IS INDIA SAFE FOR

WOMEN ?
Presented By

NEETHI RAVEENDRAN
NIBINA MOL M A
POOJA R
RADHIKHA HAREENDRAN
RAKHI
 INTRODUCTION

Woman is the companion of man, gifted with

equal rights , mental abilities. She has the
right of freedom and liberty as that of her
male counterpart. Then, why today, in a
country like India, she doesn’t feel safe and
secure?
 WOMEN IN ANCIENT INDIA
• Women in ancient India were held in high esteem.
• The position of a woman in the Vedas and the
Upanishads was that of a mother (maata) or
goddess (Devi).
• In the Manusmriti, woman was considered as a
precious being.
• With the passage of time, the status of woman was
lowered.
• Since men fought the wars and ran the
enterprises of industrial production, they
considered themselves superior to woman.
 INDIAN WOMEN OF 21st
CENTUARY
• unfortunately, a woman in our country,
belongs to a class or group of society who
are in a disadvantaged position on
account of several social barriers and
impediments.
• victims of tyranny at the hands of men with
whom they, under the Constitution “enjoy,
equal status”.
 VICTIM- SHE IS !!!
• Receives no health care.
• No provision for education.
• Victim of child malnutrition than her male
counterparts.
• Victim of rape, domestic violence, sexual
harrasments, female feticides, trafficking,
dowry etc..
• On nearly every social indicator women in
India are worse off than men.
• Are sexually harassed on streets and
in the workplace.
• Molested in buses and trains and
raped at home and in public spaces.
• If they spurn the unwanted advances
of men they risk becoming victims of
acid attacks.
 RAPE

• Rape is a type of sexual assault, usually

involving sexual intercourse, initiated by one
or more persons against another person
without that person's consent.
• carried out by physical force,coercion, abuse
of authority or with a person who is incapable
of valid consent, such as one who is
unconscious, incapacitated, or below the legal
age of consent.
• The term is most often defined in criminal law.
• In 2012, the FBI defined rape as "The carnal
knowledge of a female forcibly and against
her will."
• Rape in India has been described as one of
India's most common crimes against women.
• A “national problem” by the UN’s human-
rights chief.
WOMEN- A FAIR GAME FOR THE
RAPIST
• But in a country where a rape is reported
every 21 minutes, even these most horrific of
crimes soon get forgotten - except by the
victims and their families.
• They are left to fight their long lonely battles
for justice which, more often than not, is
denied to them.
• There's a bias that operates in the mind of
decision makers - stereotyping women,
blaming the victim, trying to find out if she
invited the rape."
• Most of these victims are still waiting
for justice, sometimes years after the
crimes have been committed.
• The rapists sometimes escape with a
light sentence .
• Violence against women is deeply
entrenched in the feudal, patriarchal
Indian society, where for the rapist,
every woman is fair game.
 RAPE AND INDIA
• It is estimated that during the partition, up to
100,000 women were kidnapped and raped.
• A 2011 UN report found women worse off in
India than in countries like China, Iraq, and
even Saudi Arabia.
• A new case is reported every 20 minutes.
• New Delhi has the highest rate of rape-
reports among Indian cities
• Sources show that rape cases in India have
doubled between 1990 and 2008.
• The first such incident in India occurred in
1972 when Mathura, a 16-year-old tribal girl,
was raped by two policemen inside a police
station.
• According to the National Crime Records
Bureau, 24,206 rape cases were registered in
India in 2011,
• Although experts agree that the number of
unreported cases is much higher.
 THE MENACE OF RAPE

• Every 60 minutes, two women are raped in

this country.

• 133 elderly women were sexually assaulted

last year

• According to the National Crime Records

Bureau (NCRB), a total of 20,737 cases of
rape were reported last year.

• Madhya Pradesh the “rape capital” of the

country by topping the list of such incidents.
• Going by the NCRB statistics, two women are raped
in the country every hour.

• Madhya Pradesh accounted for 14.5 per cent of the

total cases (3,010)

• With West Bengal following with 2,106 such

incidents.

• Records of high incidence in other states include

Uttar Pradesh

• (1,648), Bihar (1,555) and Rajasthan (1,238). The

national capital had 598 cases in which 602 women
were sexually assaulted.
 RECENT DATAS
• Police figures show a rape reported on
average every 18 hours.
• Reported rape cases rose by nearly 17
percent between 2007 and 2011.
• Between 16 December and 4 January 501
calls for harassment and 64 calls for rape
were recorded by the Delhi Police, but only 4
were followed up by inquiries.
• There are rape cases in almost all cities and
rural areas, where the victim dies
immediately because of the brutality of the
crime."
 WHY ARE CASES HIDDEN?

