HOW SAFE ARE OUR WOMEN IN INDIA?

My dear Friends, here is a chilling account of an incident that occurred a few days back in the Capital city of our country. A place that everyone looks up to as the most prestigious, elite class of cities with innumerable people who are called as “The Cream of High Society”.  But has anyone seen the other side of Mid-night? Please do read on.

A medical student on her way from home after duty was gang raped by a group of six jerks in New Delhi on the 16^th of December.  Her boyfriend escorted her.  She is struggling for her life on a ventilator.

It must be noted that less than an hour before the rape incident, the men on the bus reportedly called out to a carpenter and offered him a ride. He got on unawares and was robbed.  The innocent man was dumped out of the bus on a busy road, which is very close to the well-known INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. The bus then headed towards the stop where the young lady and her friend were waiting to board a bus to take them home. 

The men, including the bus driver, had taken out the bus for a joy ride on the evening of the incident. According to the police, they were all drinking before the incident and practically moonlighting, hoping to make an extra buck.  They spotted the student with her friend at the bus stop, called out to them saying they were headed to the place where she  lives and pulled over.  As per the reports, the young lady and her friend boarded the bus, assuming that this was one of the many privately operated buses that are treated like public transport in Delhi.   They bought the tickets and boarded the bus.

On the bus, an argument began when the accused asked the lady’s friend what he was doing with a young woman at that time of the night.  Since when have the bus drivers begun “Moral Policing”?  That was none of his or her business to investigate on anyone’s private life.  They were soon being harassed for being out at night, which was approximately around 8:15 PM. When her friend intervened to help her, the attackers gagged him and then began hitting him mercilessly with an iron rod. She tried to protect him and the men on the bus decided she “SHOULD BE PUNISHED”.  She was hit with the same rod and gang-raped in the most heinous and demeaning manner in the driver’s cabin where she was forcibly taken, while the driver kept the bus moving.  Having sated their satanical and insatiable hunger and lust for a woman’s flesh for a certain point of time, (as per the Friend’s revelation it was 90 minutes of torture for the young lady, who was physically assaulted with the iron rod on her face, her private parts, the internal organs ruptured), the couple was thrown semi-naked onto the road.

They were found unconscious there, by a passer-by who informed the police. They were then taken to hospital, where the woman has undergone multiple surgeries and is on ventilator support with what the doctors have described as “irreparable damage” to her abdomen and intestines.  Doctors say that her condition is very critical.  The abdomen and the intestine are not in the right place. This was an absolutely abominable act, which ought to be condemned by anyone who has the least bit of remorse and humanity in them.

My friends, don’t you feel that this act calls for some thinking?  Is this not a gross violation of human rights? Are a boy and a girl being together a crime? It appears that the criminals have no fear for the laws of this country, as they admit openly that they are remorseless.  If the men are questioning the girl and her friend as to what they were doing out at night, may I ask those hoodlums what were they doing at that hour of the night too? Is being out on the road only the privilege of the males?  The question arises now as to how safe are our women in this country that worships the female deities and seeks her blessings for all their wants. What is the Center doing about the ever-increasing crime rate in our country?  When it comes to discussions on sensitive issues on women in the Parliament they have NO TIME.  Why are our laws so lenient that every criminal is treated like a king?

Laws should be deterrent. We need more of implementation of strict laws rather than verbal talks from the members of the Parliament. There is more of verbal diarrhea on rules that are only on paper.  No wonder the criminals are making hay under such an atmosphere. The fear of the corporal punishment ceases to exist.   When will the Center really really wake up?  We find that 30% of the Security and the Police Force are on VIP duty. Isn’t this outrageous? Where is all our tax that is being paid so judiciously by us the common man going?

 My Question to all is – “why is it that the statement in the end always comes as a blame game on the women as “She asked for it.” Why cannot the men be put on a leash? As someone once said, “We men have a defective gene somewhere”. Yes that is really very true. Men just cannot control their lust when they see a woman.  Why is it that they lose their self-control at the sight of a woman? Where has their will power gone? Look at this picture - who are the men to question on what a woman wears?  My message to those perverts is this -"Thank your stars SHE  has not come naked in front of you. Where has your lustful senses gone out of place? 

There were even young men who got the information all warped up on the wrong side of the brain, and who had the audacity to tell me, "But aunty she should have dressed decently and not scantily."  Oh really!! When a woman is fully clothed from head to foot in a Punjabi dress or even a pair of Jeans, or the traditional Indian NAARI, in a saree, even then she is raped. And for those trying to enlighten me - In this case, the young student was fully clothed, in New Delhi's Winter, BUT I insist on the BUT,  she was thrown out in a semi-naked condition.  Who the hell has the answer to that?  These men think that they are all PURITANS, the so-called SAINTS.

I am writing this blog because I am so depressed, yes; I am so disturbed at the lawlessness of our country. I like any young mother have so many questions to ask from our law makers and from the Government – Why? Why are you so partial to the women folk of our country? How can you guarantee to us mothers that our daughters are safe?  Can you assure us that once our daughters go out of the house to earn a respectable living, will they come back safely, physically, mentally, emotionally to carry on their daily tasks and routine chores with their heads held high in dignity and pride?  Can you?

I am sick of all the “YES MINISTERS”.  It is time for me to cry out in despair – ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!