By Dr. Shashanka Bose : 1030 ladies have been raped in the five metropolitan cities of India: Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata and Bangalore during the year 2011. This is the recorded figure with the police of these cities, I am sure an equal number have not been recorded as Indian women and their relations shy away from filing such reports. If you consider all the cities, towns and villages of this country then the total number of rape victims will be beyond our imagination.
The surprising part is that the total number of rape incidents reported in the capital of India is more than 50% of the total number filed in all the five metropolitan cities, this everyone feels is not only pathetic but disgraceful for the entire country.
The rape victim looses for ever her face in the society, her future, both personal and career wise, takes a nose dive for a very very long time. The present atmosphere in our country with its culture, customs and traditions makes the life of the victim very difficult , the lady becomes severely depressed and a significant percentage of them commit suicide.
What is the solution?
Education in real sense is the best solution to prevent these beastly acts, literacy alone will not help.
More patrolling by police and home guard people. Lakhs of these government employees are posted for personal security of politicians which they do not require, a large percentage are found doing “Begari” in the houses of bureaucrats, police officers, and other influencal people.
Quick punishment to the guilty and I mean real strong punishment. The driver Ram Singh and his five partners of the Delhi’s ghastly act have been identified and arrested, why wait for anything. I am of the opinion that to start with these people should be publicly whipped, atleast 20 strong ones , This should be carried out in full public view, say in front of Red Fort or in Ram Lila ground with full coverage by media.
Later on the case can go to the court where law will take its own course.
A habitual offender should have a stricter punishment, may be even surgical removal of his genitalia.
Some may say that this is violation of Human Rights, I do not think so because no one gives you right to act like a street dog. I am sure one single punishment like this will be good enough to decrease the incidence of this shameful act.
In Arab countries, people are publicly whipped for alcohol consumption, drug pedaling, sexual aberrations etc. and the crime rates are very low.
I will like to give a clarion call to all able bodied people to raise their voices and insist for a stricter law to be framed in the parliament.
http://www.theindiapost.com/articles/legal-rape-husbands-indias-fastest-growing-crime
This is shameful,how dare they to do so,ans what is doing govt there, I do not know,,,,,,yaaaaaaaaaa