She was on the verge of realising her ambition of landing a job and living independently when, on Friday, he chased her and fatally beat her with an iron rod because she had refused to marry him.
Source: Afternoon Voice
The law and order system has been ineffective in making those who are violent afraid of punishment, allowing a culture of impunity to flourish. For the victims, proving their claims against the offenders is an expensive, drawn-out, and difficult fight; many of these instances result in injustice.
Despite the widespread anger over the Nirbhaya case in 2012 and the subsequent tightening of the criminal laws related to terrible crimes against women, many further daughters have been brutalised since then. One particularly horrific incident involves an 11-year-old girl who was gangraped and discovered last week in a jungle in Madhya Pradesh drenched in blood with bite marks all over her body.
Source: India Today
The solution to this institutional inertia requires a two-pronged approach: first, the law must catch up with the offenders, no matter how powerful they may be, and also swiftly deliver justice to the victims; and second, boys should be taught respect for women from an early age at home, in educational institutions, and at the workplace.
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