a youth attempted to rape a 12-year-old girl inside her house in the presence of her two sisters and grandfather in Alwar’s Govindgarh area. However, when he failed in the bid, he returned two days later and set the girl on fire. The girl is now battling for life in hospital.
4. Date: 16/10/2012Â Place: West Delhi
A 16-year-old girl was raped by a transport company owner in west Delhi last Sunday when she met him for a job. Police said the Class VIII dropout was sexually assaulted by Chanra Mohan Kashyap at his office in Punjabi Bagh even as her mother waited outside.
5. Date: 29/08/2012 Place: Hyderabad
A seventeen-month-old baby was allegedly raped by two men at Hafiz Babanagar area of Old City of Hyderabad. The incident came to light when a rape case was registered by Kanchanbagh police against two men hailing from Kolkata. Complaints were lodged against 40-year old Mansoor and 28-year-old Hasan, who were staying at a rented house in Omer Colony.
6. Date: 19/07/2012 Â Place:Indore
A  brutal tale of a mechanic was reported  in Indore, who pierced the genitals of his wife and inserted a lock there in order to prevent her from having an affair is such a barbaric act that it belies the fact that we’re living in the 21st century. The mechanic, Sohan Lal, was later arrested.
7. Date: 09/07/2012 Place: Guwahati
On the late hours on GS Road, a teenage girl was allegedly molested and manhandled by a crowd of approximately 30 people outside a bar, many of whom were subsequently arrested based on video footage of the event. Although the girl tried breaking away and asking for help, she was dragged back twice into the mob and abused further. The case caused uproar in the national and local media right after the video was aired by News Live, going viral on YouTube  and provoking debates about the safety of women and human rights in India.By 20 July 2012, 12 of the 22 accused were arrested
8. Date: 05/07/2012 Place: Madhya Pradesh
A 20-year-old woman’s husband, his relatives and neighbours repeatedly raped her while she was confined to a cowshed in a village in Madhya Pradesh’s Sagar district for three years as her family couldn’t meet her in-laws’ dowry demands. She was later sold to a moneylender in May.
9. Date: Â 20/06/2012 Â Place: New Delhi
The Delhi police arrested French consulate official Pascal Mazurier on charges of raping his four-year-old daughter after dithering for five days on a complaint filed by his wife. The 39-year-old deputy head of chancery was produced before a magistrate, who remanded him in judicial custody for 14 days as the French embassy in Delhi declined to step in and defend him.
10. Date: 27/02/2012Â Place: Noida
In a yet  brutal assault on a girl in a moving car, a 17-year-old class X student of a city public school was allegedly gangraped by five of her neighbours as they drove around Noida in their i10.  More shockingly Police not only let out personal details about the minor victim at a press conference , but also made tactless remarks about her character, declaring that she had been “willingly drinking vodka†with the boys to celebrate a birthday.