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In this case, from the senior officer who physically and verbally abused the
father to the constable who tortured the victim to the doctor who did not
file the medical report, all should be charged under Sec 166A and arrested.
This has not happened.
It is because of the courage of the family and the support of the local unit of
AIDWA and the Tamil Nadu Differently Abled Organization that the case
could reach the Madras High Court which has issued a show cause notice to
the police.
Girls from poor families who face violent sexual assault like this girl did are
the anonymous victims for whom few tears are shed. Living in remote
areas, a disabled girl from an economically poor family has little hope for
justice.
The number of rape cases was close to 25,000 registered cases in 2013, of
which 12.5 per cent were rapes of minors. Shockingly, the processes of
justice even for minors is so slow that there were as many as 33,328 cases
of rape of minors pending in the courts according to the National Crimes
Research Bureau report of 2013. Of the cases where trial was completed, a
high 70 per cent of the accused walked free.
If the conviction rate is so abysmal, some of the reasons lie in corrupt
politics, in compromised police personnel and in the power of the kind of
nexus that victimized the girl in that remote village in Krishnagiri district.
Yet India has a better legal framework compared to many other countries.
But the political will and commitment to implement laws is absent.
It is only public pressure which will force change which will make the
difference. It can be done. In this case too. Extend your support. Become
the voice that shouts out for justice.
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