How many rape cases are reported in India every year? According to TOI in 2014, a rape occurs every half an hour in India. We can be pretty sure there are many more cases get which gets hushed up. Back in 2012, Nirbhaya rape case became a national issue which brought into focus how safe India is for women. But then a lot of people came in defence saying that many of the rape … [Read more...]
SC Asks Convict To Beg Girl For Mercy As Punishment. What’s Next, Saying Sorry?
Justice in India can be described with different adjectives...and not always the good ones. Sometime back, we got an example of a shocking justice in a rape case, which left us stunned and agitated. In a country like ours, justice is delayed, twisted, shocking, denied, controversial, actually everything but real and true. Today’s morning news brought up a new face of … [Read more...]
The Country Without Justice: Remembering Jiah Khan Before Pancholi Appears As “Hero”
So, we live in a country where criminals have the free will to do whatever they wish to. A country where investigation is secondary and duty is not even counted. We are citizens of that country where Damini’s Rapist is roaming around free, or, where a 16 year old boy’s best friend’s mother who raped him, hasn’t been accused yet, it’s been 6 months, already. Jiah Khan, the … [Read more...]
Shocking Justice: “COURT” Orders To Rape Two Women And Parade Them Naked
Do you know what a kangaroo court is? For those who don’t know, a “kangaroo court” is a judicial tribunal or assembly which is held in rural villages that blatantly disregards recognized standards of law or justice, and often carries little or no official standing in the territory within which it resides. [Source: Wikipedia] This story is about two girls Meenakshi kumari … [Read more...]
Is Our Judicial System Sensitized To Handle Rape Victims?
It has been almost 3 years since the Nirbhaya case. The protests, desperate calls for reform, media attention have died down, and life in India has returned to normal. Normalcy in our country is synonymous with turning a blind eye to the oppressed, restoring to patriarchy and reiterating the fact that women empowerment, though widely spoken and debated about, is yet to be put … [Read more...]