The shameful incident of the gang rape of the 24-year-old that took place yesterday in Noida made me cringe in pain. The Delhi-NCR region is largely becoming unsafe for women. What is even worse is that whenever such an incident takes place, there is but a momentary media hype followed by talk shows, SMS polls, et al, which is of little help to the victim. On the contrary, she is further tortured by her pain being publicised as a national news. No one understands what she must be going through and what effect must it be bearing on her already traumatised being.
This is not the first time that such an unfortunate incident has taken place. What is even more unfortunate is that seldom such cases are solved. The Maulana Azad Medical College and the Swiss Diplomat Rape Cases still remain pending in the courts of law. Considering this scenario, it seems that justice might come, but not before the constant poking and social stigma have robbed the victims off their lives, something what happened in the Hetal Rape Case of Kolkata. The justice came ten long years after the death of the victim. And even after that, despite the accused being awarded the death sentence, the debates were going if the death sentence should be reduced to life imprisonment or something even less than that.
Taking such circumstances into account, it seems evident that it is futile to rely on the legislature for justice. At least in the cases (like in the recent one), where the accused have been arrested, identified, and what more, they have even admitted their crime, the solution is that without victimising the girl any further, the culprits are castrated in public. The trials and further court proceedings may continue at their own pace.
Let it be a lesson for those who think that owing to the slow legislature of the country, they can easily victimise a girl and still go free
Neha Gupta
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