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Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration carried out against a person without that person's consent. The act may be carried out by physical force, coercion, abuse of authority, or against a person who is incapable of giving valid consent, such as one who is unconscious, incapacitated, has an intellectual disability, or is below the legal age of consent. It is means of intimidation and control which function to perpetuate the subordinate status of women, and now, children in patriarch societies.
In particular, an 11-year-old girl’s dead body was found in a waste bin with 80 wounds in Gujarat. Rape is an anti-social, cruel, heinous activity where protesters are mostly women by candle-light marches, slogan-raising in market squares. The participation of men are rarely seen, and this attitude is very unfortunate, irresponsible, highly atrocious committed against innocent girls.
As per the Prime Minister of India, Rape is Rape; do not politicise it (said on Thursday 19th April 2018 during his London trip). Rape is the most heinous crime committed against women in India. According to the National Crime Report Bureau’s 2013 annual report, 24,923 rape cases were reported across India in 2012. Out of which 24,470 were committed by someone known to the victim. A total of 34,651 cases of rape were reported in India in 2015. Out of these, in 33,098 cases the offenders were known to the victims, revealed the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data. When rape is classified under Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code, why the Government is not taking strict actions against the perpetrators?
D. Raveendranathan
Mr. D. RAVEENDRANATHAN, IFS (Retd)., is a post-graduate in Sociology, who was selected for the training in the Southern Forest Rangers’ College at Coimbatore in 1970. On completion of 2 years of training in 1972, he was posted as Forest Range Officer in Tamil Nadu. Throughout his career, he has served diligently and worked in various forests and sanctuaries in different designations. These include services at the Arasu Rubber Corporation, Grizzled Giant Squirrel Sanctuary, Kalakkadu Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, Ambasamudram in the Western Ghats, Kanyakumari to Coimbatore Districts and Tamil Nadu Forest Plantation Corporation at Villupuram. He was permitted to retire from service on superannuation in the year 2007. On the whole, he has served in 15 Districts in Tamil Nadu.
On his retirement, he started writing books about thrilling experiences in protecting the forests, wildlife and environment. He has published the following books internationally through Notion Press. This is the seventh book to his credit. His book, Developments lead to Pollution and Depletion of Natural Resources was approved as a syllabus reference book for M.Sc. Environmental Science by the Periyar University, Salem, Tamil Nadu since 2018. His book, Incontrovertible Impacts of Global Warming was congratulated by the Executive Secretary of United Nations Climate Change Secretariat, Geneva, Germany.
1. Green Inspirational Experiences in Forest Services
2. The Western Ghats and the Bounteous Services Showered by the Planet
3. Himalayas Melting and Peninsular India Wilting
4. Development Leads to Pollution and Depletion of Natural Resources
5. Man-Made Catastrophic and Humongous Disasters
6. Incontrovertible Impact of Global Warming
7. Rape and Politics.
