Rape Happens Every Time And We Forget These Cases Like They Never Happened - The Evidence Is Here

I think it is not mandatory, we can talk about it any day. I think we should talk about this until the change happens. For example, if our freedom fighters had waited for something to happen every time - would we have ever secured freedom. No, I don't think so. We have to be strong against such heinous crime otherwise these things will never end.

We remain active until the news comes in the headlines, and later we pay little attention to these matters. The same happened in the case of Hathras rape. As long as the details were blaring on newspaper headlines and television screens, everyone broadcasting on social media remained active. This was the case of a young Dalit girl, not yet 20 years old, was dragged into the fields, gang-raped by four upper castes, cut off her tongue, fractured her spine, and left to die. Her mother hears her screams, finds the bleeding daughter, the family first arrives at the police station, then to a hospital in Aligarh, and when her condition worsens, she is shifted to a Delhi hospital, Where after two weeks his grief began. The dead body was cremated by the police at night without the consent of his family.

This horror opened in the Boolgadhi village of Hathras district in UP, but it could just as easily have been any other part of the country, Rajasthan, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, or Telangana. 

On the day the Hathras victim died, a Dalit woman in Rajasthan’s Ajmer district claimed she had been gang-raped by three men.

Twenty-four hours later, a 22-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly gang-raped and murdered by two Muslim youths in UP’s Balrampur district. 

On October 2, a Dalit teenage girl in Bihar’s Gaya district committed suicide after four men allegedly gang-raped her. 

Only a week later, the state saw a lower court convicting five Gurjar men of gang-raping a 19-year-old Dalit girl in front of her fiance in Rajasthan’s Alwar district last year. 

In August, a 75-year-old Dalit woman was brutally gang-raped in Ernakulam, Kerala. 

In August 2019 after a 19-year-old Dalit woman, who was allegedly gang-raped by four of her friends, succumbed to multiple internal injuries in her home town Aurangabad.

The Curse of Being a Dalit Woman

The Dalit woman in India is thrice deprived, being a woman, a Dalit, and poor. Her body is the site for forwarding castes to method out punishment for what they perceive as the growing assertion of Dalits, whether politically, economically, or in terms of education. Shame and a sense of dishonor prevent her most times from reporting such cases in the first place. When she does approach law enforcers, the police remain hesitant to file FIRs (first information reports), either due to political pressure or their caste and gender biases, given that they are drawn from the socio-culture background. And in case she manages to move actively, her chances of getting justice remain limited, the rate of conviction in cases of rape against Dalits is just 32 %. The Scheduled Castes/ Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, which made offenses against SCs/STs are non-bailable and provided for special courts for trials, remains weak in implementation, even if it is strong on purpose. The overall conviction rate remains poor at 33 percent, and 94 percent of the cases under this stringent act are pending at different stages of trial and investigation.

CASTE NOT THE ONLY FACTOR

The rise in sexual crimes and barbaric atrocities isn’t fuelled by caste dynamics alone. There are several other triggers behind these inhuman acts, and Dalit women, who have the least amount of social and legal protection, are an easy target. A study says that Dalit women are subjected to more violent forms of sexual crime, such as gang-rape or rape with murder. 

A multitude of factors are responsible for this rise in barbaric crimes, from social tensions, such as - 

• economic disparity
• caste conflicts
• to unregulated access to sexual and violent content helped by the easy availability of mobile phones and cheap internet. 
• ignoring moral and social values, have all caused an overall degradation in society.
• Rape is seen as a tool for avenging past animosity, the scale of brutality goes up.

With over 500 million smartphone users, India made up the third-largest consumer base of a leading pornographic website, according to data it released in 2018. And this even though a ban on porn sites. 

Edited By - Nisha Singhania 

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