On December 16th 2012, a heinous crime was committed by a group of six people, When a 23 year old female physiotherapy intern was beaten and gang raped in a privately operated licensed bus (used to supplement public transport in Delhi). She was travelling with a male companion after watching a movie “The Life of Pi” at the South New Delhi shopping mall. The young woman’s friend got suspicious as the bus was taking the different route and he raised objection but the accused shut the door of the bus. The driver and five other men on the bus were drunk and started taunting the two victims on how they were out together at night. This led to the scuffle between man and the accused, they beat the male friend with the iron rod and was left unconscious and dragged the woman at the back of the bus and raped her, she fought back. The attackers assaulted the woman and her male companion robbed them of their belongings. The victims were later dumped naked on the roadside, the woman died two weeks later of injuries in a Singapore hospital.
This incident triggered outrage and send shock waves across India, there were huge public protests in New Delhi following the incident on 21st December 2013. The demonstrators clashed with the police authorities, certain measure were taken to control the crowd by the use of water cannon and tear gas. Subsequently there were public protests across the major cities against the government for failing to provide adequate security for women. This incident generated widespread national and international coverage and media played a major role, the act was widely condemned. Social media such as Facebook and Whatsapps were also used to protest this brutal incident.
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...nt and not death penalty, it also did not favor lowering the age of a juvenile from 18 to 16 years. The Criminal Law Amendment 2013 was introduced by the parliament for the amendment of the Indian Penal Code and Code of Criminal Procedure, on laws related to sexual offense. The government passed tougher anti-rape laws, introducing the death penalty for repeat offenders, and imprisonment for acid attacks, human trafficking and stalking.
The victim’s family established the Nirbhaya Trust, an institute formed to assist women who have experienced violence find shelter and legal assistance. Due to the fact that Indian laws do not allow the publishing of a rape victims name, it was named Nirbhaya which means fearless in Hindi, after the name used by the media. The victim's father stated, “So many people supported us, so...we want [to] help those girls who have no one.”
People have, not too long ago, realized that youth and adults are very diverse and should not be treated the same. They gave no time for children to develop the “meins reis”, therefore, they were not given the opportunity to learn. People were not aware that the brain of the youth were not fully developed and were not given the chance of change. They thought that once guilty you shall remain guilty. For that reason they were considered adults, when in reality, adult criminals will only continue to infatuate their mind with evil. The new Youth Criminal Justice Act focuses on change and reintegration with society. We have learned that the youth have not fully developed and do not have the full ability to comprehend such judgements.
The Youth Criminal Justice Act, often called by the name of YCJA, is specifically made for youths ages varying from 12 to 17 that disobey the law. In April 1, 2003, the YCJA replaced the previous justice act called Young Offenders Act due to several negative concerns. “These concerns included the overuse of the courts and incarceration in less serious cases, disparity and unfairness in sentencing, a lack of effective reintegration of young people released from custody, and the need to better take into account the interests of victims.” The main purpose of the YCJA aims to have a fairer and more equitable system. Although the YCJA is an effective law within the justice system, a main aspect/characteristic that needs to remain, is keeping the
The novel Life of Pi, by Yann Martel, and the short story “Miss Brill”, by Katherine Mansfield, appear to contain the same internal ideas. The strongest similarity between the stories are the characters. But that is also the strongest difference. PI and Miss Brill suffer from loneliness, misunderstood simple mindedness, and having to deal with others putting them down.
Under the Juvenile Delinquents Act, the first act imposed in regards to young offenders,
Thesis: Pi’s journey is characterized better in the movie because it gets rid of excess information to get the story line along, has major effects to visually represent the story, and finishes with a definite conclusion.
Although modern culture has globally shown awareness towards feminism, countries like China and India still face daily issues with women being treated unequally to men. Banwari Devi tells her story of being raped in the cornfields in India because she was alone. She joined the Gulabi Gang, a group of village women from northern India founded in 2006 aiming to combat violence against women. She aims to protect the women of her village devoting herself to making sure “women after [her] can walk through fields with long, fearless strides” (147). For husbands will leave women who have been raped because it is shameful; however,
In Life of Pi, Yann Martel's novel About a young boy who gets all odds stacked against him, The Main character Piscine Molitor Patel or “Pi” knows that as people get lower in their life they begin to exceed their past achievements allowing them to conquer obstacles. In later pages in the Life of Pi he states that “The Lower You are, The Higher your mind will want to soar”. Once you have achieved everything you want in life the only place to go is down, but when people have nothing to lose People Tend to perform at their best. Pi was faced with this same problem while 7 months at sea. He had lost everything, his family, his home, his faith in God, and he was positive that death was coming for him. Pi could have given up, but he found a way to bounce back and defeat the odds.
