A fashion shoot depicting a woman being sexually assaulted on a bus has stirred memories of the fatal gang rape of a young woman in 2012, outraging the victim’s parents and activists who have demanded action against the photographer.
The December 2012 attack on the woman on the bus created upheaval in India, triggering days of protests over pervasive violence against women.
The woman, a 23-year-old physiotherapist, was lured onto a bus in New Delhi and repeatedly gang-raped and sexually tortured with an iron rod by five men and a teenager. She subsequently passed away due of her injuries.
The pictures for the fashion spread were taken by Mumbai photographer Raj Shetye and posted this week on the photography site Behance.
The series of pictures, called “The Wrong Turn”, showed a young woman in different outfits, fending off a group of young men on a bus. The pictures have since been removed from the site.
