The Bill against rape and other sexual offences
against women, meant to be of substance thus protecting the rights and dignity
of women, has been diluted. http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/antirape-bill-diluted/article4523994.ece.
Reason being, the strong opposition from communal parties like the BJP and the
Samajwadi Party and unsolicited arguments put forward by the Rashtriya Janata
Dal and Janata Dal-United. The all-party meeting held to make necessary changes
in the Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 2013 could not come to a common decision
regarding the amendments. Result is a weakened bill being added to the copious
laws already existing but least implemented in our country. While the demands
made by the Opposition have always been inimical to the interests of the land,
and the country is yet to recuperate from the chain of sexual crimes being
caused against our women, the Government is faced with no other alternate
method other than to renege and go back on its promise on providing its people
a safe society. The ideologies on the basis of which our political parties
argue, quarrel, and put forward their weird opinions represent the most perfect
and typical example of a democracy crushed and mutilated to its core. While the
lore of respecting the women and giving them an equal place along with others
has been passed to us through ages, there are plenty of societies existing who
would do anything to make a mockery of everything and anything that contributes
to the making of an egalitarian society. The aggression in the minds of our men
against the emancipation and freedom of women is a result of virulent stance
and historically unequal power relations between men and women. Nevertheless,
the passing of the diluted Bill would be a caricature of the nation’s
anticipated Bill, thereby, giving a second chance to crime against women.
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