Living in the urban establishments in the ancient land of India where female deities are worshiped on such a large scale, day-in day-out we come across news pertaining to sexual exploitation of women. The sexual crimes committed against women is definitely worrisome and the actual nature of these crimes absolutely disgusting. This growing concern and the number of these incidents that are happening, growing simultaneously with as we move inch-by-inch closer to modernization and this raises a very dangerous question - "Do these crimes come as a byproduct or an added drawback of modernization?". How valid is this question really? The answer as it seems is that it is not valid because the same nature of crimes are committed against women even in the rural areas, which still to this day covers a large part of the country. The point of difference between urban and rural areas is how few of these crimes are actually reported in the two areas and the difference is big! The victim seldom comes forward.
But to this day and age, can it be confidently said that all women are victims and can never be considered as perpetrators? This is even more doubtful. Now let's see the other side of the coin. Are all the crimes reported by women as victims, true? The answer to this is the data given by Police Department of New Delhi which says that more than 45-50% of cases are found to be fake and untrue where false claims of rape was filed by women in order to either extort money or just to teach their partners a 'lesson' which earlier was a consensual relationship. Take a look for yourselves: here
Hence it could be very well said that the law intended for the protection of women is being misused. There are several cases registered where even the men were completely innocent, and the women were clearly guilty even in the eyes of the law, still the women were given a leeway in their treatment which if it was a man, he would have been severely punished. How fair is that? And the more important question - has the soft corner for women in people's heart due to sexual crimes against women has unhinged our capability to differentiate between right from wrong? The evidence certainly points that way. And this is worrisome. Scales have to be balanced for a good society and it leaning in either direction will only lead to injustice within the society. It will suppress one gender and glorify the other. Equality goes both ways!
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