Growing Rate of Rapes: Law Amendment 'Need of The Hour'

BANGALORE: A nurse is appointed to assist the doctor, not to succumb to death; a girl goes to college to study, not to get molested. A baby girl who is not even 5 years old, some brutal monsters don’t even spare her. The situation is far more pathetic, dreadful and horrible as it appears to be, no one could account for their loss, and nothing can prevent the past mishaps. Rape is not just an on offense; it’s a curse, which few have to bear because of their gender, incapability and sheer misfortune.

And even though, if these ogres are convicted for the aggravated assault they have committed, they will be treated lawfully for their unlawful acts in a country like India.

The Indian Penal Code (IPC- Section 375) defines rape as intentional, unlawful sexual intercourse with a woman, with or without her consent under several circumstances. In India, rapists are sentenced for a period of 1 to 10 years, however most rapists get out of prison within 3-4 years by paying some fine.

The same law applies to all rape cases even those involving sexual assaulting, torturing, beating and leaving the victim to suffer all life and even fatal at times. Even if one keeps the emotions aside, think logically is this mere jail service enough to teach these rapists a lesson? Don’t they deserve a far more severe chastisement?

After the December 16 group assault, high-level state government authorities reported that they would seek for harsher punishments for rape, including death punishment. But, the Human Rights Watch contradicts capital punishment in all circumstances as an irrevocable, insensitive discipline.

The act of a male abducting a female in every possible evil and atrocious way is not at all justified by the laws against the rapists existing in the country; serious amendments are required in certain cases. If the catastrophe can’t be prevented, it might as well be vindicated by giving these rapists an equivalent punishment to suffer the same trauma as the victims do.

Stop questioning woman for her attire, because if you can’t pertain over your lust, it’s your fault not her’s.  Every woman is somebody’s daughter, sister and a wife, today the victim is a stranger, tomorrow it could be your own relative.  And, if the government really wants to curb the growing number of assaults in India, tit for tat should be the ideal rule against any rapist, something more severe than death perhaps.

It isn’t going to stop this way; the anti-rape law should become relentless, stern and rigorous, so that the fear of getting punished will prevent a person from committing any such activity. That’s Fair and Square.

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