FAILURE TO CURB CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN
2022-01-19 05:56 -Successive Union Governments have taken several administrative and legal measures to empower, secure women and minimize crimes against them. But unfortunately, crimes against women have been increasing year on year except in 2020 when such crimes came down by 8.3 per cent due to lockdown and massive job losses, according to the National Crime RecordsBureau (NCRB). This indicates that government is not honest about protection of women and maintaining a façade of propaganda to hoodwink the people despite 39 laws having been enacted to empower women of India during the last two centuries. Reasons sited for ever increasing such crimes are patriarchy, misogyny, rampant discrimination against women, their commoditization, objectification and, above all, pervasive rampant corruption and politicization of police and policing as per experts.