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| Anti-Rape Bill |
Today the Union Cabinet of
India has finally approved the highly discussed Anti-Rape bill to provide more safety to the women by making the punishment
stricter for the serious crimes against them. On coming Monday the bill will be
discussed with the leaders of all the leading parties of India.
Yesterday only a group of Ministers of India cleared the bill, which
mainly proposes to lower the age of
consent to 16 from the existing 18. The proposed bill clearly states that
from now on the sustained stalking will be made a non bailable offence, which
has become a necessary to curb the increasing stalking incidents around the
women of India.
The bill also proposes a few more things like it will eventually make the
first offence of voyeurism a bailable offence. Not only that the bill also says
that no punishment for cases with false allegation against the women.
After the pathetic brutal Delhi
Gang-rape of an innocent medical student on a moving bus, the Indian
government has been working hard to amend some sort of strict laws to provide serious
punishment for a range of crimes against the women of India. The main aim of
the government is to provide the women more safety, as it has become the need
of the moment for sure.
In recent times the women of India especially of Delhi can’t feel safe
outside their house at night. The sudden rise of brutal incidents like rape,
acid-attacks, stalking has been terrifying the freedom of the women. The
government wants to change it by enacting some stricter punishment against these types of crimes.
After the Delhi Gang-rape incident, in which the brave innocent girl
died a horrifying death, the whole India condemned the incident by protesting
it. Meanwhile some celebrities had also joined the motion to strengthen the
issue. They mainly demanded two things first to give the capital punishment to the
entire criminal, and second to lower the age of consent to 16 from 18, as one
of the accused was a juvenile of only 16 years of old.
It has to be mentioned here that the government cleared a series of laws
through a special ordinance last month to send a clear message of its iron
determination to better the safety scenario
for women. That especial ordinance has to be approved by the Parliament
before March 22 (its recess). If government failed to do so the ordinance would
lapse on 4th April, 2013.
As a matter of fact the Indian Government has been criticized a lot for
the delays of taking decisions on some of the cases. It has been accused in a
wrong way in managing consensus among some of its veteran ministers. Eventually
the Union Cabinet was divided on to
two parts over the issue whether the bill would refer to the neutral-gender
term of ‘rape’ or ‘sexual assault’. Later it has come to conclusion and decided
to address the other issue on a separate bill.
In fact lowering the age of
consent has its own cons too, as some people are saying that it would
encourage the child abuse in a big way. Some are saying that if 16 can be a punishable
age, then why can’t it be a vote-able age?
Even the Krishna
Tirath, who is child and women's welfare minister, has opposed the enactment of
the bill, but the others welcomed it by clearly stating that this will be able
to prevent false cases of accusation of statutory rape, especially in the cases
where the teenagers in the modern days have consensual sex, which is nothing new in the present scenario.
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