Its safe to rape in India
January 7th 2009 04:39
It’s safe to rape in Uttar Pradesh
With election year here and political parties in UP inducting criminals into their ranks incidence of rape in the state could increase. The Noida Gang rape victim could be just the first.
Teenaged collge students are most vulnerable to crimes against women and taxpayers and voters have to take their elected representatives and the police force to task and parents who pay several lakhs of fees for courses in private colleges have to insist on special security for girls. After all you are paying for it DAMMIT.
Before 2008 bid goodbye a significant move took place in UP a mafia don, Anna Shukla the uncle of a Gang Rape accused was inducted into the ruling party and given patronage. Will the minor rape victim now ever get justice? It seems unlikely. But what seems likely is that with election year 2009 here and goondas getting the blessing of their political mentors the parents of young girls especially teenaged girls studying in colleges in Ghaziabad and Noida need to beware because the NOIDA gang rape of a Lajpat Nagar girl is not an isolated case and we can expect a huge rise in cases of rape in 2009 unless the police take very proactive measures rather than knee jerk measures. An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure but in a state where criminals are rapidly getting political patronage the situation is bound to worsen as the elections approach and criminals are given a free hand. A report of the Delhi-based National Crime Records Bureau shows India’s shameful record when it comes to rape. In 2007, there were 20,737 reported cases of rape. This works out to a horrific 2.37 rapes every hour.
In Feb 2007 in Ballia in Uttar Pradesh 13 women labourers — mostly Bihar tribals — were raped in Bheempur police circle. According to police reports, a group of about two-dozen men entered a brick kiln. They first took all the labourers and their families residing in makeshift hutments within the kiln compound hostage and then separated the women from the lot. Thirteen of them, including three minors, were then raped. In Uttar Pradesh even the medical college is not safe for women. Rake the Chhatrapati Sahuji Maharaj Medical University (CSMMU), a technician, raped a patient inside the College on the pretext of getting her X-ray done. He bolted the door from inside and allegedly raped her. The hapless girl screamed and raised an alarm. Reacting to this, her father and other patients waiting there tried to open the door, but in vain. And at last the girl emerged out of the room with telling effect of her humiliation and exploitation.
Crime is clearly associated with social conditions. A society based on an unequal distribution of wealth creates crimes of property. Under capitalism the majority of people are dependent on selling their labour power for wages in order to gain access to the necessities of life. Since a proportion either earn too little or are unemployed, the only means of satisfying their needs is by stealing or going into debt. Writing in 1844 Engels noted that crime was rising faster in England than elsewhere. In particular it was rising in the new industrial cities. By booking at levels of education, Engels decided that “nearly all crimes arise within the proletariat”. The same is true today. Women with the least financial security – low paid jobs and or low paid partners, poor housing and no access to a car – stood a greater chance of being assaulted or verbally abused because of their race or nationality ... The chances of experiencing assault or abuse are high if you are black and high if your income is low. Figures show that women from middle and upper middle class backgrounds derive greater authority and confidence from their overall position in society than do many young working class women. This might well have a bearing on some women being able to stop rapes from taking place. But equally, it may well be the case that working class women are simply more vulnerable because of having to rely on poor public transport, live on rotten estates and the like.
So what do girl students have in common with women from the lower strata of society? They commute under rotten conditions, live and work without the protection of their parents and college authorities are state authorities are the least bothered about their welfare and security.
A lot can be done to provide security to women. For one taxpayers and voters have to take their elected representatives and the police force to task and parents who pay several lakhs of fees for courses in private colleges have to insist on special security for girls. After all you are paying for it DAMMIT.
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Comment by atula
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Such incidence are bad and the criminals should be given severe punishments..but these things do happen in other parts of the world to....
Please be careful before putting a generalised statement about a country specaiily in your headline.....
thanks
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