Save the respect and dignity of women

21 July, 2012

I wonder why culprits and criminals are allowed to cover their faces and wear masks to hide their faces. By allowing them to hide their facial features, how can other innocent women be saved? When can't public be allowed to see their faces?

IT IS very shameful that a woman was attacked and beaten by gang of unsocial elements at a crowded street of the big city of Guwahati. It's again shameful that instead of saving the lady, the whole shameful drama was recorded on camera. In today's time of mobocracy not a single person has the moral/human values to raise voice against this phenomenon.

The man who perpetrated this wrongdoing is still at large although the police have arrested the other 11 persons involved in the act. People across India wanted to hang the culprit but he is still untouched by the police. The police cited bureaucratic reasons for the difficulty in chasing him down across state borders.

This incident is our chance to raise voice against the encouraging a wave of brutal attacks on women across India. If we raise our voices in massive numbers to Assam police chief today, we can get all the girl’s attackers traced down and put behind bars and get a commitment for proper patrolling of all city streets by responsible police. It is again subject of concern that India’s wealth and prosperity is increasing manifold but recent survey shows that it has the worst status of women amongst all the G-20 nations.

One can see violence and sexual harassment cases are crossing all the boundaries of shamelessness. I am wondering why culprits and criminals are allowed to cover their faces and wear masks to hide their faces. By allowing hiding their faces, how other innocent women could be saved? When public cannot see their faces how these will be identified by public in future.

Again we are marching on blind foot prints of western culture. The word like sexy, which is marked by tending to arouse sexual desire/ interest, is being used by masses. Recently Mamta Sharma, chairperson of Women Commission was seen advocating to accept these words in true sense. Even she gave a statement asking women to dress decently and carefully. Another member of Women Commission Alka Lamba released name of the victim. How can responsible women officials of the commission do such silly acts, one just fails to understand.