Unfortunately, it looks like "Beti Bachao" is just a mere slogan for our honourable Prime Minister. Not a day goes by without a report of a rape case or sexual harassment, at least from Dec 2012, when a 23-year-old physiotherapy student was gang-raped in a moving bus in Delhi. She ultimately succumbed to injuries. Now despite protests by opposition parties demanding justice for Hathras victim, it’s shocking to hear another rape and murder of a Dalit girl in the same state of UP (Balrampur). This shows the Law&Order has completely failed in UP. Criminals and convicts have become fearless, and it’s a really sad state when we have to demand justice and protection from the government. When we will all be treated equally and women feel safe? Hathras rape and murder of a 19-year-old girl speaks of volumes about the harrowing conditions in which young girls live their lives. BJP shall cry for the blood the rapists and gun for the government, wherever they are not in power but will behave differently in states where they are in power. UP police’s step to cremate her body in the dead of night, by apprehending and threatening the victim's parents, who were held “hostages” in their house and couldn’t even see her face or perform the last rites. The UP Government is famous for staged encounters and nexus with criminals and denying the 19-year-old dignity even in death, is appalling. This is the state ruled by a person who calls himself a “Yogi” who looks the other way, encouraging his administration to do the same while the defenseless pulped female victim was treated worse than a discarded rag and unceremoniously cremated by cops. Even stray puppies receive more attention.
India reported 405861 cases of crimes against women in 2019, and UP tops the list with 59853 cases, according to the annual National Crime Record Bureau’s “crime in India” 2019. From 2018, the rate of crime against women has risen by 7.3 percent, with the country recording an average of 87 rapes every day in 2019. Assam reported the highest rate of crimes against women at 117.8 per lakh population.UP also had the highest number of crimes against girl children under the POSCO Act, with 7444 cases followed by Maharashtra, 6402, and MP 6053 cases.
Before forgetting the Hathras the shocking gang rape in Balrampur was a shame. This is the country where women are personified as Goddesses but they are treated without least sense of humanity. Is it not crucial to know where are we going? Is it not our responsibility to protect our daughters from these gruesome happenings?
