ASSAULT AGAINST WOMEN IS AN ASSAULT AGAINST SOCIETY
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“The murderer destroys the physical body of the victim; The rapist degrades the very soul of the victim”i
An incident happened in the year 2012 and it took more than 7 years for the law to provide justice to the victim and her family.
For years we have been taught, a coin has two sides. You flip the coin, one side wins, the other side loses. We have been living in a society where women live their lives similar to a coin. On one hand Goddesses like Saraswati, Lakshmi is worshipped and on the other, women of every age are raped.
Maintenance of peace and order is essential in any society for human beings to live peacefully without any fear of their lives or property but there is hardly any society which is without the problem of crime.
To ‘forcible seize’ someone is to rape them. ‘Rape’ is the forcible ravishment of a woman done against her will and consent. It is against the basic human rights and also violates the victim’s fundamental rights, mainly, right to life in Article 21 and gender equality in Article 15.Where earlier, the involvement with the genitals of a female was termed as a rape, after the 2013 Amendment, now, even looking at someone with a wrong intention is raping them. Newly described by the 2013 Amendment under Section 375 IPC ‘a rapist not only violates the victim’s integrity but leaves indelible marks on the very soul of the helpless female’.ii
A similar incident happened on December 16th 2012. The Delhi gang-rape case, where a 23year-old female physiotherapy intern, went through a fatal assault in Munirka and was beaten, tortured and gang-raped by 6 men, including the bus driver, in a private bus in which she was travelling with her male friend.iii
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