Law Making
and Predicament of By Muhammad Javed Qasmi
Women
The writer is a teacher at Haque Education and Research Foundation (HERF), Kanpur, DP
T
he brutal gang rape of 23year -old woman on a moving bus in Delhi on the night of December 16, 2012 stirred the conscience of a nation. One year has passed but still the horrific memory haunts the sensitive members of the country at every step. As this dreadful incident animated the government regarding women’s safety, in the same way it created self-awareness in every high and low sections of the society. People came out of their respective houses and showing resentment demanded that rapists must be hanged as soon as possible. Their anger and agitation was absolutely right. As a result, acting promptly the Indian government formed the Justice Verma committee to
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make laws better regarding rape, sexual harassment and violence against women. A few months later, people saw change in laws as the tougher rules and regulations were enforced. But despite it, there is no dearth in rape cases and violence against women. Every other day a heinous rape incident is reported in newspapers. According to an international organization, Action Aid, within a year, only in Delhi there was a two fold increase in rape cases while there was a four fold increase in sexual harassment, molestation and
to say that the policy and law makers concentrated only on rules and regulations. They did not bother to ponder upon the reasons and factors which push people into these kinds of brutal crimes. If really India and its inhabitants are concerned about the predicament of women and wish to put an end on oppression against them, keeping it in mind that woman is an integral part and backbone of the society, and without her the world cannot be complete; some difficult actions will have to be taken. First and foremost all the sources have to be banned which encourage men
oppression. After the implementation of the new laws there should have been at least somehow a drop in the cases. But it did not happen so. It shows that tough laws are not enough to handle such cases.. If it is taken seriously, it will not be wrong
to tyrannize women. It may be hard but definitely, success will follow if proper steps are taken. Nakedness, pornographic movies, drinking, seeing lewd pictures and vulgar reading materials etc. are the main factors, which incite people to commit brutal rape. The young