Debakanta Mohanty & Debashree Tripathy, BALLB, KIIT School of Law, KIIT University
ABSTRACT
The most common type of crime suffered by women across all spheres of society is rape. In India, the rate of rape has alarmingly increased recently. The seriousness of rape as a criminal and the growing importance of it as a significant public health issue are both recognised. The purpose of the current study was to determine the demographics of victims of rape and the effects of rape. Because they deal with so many issues in our culture, rape victims in India do not have it easy. The consequences or aftereffects of rape are also horrifying. The victim must experience an environment where it appears as though the same crime has been committed against her once more in order to receive justice. The path to justice for a rape survivor is similarly fraught with difficulties. Even filing a complaint might be difficult for a woman or her family, especially in impoverished or marginalised communities. The assistance programmes are likewise not very active. Therefore, a rape victim has a variety of societal, psychological, and bodily effects following the incident. The society needs to adopt new mental models. The victim or survivors of rape need assistance from society, and society needs to reassure them that it wasn't their fault and that we stand with them. Supporting rape victims is essentially a requirement in our culture. In this essay, we discuss Bilks Bano's situation as a victim of the Gujrat Godhra riots in 2002. In addition to her family being killed, she was gang assaulted by 12 people. According to the 1992 remission policy, however, individuals who had been found guilty and sentenced to 14 years in prison were freed.
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