Well, I'm quite sad and frustrated while writing my point of view over this topic but I think it's needed to be highlighted. Yes, I am talking about rapes and the injustice against women happening continuously in our society. Many cases of rapes, murder, killings are reported every day. I wonder, in countries like India, on one hand, we use to worship females as the goddess and on the other hand, we are witnessing such treatment with females. It is a matter of great concern now and we all are required to raise our voices against this.
Rapes in India;
Rapes are on such a verge in our country that Rape culture is promoting like any western culture trend. Each day around 87 cases are reported all over India and several others don't have any existence in terms of data but exist.
Let's throw light on the rape cases happening every day in India. Rape is reported as the 4th most common crime against women in India. According to some data, one woman reports raped every 15 minutes in India. I know my country is developing in all fields but I never expected its development in the field of crimes, rapes, and other inhumane treatments as well.
Like a dirty fish makes the water of the whole pond dirty, in the same way, only a group of people are destroying the pride and name of India. Whenever such a shameful act ever happens, we use to blame the government and the police only but we never blame ourselves. It is our mistake as well. Everyone is so much obsessed with his social image up to the extent that whenever their child reports about physical assault or about molestation, they simply ask to shut her mouth up. Why? Just because of their fake profile of a few cents. To hell with this thinking.
We usually see when a group of boys behaves improperly with a girl and also tries to harass her as well, parents use to ask her to avoid those bastards. Why?
Just one question from my side, Is your fake profile or so-called respect in society more worthy than your child?
We usually don't report small instances of harassment and molestation and ignore them, which in the future gives rise to bigger crimes like rapes, murders, and these days murder after rape.
Murders and Rapes are quite normal these days. A girl is raped and it takes years to serve her justice. For two days, everyone cares, shows sympathy to the victim, does protests over social media, outrages were broken out, trends hashtags of justice, and a lot more stuff, and then everyone completely forgets about it. The criminal mentality grows thinking ''who's gonna punish us. It literally will take a number of years and then what!'' And maybe this is the reason, these crimes are growing at such a positive growth rate.
Recently a very cruel incident took place in the Hathras District of UP state of our country that completely shook the whole of India. Here, a 19 yr old girl was gang-raped by a group of four. According to some reports, there was a wide-angle of ''casteism'' also involved in this. Four men of high castes gang-raped a low caste girl. I mean, Literally, casteism over humanity. Such a matter of shame for us! This is quite frustrating and after this, we can just think, how unsafe a female in our country is!
Some of the so-called intellectuals always use to blame the woman for the cause of rape by blaming her clothes and her other wearings. According to them, women are raped because they use to wear short dresses and as a result boy loses their control. Just one question to challenge their mentality, why a girl covering the whole body (usually wearing burkha) is raped then? Everyone is aware of the incidences where minors and even children are raped. What's their mistake then? Was it their clothes?
When a girl child of 4 years was raped, Was she wearing any short skirt?
This narrow mentality is one of the root causes of growing rape cases in our country. These narrow-minded people use to blame the victim for rape always, which is a nuisance in a real sense.
Because of the terror of this harassment and molestation, females are usually not allowed to leave home at night. Because of these crimes, girls use to live under a large number of strict rules and many restrictions. Girls are always asked to remain at home and not go outside. But here is also a twist, several rape cases these days are reported in which the rape is done at home and that too by some relatives of the victim. This simply means, there's no place safe for a girl these days. Whether home or road, public place, or a private apartment, women are gonna assaulted and rape always. Is this the kind of democratic and a developed country we all wanted?
How can we forget the case of Nirbhaya, which took place in December 2012, and the accused were punished in 2020. It takes more than 7 years to serve justice to Nirbhaya. Convicted were hung after 7 years. The justice was delayed by 7 years and it is often said, justice delayed is justice denied.
Many other crimes are also associated with rape culture like casteism, sexual harassment, molestation, verbal abuse, eve-teasing, etc. All these crimes are interlinked with each other and finally results in rape and murders. All these problems are needed to be tackled in order to bring some change.
Well, I'm no one to blame the law. Our judiciary is capable enough to make the right decisions at the right time always and I pray that all the victims got their justice as soon as possible. But one thing that we all needed to realize is the numbers and data. There are more than 1.3 lakh rape cases still pending in court. The number of judges is so less that more than 85% of cases are carry forwarded to the next year. Don't you think even our judiciary needs some changes as well?
A message from my side;
I just want to advise everyone to stand up and raise their voice every time they encounter any injustice. Start supporting girls and make them confident enough so that they'd be able to discuss the problems and the issues with parents and start taking legal action against convicts without any hesitation.
Along with this, every boy must be taught to respect girls. We can start this simply by introducing some basic education in schools and by running some awareness camps as well. We can tackle this problem up to a great extent by teaching and educating them. Along with education, there is a need for the introduction of self-defense classes for females as well. Every female should learn the act of self-defense as well.
A very basic education can produce a change. Proper sex education should be taught to everyone irrespective of their gender. Mainly rape cases arise because of the lack of proper sex education in our country so there is a need to introduce it.
We can also take care that whenever a girl uses to report about the case of her assault or molestation or rape, she shouldn't be undergoing any mental torture or any other pressure. She should be fully supported.
And lastly, the main thing, Start taking a stand against injustice. Start raising your voice. Start by bringing the change in yourself first, in order to change the whole system.
Jai Hind!
Peace!
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