• Acceptance of the argument made by the

accused like they were drunk, or that they
were living away from their family, or they
had a family to look after.
• Money and muscle power.
• cases do not even get to court because there
is a stigma attached to rape.
• Discouragement by families to complain
 ANTI-RAPE ACTS
• 1980s - women's rights groups lobbied for marital rape
to be declared unlawful.
• 1983- the criminal law (amendment) act stated that
"sexual intercourse by a man with his own wife, the
wife not being under fifteen years of age is not rape".
• Anti-rape law in 1983 - accommodate the provision that
if a victim says that she did not consent to sex, the
court will believe her.
• Marital rape is now illegal in India but is still
widespread.
• U/s 228A of Indian Penal Code, No person can disclose
the name of the rape victim.
• U/s 114-A of Indian Evidence Act.
 RECENT ACTS / AMENDMENTS
• The government has formed a committee
under retired Supreme Court Justice JS
Verma to take a fresh look at the anti-rape
law.
• Invited suggestion from the public and Many
are also calling for longer jail sentences of
up to 30 years or even life in jail.
• New fast-track courts
• The Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill-2013,
makes it clear that the age of consent for sex
would be 18 years.
 ? ON INDIA’S SAFETY
• The rape and murder of English
teenager Scarlett keeling, on 18
February 2008, brought international
attention to cases of rape in India.
• A Russian national working in India
claimed that she was raped by a Goan
politician on 1 December, 2009.
• In 2012 Bikram Singh Brahma, was
accused of raping a woman in the
Chirang district of Assam.
• The gang rape of a 23-year-old student
on a public bus,on 16 December 2012,
sparked large protests across the
capital Delhi.
• In 2003, the country was shamed when
a 28-year-old Swiss diplomat was
forced into her own car, by two men in
south Delhi's posh Siri Fort area and
raped by one of them. The rapist, whom
she described as being fluent in
English, spoke to her about Switzerland
and is believed to have even lectured
her on Indian culture.
 THE DELHI GANG RAPE
• The 2012 Delhi Gang Rape Case involves a
rape and murder that occurred on 16
December 2012 in Munirka, a neighbourhood
located in the southern part of New Delhi,
when a 23-year-old female physiotherapy
intern was beaten and gang raped in a bus in
which she was travelling with her male
companion. There were only five others in
the bus, including the driver, all of whom
raped the woman. The woman died from her
injuries thirteen days later while undergoing
emergency treatment in Singapore.
• All the accused were arrested and
charged with sexual assault and
murder. The accused driver, Ram
Singh, died in police custody on 11
March 2013 in the Tihar jail. According
to some published reports, the police
say Ram Singh hanged himself, but
defense lawyers and his family suspect
he was murdered. The rest of the
accused remain on trial in a fast-track
court.
 AFTER THE RAPE

• Protests at Raisina Hill, Rajpath, New Delhi.

• Police used water cannons and teargas to try and break
up the protestors.
• Public protests took place in New Delhi on 21 December
2012 at India gate and Raisana hill, the latter being the
location of both the Parliament of India and Rashtrpati
Bhavan
• Thousands of protesters clashed with police,
overturned cars, and battled Rapid action force units.
Demonstrators were lathi charged with water cannons
and tear gas shells, and arrested.
• The protests have also been explained as expressions
of middle-class angst arising out of a collapse of a
social contract between them and the liberal state.
 SUGGESTIONS
• Death penalty and chemical castration for
rapists.
• Many are also calling for longer jail
sentences of up to 30 years or even life in
jail.
• Severe and certain punishment in a time
bound manner .
• Arrest alone may not constitute a strong
societal response.
• Capital punishment for the criminals who
commit rape
• Make the police more sensitive
• Encourage the victims to complain.
• Moral education
• Amend the anomaly related to the age
of consent, and of wife in accordance
with the Marriage Act in India.
• Speedy trials in rape cases so that the
victim gets justice as it is rightly stated
that “Justice delayed is justice denied.”
• Laws alone may not be able to solve
the problem in a society which treats
its women as "second-class citizens"
and regards them inferior to men.
• Until social attitudes change and
women are respected and treated as
equals, the gains from the protests will
be shortlived.
 CONCLUSION
• Women also have the right to life and
liberty; they also have the right to be
respected and treated as equal citizens.
Their honour and dignity cannot be
touched or violated. They also have the
right to lead an honorable and peaceful
life.
• To ensure India’s safety ,it’s women
needs to be preserved……