Rapes are the most talked about crime against women, but strangely this is one crime where the offended is given more attention than the offender. And, the identity and circumstances of the offended is given prominence even during the court trials.
Tabulating the offenders
The offender is often dismissed either as a stranger in frustration or one who is provoked. This construct will be disturbed by the crime statistics of 2015 released recently by the National Crime Records Bureau. The statistics characterised the offenders in accordance with their relation to the offended.
These numbers add to the goriness of the offenders, it was observed that a total of 488 rapes were committed by the father, brother or grand father of the offended, 2679 cases were committed by close relatives and a whopping 9508 cases by neighbours alone. In total 95.5 percent of the reported rapes in the country were committed by perpetrators who are known to the offended.
"When a rapist is related to the offended, the incident rarely comes into light owing to the obligation of preserving the integrity of the family and emotional dependencies. Last year we had to deal a case where a girl was raped by her father-in-law and we were alerted by the girl's gynaecologist. The family tried hard to keep it under wraps to preserve the rapist's societal position" said, advocate Vishnu Chandra, who works with several NGOs in and around Bangalore. "When the offender is someone related to the offended the trauma is of several folds" he added.
This data is will surely send ripples across circles that equate sexual predators into strangers and also in this context, the role of time curfews, rape prevention kits and dress codes will have to cease their existence.
source: http://ncrb.gov.in/StatPublications/CII/CII2015/cii2015.asp
"When a rapist is related to the offended, the incident rarely comes into light owing to the obligation of preserving the integrity of the family and emotional dependencies. Last year we had to deal a case where a girl was raped by her father-in-law and we were alerted by the girl's gynaecologist. The family tried hard to keep it under wraps to preserve the rapist's societal position" said, advocate Vishnu Chandra, who works with several NGOs in and around Bangalore. "When the offender is someone related to the offended the trauma is of several folds" he added.
This data is will surely send ripples across circles that equate sexual predators into strangers and also in this context, the role of time curfews, rape prevention kits and dress codes will have to cease their existence.
source: http://ncrb.gov.in/StatPublications/CII/CII2015/cii2015.asp
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