Dear Ms. Krishna Tirath,
Honourable Minister for Women and Child Development;
Madam, the plight of the Indian woman is indeed pitiable to say the very least and needs to be revisited or looked at in an extremely humane and compassionate manner, more importantly, there are urgent issues pertaining to the safety, security and very existence of women that need to be addressed forthwith, but you instead seem to be focussing your energies on demanding the death penalty for Nirbhaya's rapists and murderers.........
Your ministry's role becomes all the more crucial in the present scenario what with the steadily increasing clamour for far more stringent and women friendly laws and you should be concentrating your energies on enabling your ministry to act as the nodal agency in this regard and forwarding your recommendations and suggestions to the law ministry and constantly reminding the law ministry about it's role in this issue instead of pandering to the gallery and the more militant and blood thirsty sections of our society...........
A golden opportunity has been accorded to you on a platinum platter and you need to grab the same with both hands; end the confusion and uncertainty pertaining to the grey areas within the existing laws that have been exploited by rapists and their ilk ever since one can remember and facilitated their getting away scot free almost all of the time........
Seek the help of legal luminaires and the best legal minds and come up with precise definitions of eve teasing, molestation, attempt to rape, marital rape, sexual harassment within the workplace, and last but not the least what happens in a scenario where both the partners willingly initiate the sexual act, but the female participant expresses her unwillingness half way through the same, does her expressing her unwillingness constitute a transgression of the existing laws in this regard and come under the umbrella of rape..........
Summon a meeting of avowed defenders of women's/human rights like Brinda Karat, Sushma Swaraj, Kiran Bedi, Brinda Grover, Malvika Rajkotia, and other such notables have a series of pow wow's with them and come up with a draft bill to supplement the already existing draft of the Crimes Gainst Women Bill that was drafted by a legion of women's organisations but is yet to see the light of the day pending the requisite parliamentary approval..........
Shrimatiji, the existing Juvenile Justice Act needs to be looked at afresh in the view of changed circumstances and social paradigms; thirteen, fourteen and fifteen year olds have shown a remarkable penchant for raping people belonging to the opposite sex with increasing impunity and a scant regard for the law while we continue to persist with an archaic and outdated law that has failed to keep up with the changing needs of an emerging and constantly evolving modern society........
Look at the exiting laws afresh and initiate the process to reducing the age of majority to sixteen from the existing eighteen, grant the presiding judge the discretion to take a decision on whether or not the accused should be treated and tried as an adult in view of the mitigating circumstances and gruesomeness and heinousness of his act/crime.........
Immediately initiate action on all the above mentioned measures and a lot more besides if you really want the country as a whole to develop the impression that you are indeed serious about discharging your ministerial responsibilities and more importantly coerce your rather reluctant party leaders into summoning an extra ordinary session of parliament that will be exclusively devoted to extensive debates on the plight of women in this ancient land and enacting or then strengthening or suitably amending already existing laws in order to guarantee the safety and security of the Indian woman........
Sterling deeds and not mere words will make you go down in history as a minister who was more than willing to put her money where her mouth was, the ball lies in your court and you and only you can make the much desired decision about your rightful place in the history of the evolution of the fairer sex in independent India........
Honourable Minister for Women and Child Development;
Madam, the plight of the Indian woman is indeed pitiable to say the very least and needs to be revisited or looked at in an extremely humane and compassionate manner, more importantly, there are urgent issues pertaining to the safety, security and very existence of women that need to be addressed forthwith, but you instead seem to be focussing your energies on demanding the death penalty for Nirbhaya's rapists and murderers.........
Your ministry's role becomes all the more crucial in the present scenario what with the steadily increasing clamour for far more stringent and women friendly laws and you should be concentrating your energies on enabling your ministry to act as the nodal agency in this regard and forwarding your recommendations and suggestions to the law ministry and constantly reminding the law ministry about it's role in this issue instead of pandering to the gallery and the more militant and blood thirsty sections of our society...........
A golden opportunity has been accorded to you on a platinum platter and you need to grab the same with both hands; end the confusion and uncertainty pertaining to the grey areas within the existing laws that have been exploited by rapists and their ilk ever since one can remember and facilitated their getting away scot free almost all of the time........
Seek the help of legal luminaires and the best legal minds and come up with precise definitions of eve teasing, molestation, attempt to rape, marital rape, sexual harassment within the workplace, and last but not the least what happens in a scenario where both the partners willingly initiate the sexual act, but the female participant expresses her unwillingness half way through the same, does her expressing her unwillingness constitute a transgression of the existing laws in this regard and come under the umbrella of rape..........
Summon a meeting of avowed defenders of women's/human rights like Brinda Karat, Sushma Swaraj, Kiran Bedi, Brinda Grover, Malvika Rajkotia, and other such notables have a series of pow wow's with them and come up with a draft bill to supplement the already existing draft of the Crimes Gainst Women Bill that was drafted by a legion of women's organisations but is yet to see the light of the day pending the requisite parliamentary approval..........
Shrimatiji, the existing Juvenile Justice Act needs to be looked at afresh in the view of changed circumstances and social paradigms; thirteen, fourteen and fifteen year olds have shown a remarkable penchant for raping people belonging to the opposite sex with increasing impunity and a scant regard for the law while we continue to persist with an archaic and outdated law that has failed to keep up with the changing needs of an emerging and constantly evolving modern society........
Look at the exiting laws afresh and initiate the process to reducing the age of majority to sixteen from the existing eighteen, grant the presiding judge the discretion to take a decision on whether or not the accused should be treated and tried as an adult in view of the mitigating circumstances and gruesomeness and heinousness of his act/crime.........
Immediately initiate action on all the above mentioned measures and a lot more besides if you really want the country as a whole to develop the impression that you are indeed serious about discharging your ministerial responsibilities and more importantly coerce your rather reluctant party leaders into summoning an extra ordinary session of parliament that will be exclusively devoted to extensive debates on the plight of women in this ancient land and enacting or then strengthening or suitably amending already existing laws in order to guarantee the safety and security of the Indian woman........
Sterling deeds and not mere words will make you go down in history as a minister who was more than willing to put her money where her mouth was, the ball lies in your court and you and only you can make the much desired decision about your rightful place in the history of the evolution of the fairer sex in independent India........
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