Rape in India!!

Our first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru said: "You can tell the condition of nation by looking at the status of its women".

When we think about India and its women, first thing that comes into my mind is RAPE.
Countless number of women are raped all over the country, only some of which get to the limelight.
Let me show you the history of some cases, condition of victims and the judicial action against the culprits.

Aruna Shanbaug Case

One of the oldest rape that was covered widely by the media was that of Aruna Shanbaug. She was raped by a contracted sweeper, Sohanlal Bhartha Walmiki while working as a junior nurse at KEM Hospital in Mumbai. As a result of the assault during which Sohanlal choked her with a dog chain, Aruna has been in a vegetative state for the last 40 years. Her euthanasia plea was rejected by the supreme court in 2011 but the landmark judgment was made to allow passive euthanasia in India.

 Sister became stranger

Aruna’s elder sister, Shanta Nayak, kept herself away from Aruna all these years fearing she might have to take care of her. The one person whom Aruna could fall back on avoided her at her time of need.

Culprit walks free

The worst part of this case is that the culprit was acquitted after serving in jail only for robbery and attempt for murder, and not rape. The rape was kept a secret as per the instructions of the dean of the KEM Hospital. He concealed the rape considering that Aruna would be rejected by the society and her approaching marriage would stand affected.

We pray that Aruna Shanbaug, who was cruelly denied the right to live by a man more despicable than anything else in the universe, is able to find joy wherever she is now.

Delhi Gang Rape

The most notorious of all rape cases has to be the Delhi gang rape of 2012. A physiotherapy intern was raped by 6 men while she was travelling in a bus with her friend in New Delhi. She was brutally raped and injured by inserting an iron rod in her vagina and later died due to her injuries. The case brought about a lot of public outrage as thousands of people spontaneously gathered in the streets of Delhi to protest against the gang rape. 1 of the accused was treated as a minor and given a sentence of 3 years in a reform facility, the main accused Ram Singh allegedly committed suicide while in police custody and the remaining 4 accused have been sentenced to death by hanging.

Its the same girl in the picture, what was her crime?

Just being a girl? Or roaming freely in the night?

The victims, a 23-year-old woman, Jyoti Singh Pandey, and her friend, Awindra Pratap Pandey, were returning home on the night of 16 December 2012 after watching the filmLife of Pi in Saket, South Delhi. They boarded an off-duty charter bus at Munirka for Dwarka that was being driven by joyriders at about 9:30 pm. There were only six others on the bus, including the driver. One of the men, a minor, had called for passengers telling them that the bus was going towards their destination. Pandey's friend became suspicious when the bus deviated from its normal route and its doors were shut. When he objected, the group of six men already on board, including the driver, taunted the couple, asking what they were doing alone at such a late hour.

When Pandey's friend tried to intervene, he was beaten, gagged and knocked unconscious with an iron rod. The men then dragged Pandey to the rear of the bus, beating her with the rod and raping her while the bus driver continued to drive. Medical reports later said that she suffered serious injuries to her abdomen, intestines and genitals due to the assault, and doctors said that the damage indicated that a blunt object (suspected to be the iron rod) may have been used for penetration. That rod was later described by police as being a rusted, L-shaped implement of the type used as a wheel jack handle.

Awindra Pratap Pandey, the man who was attacked, is a software engineer from Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, who lives in Ber Sarai, New Delhi; he suffered broken limbs but survived.

She died on 29th December 2012.

Most rapes go unreported because the rape victims fear retaliation and humiliation - in India and elsewhere in the world. Indian parliamentarians have stated that the rape problem in India is being underestimated because large number of cases are not reported, even though more victims are increasingly coming out and reporting rape and sexual assaults.

 Pity on such a system and country where female deities are worshiped but women are treated in a pathetic way!!

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