INDIA: ON THE EDGE OF DECLINE

We all are continuously talking about the freedom of women and her developing status in the present society. But by analysing the daily cases covered by the media proved that the position of women in this era of globalization is still pathetic. Still women are brutally raped, harassed and murdered by the people. We have various examples which prove the pathetic condition of women. In 2012, Nirbhaya was brutally gang raped in a moving bus in Delhi. According to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) 2013 annual report, 24,923 rape cases were reported across India in 2012. In August 2013, a 22-year-old photojournalist, who was interning with an English-language magazine in Mumbai, was gang-raped by five persons, including a juvenile, when she had gone to the deserted Shakti Mills compound, near Mahalaxmi in South Mumbai, with a male colleague on an assignment. On 14 March 2015, a 71-year-old nun was allegedly gang-raped in Ranaghat, West Bengal by intruders at Convent of Jesus and Mary. NCRB said that 34,651 rapes were reported in 2015 across the country. On 29 March 2016, the corpse of Delta Meghwal, a 17 year old Dalit girl, was found in her hostel's water tank. Following the registration of the police case the hostel warden, physical education teacher and principal were arrested by Bikaner police and kept under judicial custody. The Tribune; India's largest newspaper said that according to the NCRB in 2017, a total of 38,947 cases of rape were registered in the country under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) as well as Section 376 and other related sections of the Indian Penal Code. In june, 2017, a 14-year-old was reported as having been raped by six minors and then thrown from a train. A 19-year-old mother with an eight-month-old baby was gang raped in Gurugram's Manesar in a shared auto. On May 9,2017; the decomposing body of a woman was found near the Industrial Model of Township in Rohtak. A young girl of eight years was sexually assaulted by her Uncle. Four women were gang-raped on the Jewar-Bulandshahr road, off the Yamuna Expressway. A seven-yearold, who was sleeping next to her mother, was picked up from her house in Amreha Budawan village in UP and raped. A 26-year-old woman from Sikkim was raped by three men in a moving car on the Delhi-Gurgaon border. A 45-year-old man was arrested in Mangaluru's Sasihitlu area of Suratkal on the charge of sexually abusing a minor daughter who later gave birth to a girl child, Police said. In April 2017, a physically challenged minor girl was raped inside the Lord Jagannath Temple, said the police. The incident happened after the girl went inside for “darshan” and the temple was more or less deserted. Only in 2018 there are various cases of rapes registered. An eight-year-old innocent girl was brutally raped for days in kathua, named Asifa. She was sedated, tortured before finally killing her inside a temple. 13-year-old boy allegedly raped a nine-year-old girl at his home in Mainpuri, Uttar Pradesh. A 25-year-old man raped and then killed a 10-year-old in Chhattisgarh during a wedding. In Nagaon district in Assam, an 11-year-old girl was raped and then burnt alive. A four-month-old baby was raped and murdered in the Rajwada area. A 17 years old girl was rapped by the boys on bike while returning from bank. There is wide discrepancy among reports of rape and sexual assault