Study On Rape Cases In India
Study On Rape Cases In India Addressing Increasing Number of Rapes in India On February 1, four convicts in the Nirbhaya rape-murder case , which occurred in December 2012 in India’s capital city of New Delhi, will be hanged as per the court’s order.* The sheer barbarity involved in the crime committed against the 23-year-old paramedic student, who later came to be identified as “ Nirbhaya” (meaning fearless) , jolted the collective conscience of India’s 1.3 billion people, uniting them in a call for the instant execution of the perpetrators. Thousands of women and activists stormed the streets to demand action in the name of the victim, breaking the usual silence over sexual violence, which often goes unreported. Taken aback by the backlash, and to appease a nation convulsed by anger, the Indian government implemented legal reforms mandating harsher punishments for rapists. The prison sentence term for rapists was doubled to 20 years, stalking was made a ...