There can be several objects in ones lifespan that has set the tone of them. In the book Life of Pi, there were three main objects that have set the tone and them for the young boy Pi. These objects where the color orange, the cross of Christianity, and the Tsimtsum boat that had crashed in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
Imagine taking a trip to a faraway land to start a new life and getting lost at sea. Picture being in a small boat with a Bengal tiger for more than 200 days with a limited amount of food and water. Life of Pi by Yann Martel tells the story of a boy who was traveling to Canada with his family when their ship sunk. The boy, Piscine Patel, was thrown onto a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. Piscine, or Pi, had to survive 227 days at sea on a small lifeboat with a tiger. He had to watch his food and water intake so that he would never run out and he had to avoid the Richard Parker. Life of Pi by Yann Martel is an extraordinary piece of literature that exhibits the difference of personalities between characters and broadens the
...ections 376 (rape) and 302 (murder) under the Indian Penal Code and was awarded death sentence. The Court had passed this verdict based on numerous hard-hitting evidences. The Court also blamed the inaction and partiality of the Delhi Police in coming to the aid of Mattoo when she had filed a complaint against Singh as his father; J.P. Singh was the then senior IPS officer Director General of Delhi Police. However, on 6th October 2010, the death sentence was reduced to life sentence after Santosh Singh filed a plea in the Supreme Court. In spite, of this, the turn of events in this case shows that although justice was delayed for Priyadarshini Mattoo, justice was not denied. This only proves the efficiency, power and social responsibility of media in a democracy. This is why the case is considered as a landmark reversal of judgments in the history Indian judiciary.
The audience of this paper is those who want to be informed and those that this horrible problem has happened to. Rape is not something men and women wish to talk about but it is a relevant issue in our world. It should not be something people have to worry about in their own homes. The purpose is to inform people that the rapists can be caught and brought to trial for what they have done. The logos of the article are those who have been raped will be able to get their victimizer put away for a long time therefore the kits should be processed. The ethos that is presented in this article is if you are going to do the crime you should have to do the time as well if you are going to start reassess a case you should make sure the kit is finished.
“When some Hong Kong police officers rang the bell of an apartment in Kowloon, the door burst open and gangsters opened fire with AK-47s and other automatic weapons…” causing one to remark, “‘a shoot-up of that kind can happen in any big city,’” (Murphy 1). Humans have committed crimes since the beginning of civilization,and as cities have grown, so has the crime. Problematically though, cities in poor developing nations, will have a population and a crime rate that is going to grow exponentially. According to India’s National Crime Records Bureau, “registered rape cases in India had increased by almost 900 per cent over the past 40 years… while murder cases had gone up by...250 percent over 60 years” (Burke). Even though their population and crime has snowballed, little has been done to improve developing cities educational systems or protection services. At the current rate cities are projected to urbanize, rapidly developing countries’ only solution is to implement stronger protection services and improve public education systems in order to effectively slow crime and create safer cities.
Even after the changes in the laws and more stringent laws, Delhi continues to be the most unsafe city and also the reports show that the number of rapes went from 585 in 2012 to 1,441 in 2013. Delhi is said to be followed by Mumbai, Jaipur and Pune as most unsafe cities. If states are counted then in, 2013, Madhya Pradesh was revealed as the most rape cases recorded state among all other states with about 4,335 reported rape cases. It was followed by Rajasthan (3285), Maharashtra (3063) and Uttar Pradesh (3050). These stats also very well explain that the only changes in law cannot be of much help till the time society plans on changing their attitude towards
Violence against women is a worldwide phenomenon which spans all social classes and age groups. Violence in both its subtle and blatant from is so deeply embedded in cultures around the world that it is almost rendered invisible. To quote Charlotte Bunch – “Opening the door on the subject of violence against the world’s females is like standing at the threshold of an immense dark chamber vibrating with collective anguish, but with the sounds with protest throttled back to a murmur. Where there should be outrage aimed at an intolerable status quo there is instead denial, and the largely passive acceptance of the way things are”. (Bunch) In this limelight, this study intends to focus on the consumption of violence and the associated fear, deliberately and subtly illustrated by the elements of silence and darkness in Manjula Padmanabhan’s play Lights Out. Violence in India is multifaceted: not merely physical, it is more often mental and emotional, subtle and indirect, most often insidious and difficult to recognize. Lights Out is based on a true incident, an eye-witness account. The incident took place in Santa Cruz, Bombay, 1982, wherein just like the play, a group of urban middle-class people chose to stand and watch ...
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