Yesterday (4th Nov 2014); I came across this article where our judiciary overruled verdict of rape in the case of sexual assault on a 65 year old woman who died post attack. If the reason given is to be believed that non consensual - forceful sex with a menopausal woman does not constitute rape. Is the logic for this verdict that fact that such a woman cannot conceive? Then by that count the Court will also have to use the same yardstick for girls that have not achieved puberty. Is this what our "great" nation has come to - allow legal loopholes to sick degenerates to molest children below 9 and women past 50? Both age groups fall in a zone called soft targets.
Each day the newspaper is full of articles citing rape and physical abuse of women and children. Some of the victims have not even completed their first year in this world. Quite a few cases of incestuous rape. Just today there was an article of some thieves robbing a house and then recording the raping of the house owners wife in front of him and his mother as a means of insuring that they don't report the crime. I guess the death penalty awarded to the culprits convicted and in some the cases has had no impact and we are at a point where we may soon be called a land of "Mother-F@%king Barbarians" quite literally given that it's not a North India phenomenon anymore.
Who do we as citizens turn to? Politician? Well didn't you hear what some of this breed had to say on the subject? From saying boys will be boys to stop eating Chinese food to banning swimwear calling it inciting and to top it all getting into the act themselves - this route is not much help. Police of course - right? Wrong. The track record in this department is also not clean either and some believe that rape is linked to " lack of entertainment". Well what about the Judiciary? First the existing laws are all loaded in favour of the rapist; second we have some smart Judges like in the case yesterday making it even worse for the victim; and third, it itself falls victim to those who feel they are above the law.
So what is the answer? Do the people affected take up the law in their own hands to punish the guilty? Wrong as it may sound - is not the system pushing society in that direction? We all read what's going on; offer a few words of sympathy and then what? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. When are we going to get mad enough and not take it anymore?
Each day the newspaper is full of articles citing rape and physical abuse of women and children. Some of the victims have not even completed their first year in this world. Quite a few cases of incestuous rape. Just today there was an article of some thieves robbing a house and then recording the raping of the house owners wife in front of him and his mother as a means of insuring that they don't report the crime. I guess the death penalty awarded to the culprits convicted and in some the cases has had no impact and we are at a point where we may soon be called a land of "Mother-F@%king Barbarians" quite literally given that it's not a North India phenomenon anymore.
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