Rape capital?

Joginder Singh, IPS (Retd)
Media, have described Delhi as not the seat of power and Might, but the rape Capital of India, which is a bit unfair, for the simple reason, that a crime like rape is preventable, only if the people are vigilant. In East Delhi a five-year-old was brutalized sexually on 15th April, 2013 and doctor recovered a bottle and other foreign objects in her private parts. The child was tortured, raped and strangled, till the rapist felt that she was dead, in a room of 5/5 Size.
The accused A married, Bihari, from Muzzaffarnagar was arrested .The second accused, allegedly involved in the brutal rape of a five-yearold girl here a week ago has also been arrested from Bihar, after the police had verified that the claims made by the first accused were true.
The victim’s family alleged that Policemen had offered them Rs 2,000 to hush up the case and they made insensitive remarks.
It was also alleged that police refused to register a rape case after she was rescued, besides accusing the police of refusing to lodge a case when he went to the police station to lodge an FIR.
Rape has become more than common all over the country. It is both under reported, because of the social stigma and under registered because the Police performance is judged by the cases registered.
So everybody, wants to show, that all types of crime is, not only under control.
Some example of the horrible rapes, in the country are as under; At about the same time, a five year old girl was subjected to Ghastly rape and left as Dead, a six year old girl was raped and killed in Aligarh.
A THREE-YEAR-OLD girl was raped after being whisked away from the snuggle of her pregnant mother, who was sleeping on a hospital veranda, in Malappuram , some times back
The critically ravaged girl, found abandoned in another building and was rushed to medical college in Kozhikode ( Kerala), where she was subjected to emergency surgeries.
A 10-YEAR-OLD girl was raped by a youth on the premises of her school, as she had arrived 40 minutes earlier to the opening of the school, in Vidarbha. Elsewhere in Vidarbha, five more cases of rape were reported.
A 45-year-oldman was arrested in connection with the rape of three minor girls—one aged six and the other two aged seven—in a village in Amravati district.’”One of the girls narrated the incident that apparently happened a few days ago.
The two other girls then came forward and accused the same man. The man knew all three. One of the victims is the granddaughter of the man’s cobrother,” In Awandhi village, in Nagpur district, a 25-year-old man Mangesh Chandankhede was arrested for allegedly raping a 11-year-old girl when she was taking bath in her house. Her parents were away working on their farm at that time.
Also a 12-year-old girl from Nagpur alleged that her father had been raping her for the past five months. Her mother reported the matter to the police. The father, Sheikh Aseef Sheikh Habib, a taxi driver, and has been arrested.. To whom the women and children would turn, when their closest relations start exploiting their daughters
In April 2013, a case came to light when the elder daughter, aged 15, approached the police, in Haryana. She alleged that her father, Jaipal, who worked as a daily-wage worker, had been sexually assaulting her for the past three to four years.
She also alleged that he had now started raping her nine-year-old younger sister too. Delhi had 572 rape cases were registered in 2011. But in the same year, it is Madhya Pradesh that reported the highest number of cases for rape (3,406), molestation (6,665) and importation of girls (45) accounting for 14.1%, 15.5% and 56.3% of the respective national totals.
And when it comes to sexual harassment or “eve-teasing”, Andhra Pradesh reported 3,658 cases, accounting for 42.7% of the total number booked in the country. Uttar Pradesh has the dubious distinction of topping the states in dowry deaths as its 2,322 cases accounted for 26.9% of the national tally.
Indeed the victim in such crimes are females irrespective of their age from 6 months to 60 years. The result of slow and inadequate punishments, has lead to the people taking the law into their hand as the following instances of lynching of rapists from all over the country will show.
In a shocking case, an eight-year-old girl was raped in Alwar district of Rajasthan in January, 2013.
The enraged family, wanting to set an example of vigilante justice, tried to lynch one of the two accused in full public view, after tying him to a pole and soundly thrashed him.
Two persons were lynched by angry villagers after they raped a woman at Egra in West Bengal’s, East Midnapore district, in February, 2012. The duo, in their early 30s, reportedly abducted the woman from her house late on Saturday night and forced themselves on her at a nearby ground. After the woman raised an alarm, villagers immediately gathered and beat the men to death.
In August,, 2004 rape victims lynched a criminal who had carried on his attacks for the last ten yeas, as he was being escorted into a courthouse in the city of Nagpur, Maharashtra. After the lynching some of the women told the media the execution was planned: “We could not tolerate the humiliation he subjected us for the past decade
In December, 2012, Four youths in the age group of 17-22 and a middle-aged man were lynched by an irate mob, which also including women, in Jharkhand’s Khunti district. Police said those killed would often go around Manho village teasing girls and women, misbehave with them and also steal cattle and fowl of the villagers. According to the Police, the women were angry about it and they gave vent to their pent up anger by beating them up with canes and pelting them with stones which resulted in their death.
Michael Fox once said that Man is the most dangerous, destructive, selfish, and unethical animal on earth.”
We hear the dictum that law is above everybody else. What is the use of having umpteen laws, when the criminals know that three out of four of them would get away. The result is that people have started lynching and punishing such criminals on their own.
The present criminal justice system, which is slanted only towards the criminals need to be thrown in Indian Ocean, and new pro citizen, criminal justice system should be brought into existence, apart from strengthening the judiciary in the interest of quick justice. The onus should lie on the criminal to prove that he is innocent.
Regrettably, instead of suggesting concrete measures, to deal with frightening crime, the Union Home Minister has said, that Rape happens all over the country.
Dangerous and inhuman rapists need to pay with their lives for the brutalities committed. The Government is there to govern. It appears to have abdicated its responsibility as the criminals are certain that nothing will happen to them. The Government should remember that it is the it is the certainty of being punished and not appeals, that would discourage the crime. (PTI)

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