As
I keep shuffling through the morning papers daily, I regularly get disappointed
at the news of rapes happening at Mumbai, my loved city. It was never the scenario when I had first
walked into the city 5 years back, it was safer than any other city in India
and I had seen girls walk around in groups as late as 2 am on Marine drive and
other gullies of Mumbai, but this was a different time I guess, as now after
the Nirbhaya and Shakti Mills rape accidents happening either there has been an
upsurge of such events happening or rather I was ignorant of the same, but one
way or another the result is rather depressing and has me worried about the
state of the city/county for Women.
Every
single day as I browse the newspaper for some good news, I come to find only
the bad and depressing new of crimes against women, what disappoints me further
is that there have been no strict laws to curb this and people are still naïve of
the ones existing, with crimes such as rapes becoming a matter of stupid social
standing people turn back from resorting to judicial machinery, in the light of
the Nirbhaya Case verdict I think there has been a change in the judicial system
and they are looking at it as a serious offence, its sad that a young girl had
to die a brutal death for a nation to awake.
Maybe
the judiciary is blind indeed as the famous statue of the blind lady holding
weights in her hand represents, but then as a lawyer I feel that the time has
come to put more deterrent actions into play, we have only life imprisonment
and life term, in life imprisonment the convict is in the jail and after a time
gets used to its life there and then there is nothing that will make things
right for the rape survivor and death sentence for once and for all kills the
person committing the crime. What I personally
think is that when such a heinous crime as rape happens, why not the wrong doer
be treated to equal pain and trauma by something which is popularly know as “Chemical
Castration”.
India
has been a liberal democratic, but maybe its time to change somethings and
tweak the judicial model to strike fear in the minds of wrong doer, with such punishments as “Chemical Castration”
coming into play and the present convicts being punished retrospectively I am
pretty sure that it will, if not stop but atleast curb the rate at which such
crimes happen and people will become more and more aware of it.
I
fear for the females close to me, the female members of my family and my very
close female friend/s who venture out in the city daily for their daily
activities. I fear for their safety even
though I know that one of my closest female friend is capable of pounding a guy
single handedly with one blow being the fighter she is, but still maybe the spate of the country has
made the situation like this, but If I come across an chance, through my
profession to change this situation then I will make sure that what I just
proposed above should come into play soon.
I not only am angry for crimes against women in Mumbai but for the whole
of India, I know that the change will be slow but it would hopefully be,
eventual. The change has to start from every single home in this country, to start with, treating women equally and not
as inferior beings and to teach kids how to respect women and not to tolerate any
kind of violence against females.
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