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India Today had a lead story on rape. The cover page highlighted the gory detail that in India a woman is raped every 54 minutes. "Sexual crimes are on the rise in our cities." As a matter of fact, the incidence of rape and crimes against women are much higher, and increasing by the day both in urban and rural areas. A majority of cases do not get reported as common people have no confidence in the police or criminal courts and do not wish to expose victims of such crimes to publicity.
Rape and molestation of women take place all over the world; their incidence is much higher in male-dominated societies than in societies where women matter as much as men. India is still a male-dominated patriarchal society in which women are regarded as lower than second-class citizens. The situation in Pakistan is much worse; there violence against women is more prevalent than in India. Only recently an innocent woman was gang-raped with the sanction of a tribal council. We too have had cases of caste panchayats which are behind the rape of women belonging to another caste to settle old scores. It will take time for the man-woman power equation to be balanced.
In advanced societies, rapists are treated as psychopaths needing medical treatment. In backward societies like ours, they are more often normal people who suddenly feel the urge to expend their lust on unwilling females. Lust can be an expression of love; it can also be an expression of hate, revenge or misdirected masculinity. Whatever be the motivating factors, it is a heinous offence against the dignity of women and deserves suitable punishment.
First we must see that it is the offender and not the victim who is exposed to publicity and public disgrace; with us it is the other way round. Victims of rape get much more unwelcome and often unsympathetic media attention. This has to be reversed.
Another necessary step is to legalise prostitution — carried out in brothels or by call-girls — provided the sex workers are adults and have not been forced into the trade. The more you try to put down prostitution, the higher will be the incidence of crime against innocent women. You may find the idea repulsive but ponder over it and you will realise there is substance in the argument.
A radical change must be brought about in the punishment for crimes against women. We have blindly followed laws which punish such crimes with imprisonment and fines. Neither are deterrent enough to prevent men from committing them. We should re-introduce our age-old methods of exposing rapists to public disgrace before suitably punishing them. Courts should be empowered to order them to be taken to the localities in which they reside, be stripped and lashed. Nothing can knock the macho out of a man than to be humiliated in front of his friends and neighbours. And finally, the most appropriate punishment for a rapist is not being sent to jail for a long period or hanged (as Advani suggests), but to be deprived of his manhood. The sentence of castration should be made mandatory.
The rapists who did INCEST will be punished more severely, we proposed Whole Life Jail + public caning + castration
97 of Every 100 Rapists Receive No Punishment
The other 97 will walk free, facing no consequences for the violent felony they have committed. Because rapists tend to be serial criminals, this leaves communities across the nation at risk of predators.
While the percentage of rapes reported to police has risen in recent years, a majority — 54% — still are not reported, according to the Justice Department. But increasing reporting alone won't solve the problem: only about one out of four reported rapes leads to an arrest, and only about one out of four arrests leads to a felony conviction and incarceration..
HOW SHOULD THEY PUNISH
Is death Penalty enough for rapist? NO - scream women across India. Death is actually an easy way out for a monster who feel powerful by forcing themselves on vulnerable women.
Gang raped, brutally assaulted, beaten senseless and left to die - as the details of this henious crime emerged, a shiver of spine-tingling horror ran through every woman and even left the men aghast. It was not that gang rape was a rare occurrence in Delhi but its frequency and ferocity has outraged not just Delhiites but every Indian.
Most of these people believe that the death penalty will not serve as a deterrent, it would probably only increase the incidents of death after rape.
all the rapists to be castrated and be branded with the word 'RAPIST' on their forehead. So that each time they look at themselves in the mirror they are reminded of the crime they have committed. Put up posters with their faces and let the public decide if they are ready to accept such people in society.
The women are feeling the pain and they want the rapists to go through the same hell that they forced the victim into on the unfortunate night of Saturday. “Death penalty alone would not stop this brutal crime. The offender should be made to feel the same pain, agony, trauma what he gave the poor victim during the crime. Rape is not by need, it is by choice. A severe precedent has to be set to instill a sense of fear in the mind of the offender even before he begins to think about committing this inhumane act. The rapists should bepublicly stoned to death prevent such crimes
