Years after Nirbhaya, crimes against women continue to rise

NEW DELHI: The Hyderabad rape-murder case, the Unnao case and the Kathua rape case, have all brought back the focus to the fact that women in India are just not safe. The 26-year-old veterinary doctor was returning home when she was gang-raped and murdered. The Unnao woman was en route to a local court for a hearing of the case when she was set ablaze by five men, two of them accused of raping her in December last year. The woman has suffered "90% burn injuries" and is critical. It is hard to forget the rape and murder of the 8-year-old girl in Rasana village near Kathua in Jammu and Kashmir.
These are not lone cases. Since the Nirbhaya case, there have been many such heart-wrenching incidences. The 2017 NCRB report reveals that a total of 3.59 lakh cases of crime against women were registered, up from 3.38 lakh cases in 2016 and 3.29 lakh in 2015.

Rape cases make up nearly 10% of crimes committed against women. In 2017, as many as 32,559 cases of rape were registered. Madhya Pradesh recorded the highest number of rape cases (5,562), followed bRead More – Source