Whenever I board a bus or talk to a girl or a guy, they show their serious concern about the rapes in India. Well this is welcome but at the same time it hurts me when they, without checking the facts, declare that in UK or USA rapes are not that frequent as they are in India. I am not a "Big Boss" but at the same time I am quite aware that I am not surrounded by goons and perhaps I may prove to be a very helpful element in making themselves aware of the reality. I had expected myself to write about this but I was not ready, for only statistical knowledge is not the core. This came to my mind when I saw one BBC footage and many international videos making hue and cry over the Rapes in India, particularly many African nations, Britain and USA. There could be many but I saw frequently those.
This article is not a comparison but presentation of few hardcore facts which one needs to understand. The conclusion, this time, is up to you...
This article is not a comparison but presentation of few hardcore facts which one needs to understand. The conclusion, this time, is up to you...
The Myth
The convention is that girls are not safe in India and rapes in India are quite frequent as compared to developed nations. The former part I agree but the second part I not only reject it but I also think that it's an aspersion, a process of tarnishing the Indian image in international media while hiding itself cleverly because Indian mass is reactive while others remain inert despite a chaos nearby.
Delhi, is the crime capital of India and reports the highest number of rapes among all the cities. But fact conveys something else. In 2013, almost 40% of the registered cases were filed by parents of the girl in those cases where the alleged rapist was either the boy-friend of the girl with whom the girl had eloped and married or the consensual sex had resulted into pregnancy. In these cases conviction rates are very low. Only those cases are considered where the girl is a minor. In another 25% of the cases, the rapes are filed because there is a "breach of promise". The boy denies to marry the girl after consensual sex leading to the filing of FIR. In these too, the conviction rates are very low because in many cases the girl doesn't know that the man has a wife or even if he is unmarried, it happens with the consensus of the two. In the rest of the cases, irrespective of level/power/money of the person involved, the conviction rate was too high. It could be understood from the fact that overall conviction rate stands at nearly 26%, it means out of the remaining 35%, 26% are convicted (more than 80% of the 35%)
The case is similar over entire India. The highest conviction rate was observed in Manipur in 2011 where there was 100% conviction. In North, UP had the highest conviction rate of 56.4% followed by Delhi at 41.5%. For more details please refer
The overall conviction rate stood at 26.4%. Now this was about the Indian Scenario and I must say, it's too bad. But what about the developed world which are praised and hailed particularly by the youths because they think that they are far better than their country, and their country is developing and is not hi-fi.
Fatcs reveal something else. As per reported rape, in India per 1 lakh people there are 1.8 rapes where as in USA - 27.3 ; UK - 28.8 ; Sweden - 63.5 ; South Africa - 120. Remember. this 1.8 takes into account the false rape cases too. Also, one has to take into account that the number of reported cases will be less in India as compared to the developed nations. But, even if we magnify the data by 10 times, still it will be less. More than that, the conviction rate in few of these countries is quite disparaging. UK stands with a very feeble conviction rate of as low as 5.7-6.6 %.
As I said the conclusion is up to you.
Why India is Unsafe
Perhaps this is because the crime against women in India are quite high as compared to other nations such as eve-teasing, passing derogatory comments, DOWRY, marital rapes etc. These things are the major causes which makes India unsafe for the Girls and not Rapes!! Perhaps in 98% of the rape cases girls know the convict very well !!!
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