The ugly, heinous and barbaric sceptre of "marital rape" has raised it's heinous head once again what with a 23 year old female resident of the national capital's Palam area accusing her lawfully wedded husband of repeatedly raping, brutalising and sodomising her against her will during their recently concluded "honeymoon" in Bangkok.........
According to the bruised, battered, scarred and traumatised victim, not only did her husband subject her to all the above mentioned brutality and ignominy but also forced her to perform "unnatural" sexual acts on him as the same turned him on and "pleasing" him and satisfying his carnal desires was her paramount and primary duty according to her "learned" husband.........
Readers may recall that the committee headed by the former chief justice of India Justice Verma had made a rather forceful and immensely convincing plea for the inclusion of "marital rape" within the purview of the new and improved "prevention of sexual crimes" act (now referred to as the Nirbhaya Act) that came into being in the aftermath of the infamous rape that was perpetrated in the national capital on a cold and desultory December evening little over a year ago.........
As is their wont, a group or then should one say "babble" of our esteemed oh so hypocritical and holier than thou Netas got together on this controversial and divisive issue and forced the hand of the powers that be into sidestepping or conveniently skirting this age old issue as they were of the "informed" opinion that the inclusion of marital rape within the purview of the law would cause irrepairable damage to both the sacrosanct institution of marriage as well as the social fabric of the country.........
Coming back to the present case and scenario, the Delhi police officials have displayed remarkable alacrity on their part and registered a FIR under relevant and applicable sections of the Indian Penal Code including section 376 (rape) and 377 (unnatural offences) against the victim's "absconding" and "elusive" husband.........
One may also do well to recall the incontrovertible fact that human rights watchdog had put out a report in the public domain well over a decade and a half ago that had forthrightly concluded that 81% of all married men in this country that supposedly venerates and worships it's womenfolk "rape" their wives every night with growing impunity as they are covered and protected by the convenient cloak of holy matrimony.......
According to the Delhi Council for Women chairperson Barkha Singh, the tortured victim met her a day after she had approached the Delhi police (Thursday) and narrated her tale of woe and horror to her, she also went on to add that she had witnessed the victim's physical condition and that the victim's body bore innumerable scars, bruises and marks as a telling testimony to her husband's brutality and unnatural carnal inclinations..........
One really wonders why we are so wary off confronting an ugly reality that stares us in our face every single day and initiating telling and lasting measures to eradicate this menace from our midst once and for all........
Is it because battering the supposedly weaker sex only serves to reinforce the long held belief that a woman is nothing better than a man's "jagir" and therefore has little or no choice apart from accepting her lot with stoicism and resignation........
The fact that the so called guardians and creators of the law are also part of the bandwagon that takes immense pride in raping women every night under the guise of holy matrimony only compounds the married Indian women's misery and leaves her charting a seemingly insurmountable course through stormy and uncharitable waters.........
Will all right thinking men come forward and take up cudgels on behalf of their eaquals and female counterparts or then will we continue to persist with our nocturnal tendency of continuing to live in the 21st century with 15th century mindsets, well that is the million dollar or then should I say rupee question........
According to the bruised, battered, scarred and traumatised victim, not only did her husband subject her to all the above mentioned brutality and ignominy but also forced her to perform "unnatural" sexual acts on him as the same turned him on and "pleasing" him and satisfying his carnal desires was her paramount and primary duty according to her "learned" husband.........
Readers may recall that the committee headed by the former chief justice of India Justice Verma had made a rather forceful and immensely convincing plea for the inclusion of "marital rape" within the purview of the new and improved "prevention of sexual crimes" act (now referred to as the Nirbhaya Act) that came into being in the aftermath of the infamous rape that was perpetrated in the national capital on a cold and desultory December evening little over a year ago.........
As is their wont, a group or then should one say "babble" of our esteemed oh so hypocritical and holier than thou Netas got together on this controversial and divisive issue and forced the hand of the powers that be into sidestepping or conveniently skirting this age old issue as they were of the "informed" opinion that the inclusion of marital rape within the purview of the law would cause irrepairable damage to both the sacrosanct institution of marriage as well as the social fabric of the country.........
Coming back to the present case and scenario, the Delhi police officials have displayed remarkable alacrity on their part and registered a FIR under relevant and applicable sections of the Indian Penal Code including section 376 (rape) and 377 (unnatural offences) against the victim's "absconding" and "elusive" husband.........
One may also do well to recall the incontrovertible fact that human rights watchdog had put out a report in the public domain well over a decade and a half ago that had forthrightly concluded that 81% of all married men in this country that supposedly venerates and worships it's womenfolk "rape" their wives every night with growing impunity as they are covered and protected by the convenient cloak of holy matrimony.......
According to the Delhi Council for Women chairperson Barkha Singh, the tortured victim met her a day after she had approached the Delhi police (Thursday) and narrated her tale of woe and horror to her, she also went on to add that she had witnessed the victim's physical condition and that the victim's body bore innumerable scars, bruises and marks as a telling testimony to her husband's brutality and unnatural carnal inclinations..........
One really wonders why we are so wary off confronting an ugly reality that stares us in our face every single day and initiating telling and lasting measures to eradicate this menace from our midst once and for all........
Is it because battering the supposedly weaker sex only serves to reinforce the long held belief that a woman is nothing better than a man's "jagir" and therefore has little or no choice apart from accepting her lot with stoicism and resignation........
The fact that the so called guardians and creators of the law are also part of the bandwagon that takes immense pride in raping women every night under the guise of holy matrimony only compounds the married Indian women's misery and leaves her charting a seemingly insurmountable course through stormy and uncharitable waters.........
Will all right thinking men come forward and take up cudgels on behalf of their eaquals and female counterparts or then will we continue to persist with our nocturnal tendency of continuing to live in the 21st century with 15th century mindsets, well that is the million dollar or then should I say rupee question........
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