Women Safety - Driving Govt Action
1. Refusal to file FIR by Police
2. No response to calls to emergency number 100 while crime is being committed.
3. Criminals know that the case will take more than 15 to 20 years to be decided.
4. There will not be eye witnesses in 99% of Rape/Gang Rape cases.
5. Rapists are allowed to roam free by courts to commit the same crime again.
6. Police take very long time to file charge sheet and file charge sheets running up to 10000 pages in some cases.
7. No Judge will have time or patience to read such long charge sheets.
8. Recording of evidence is delayed by various strategies adopted by Lawyers and frequent adjournments are requested and granted on flimsy grounds.
9. Judges tend to deliver very long orders to show reasonableness of the order.
10. Criminals know that Human Rights Activists will not allow death sentence.
SOLUTIONS:
1. Create fear of Law by making punishment for rape "Death by Hanging" for all rapists irrespective of AGE.
2. There should be no provision for Appeal beyond High Court in Rape cases.
3. There should be time limit of 2 weeks for case to be decided by lower court based on Forensic evidence.
4. The Appeal in High Court should be decided in 2 weeks.
5. There should be no provision for mercy appeal.
6. After confirmation of death sentence by High Court the criminal should be Hanged within One Week and wide publicity should be given to create fear in the minds of prospective criminals.
Note: The above solution is not applicable to rape cases filed by women who enter in to consensual physical relationship with a man on account of promise of marriage and later on his refusal to marry file a rape case. more