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One Lakh Seventy One Thousand Rape Cases Reported In Five Years: Govt

We must not forget the people, humans behind the numbers. When the government of India said that 1.71 lakh rape cases were reported in India between 2015 and 2019, they are saying that 1.75 people were reportedly raped in India during these five years.

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Rape Cases In India: The government of India informed the Parliament on Wednesday that a total of one lakh seventy-one thousand cases of rape were reported in the country between the years 2015 and 2019.
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For people who flip through the newspaper on a regular basis, this large number is hardly surprising. If not every hour, headlines about women being raped surface every day. The state of women in the country is not hidden from anyone.

By just counting the number of rape cases reported just in the month of August in 2021, one can say that India is not a safe country for women. It is a country where politicians shrug off the responsibility of women's safety by saying that they cannot deploy a policeman for every girl. It is a country where a Chief Minister blames minor girls for their rape by saying that they shouldn't have stepped out at night. It is a country where men of the so-called "upper caste" feel that they can abuse women who do not enjoy the societal privileges as them.

The reported gang rape of a 9-year-old Dalit girl in Delhi is a reminder of that misused caste privilege. It is also a reminder of how rapists in this country at the liberty to attack anyone from little girls to old age women.

While looking at the data, we must not forget the people, humans behind the numbers. When the government of India said that 1.71 lakh rape cases were reported in India between 2015 and 2019, they are saying that 1.75 people were reportedly raped in India during these five years. Each and every case in this long list is a story of a living breathing person's sexual assault.

Since this data puts every rape case under one umbrella, we must also know about how each case of a different person. Divided by caste and privilege. As per the data given by the National Crime Records Bureau ( NCRB) the cases of rape among women of Scheduled Cast and Scheduled Tribes increased by 22.14 per cent in 2019 as compared to 2017.

The Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Kumar stated in Rajya Sabha that out of the total number reported cases, 22,753 were registered in Madhya Pradesh between 2015-2019. Rajasthan came after Madhya Pradesh with 20,937 reported cases. Then followed Uttar Pradesh with 19,098 and 14,707 cases in Maharashtra.

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In the country's capital itself, the reported cases of rape between 2015 and 2019 were at a total of 8,051.

We can talk about all the landmark amendments in the rape law of India but if the men in this country feel that they can abuse women any way they like, the real change will stay far away.

Also read: Delhi Minor Murder Case: When Cremations Make Bigger Headlines Than Rape

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