On Thursday India's Parliament
passed a bill to take on stronger penalties on men who attack women and also to
criminalize offenses like stalking and voyeurism. They are waiting on President
Pranab Muhkerjee to sign the bill into law shortly. Less than three months ago
a New Delhi physiotherapy student was gang-raped on a moving bus and later she
died from her injuries. The incident called in for a change and drew outrage
and protests over the issue of women's safety. In recent years reported rapes
in India have risen and northern India has witnessed a series of highly
publicized gang rapes. Many Indians protested that the government should do
more to protect women and make sure harsher sentences were put on the men. The
law increases the punishment for sex crimes including gang rap, gives repeated offenders
subject to the death penalty, and defines as crimes actions. The new law also
forces stricter punishment for police officers that fail to properly register
the complaints of sexual assault.
My opinion of the new law is that I
think it is a good idea that they’re now finally trying to make it better in
India. From all of the news articles that I have seen or read, I’ve noticed
that before it seemed like that didn’t really try to do anything to protect the
women for sexual assault. We’ve also seen a lot of sexual assault in the book
Q&A (the book we are reading in our Language Arts class) and the book
mostly just shows how badly some places in India can be. I still wonder even
though they are going in the right steps but are the citizens and police
actually going to carry out the law and make sure it actually gets followed through?
I also believe even though it may not give full protection that it will make it
a lot safer for women in India.
(WC 319)
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/22/world/asia/india-bill-toughens-penalties-for-attacks-on-women.html?_r=0
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