India has become a land of rapes and Delhi, its rape capital. Around 4 rapes per day take place in Delhi itself. Until June 2013, Delhi witnessed 806 rapes. Figures have doubled this year. Despite carrying out campaigns and protests, rapes continue, unabated in the country.
After the capital witnessed the December 16 gang rape, the government carried out a series of safety measures for the women but where are they helping? We cannot see any improvements and figures have doubled than what they were in 2012. According to reports, East Delhi has witnessed over 122 cases followed by southeast with over 106 and southwest with around 102. The number of molestation cases have rose by 6 times, with 1780 cases reported in the first six months of 2013 as against 270 such cases for the same period last year.
People who say that the clothes or the dressing of a girl or a women is the reason behind rapes, for their knowledge, reports suggest that around 48% of the victims wore salwar-kurtas, another 41% wore sari and around 11% young children were in frocks at the time they were raped.
Where is India heading with such shame? With rapes increasing with every passing hour, do you think India will ever be called a developed country or will it be called a 'Rape developed Country'? Not just the city roads, but with the recent case of a 7 year old girl raped in a train, even the trains are unsafe in India now. From a bus to a train, everything is unsafe for women. What are they supposed to do? Sit locked inside their houses?
The rapists have no fear of laws or the government. Rape has become a play game for the assaulters, as there are no strict laws against them. Why shall the women not go out at nights and why cant the government make strict laws against the rapists?
"I live in Delhi for my studies, miles away from my family. My family calls me every 2 hours to know where I am. Its not that they don't trust me, its that they don't trust the city. Rapes everywhere! We girls sometimes feel tied in an independent country.", says Shivani, a non-delhite and a student of Delhi University.
"I will simply blame the country for it could not make stricter laws and it could not bring education in the poor strata of the society. The illiterate people are mostly the ones raping. The Indian government has failed in every aspect, right from the failure of economy to the failure of combating rapes.", says an angry and concerned male student from Hansraj College.
The government needs to come out with strict laws for the rapists. Rapes cannot be combated unless there are laws, which instill fear in hearts and minds of the attackers. Measures like Capital Punishment need to be taken forward and the government will need to put forth the strictest laws against the assaulters in order to control and minimize the fear of rape, every woman in the country goes through.
Sources:lifestyle
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