One rape every twenty minutes somewhere in India. Age no bar to the depraved male :from the tender age of 3 to 80 . Among the rapists are judges,teachers,police officials, political leaders,spiritual guides,and close relatives including even own fathers. Law sleeps and the ruling classes are apathetic. Justice is often denied to the helpless victims by inordinate delay :more than one lakh rape cases are pending in the country from the trial courts to the Supreme Court. A very frustrating scenario.
Nirbhaya's gruesome rape and murder in Delhi shocked the nation.Her memory is again brought back to the public domain when the BBC documentary India's Daughter was telecast in UK and was made available through the internet. Indian politicians shouted in different platforms as they saw some political advantage. The government of India banned the documentary in India, blocked websites,and initiated legal action against the documentary maker.The views of the rapist and his lawyers are despicable and cause utmost revulsion. But by banning the documentary the state has kept the real problem under the carpet rather than facing it by making people watch the documentary and debate.
Rape is a psychosocial legal phenomenon which has been increasing in an alarming manner in India.It cannot be dealt with unless the rapists' mindset is understood. Also the attitude of those who are opinionmakers and who wield power. Let us have a glimpse of some views:
●Boys are boys (former UP CM and Union Minister, whose view was criticized even by the UN Secretary General)
●By wearing jeans women provoke men to rape as they think beyond the jeans (celebrated iconic singer Padma Bhushan K.J.Yesudas)
●Don't you have any other news?(Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah when the media asked him questions on the rape of a 7 year old in her school).
Women are objects of pleasure to the males in a society where commodification of the female is taken for granted. Law enforcement agencies are often indifferent even in filing FIR and the police officials are accomplices of the rapists in many instances.When a 16 year old speech and hearing impaired girl was raped in Tamilnadu, police tried to establish it as "masturbation" with the support of a doctor,a woman.
What happened recently in Nagaland when the people broke the jail and lynched the rapist should be a warning to our governments and the insensitive officials. Let not the Indian masses take the law into their hands for inaction of the power structure.
Nirbhaya's gruesome rape and murder in Delhi shocked the nation.Her memory is again brought back to the public domain when the BBC documentary India's Daughter was telecast in UK and was made available through the internet. Indian politicians shouted in different platforms as they saw some political advantage. The government of India banned the documentary in India, blocked websites,and initiated legal action against the documentary maker.The views of the rapist and his lawyers are despicable and cause utmost revulsion. But by banning the documentary the state has kept the real problem under the carpet rather than facing it by making people watch the documentary and debate.
Rape is a psychosocial legal phenomenon which has been increasing in an alarming manner in India.It cannot be dealt with unless the rapists' mindset is understood. Also the attitude of those who are opinionmakers and who wield power. Let us have a glimpse of some views:
●Boys are boys (former UP CM and Union Minister, whose view was criticized even by the UN Secretary General)
●By wearing jeans women provoke men to rape as they think beyond the jeans (celebrated iconic singer Padma Bhushan K.J.Yesudas)
●Don't you have any other news?(Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah when the media asked him questions on the rape of a 7 year old in her school).
Women are objects of pleasure to the males in a society where commodification of the female is taken for granted. Law enforcement agencies are often indifferent even in filing FIR and the police officials are accomplices of the rapists in many instances.When a 16 year old speech and hearing impaired girl was raped in Tamilnadu, police tried to establish it as "masturbation" with the support of a doctor,a woman.
What happened recently in Nagaland when the people broke the jail and lynched the rapist should be a warning to our governments and the insensitive officials. Let not the Indian masses take the law into their hands for inaction of the power structure.
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