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Increasing Rate of Crime against Women
in India
Divya Shukla
774-A , Near Hanuman Mandir Bichhiya Colony, Gorakhpur, Pin 273014
Research Scholar- Faculty of Law, University of Allahabad
Yatra Naryastu pujyante Ramante Tatra Devatal I
Yatraitaastu Na Pujyante Sarvaastatrafabaah kriyaah II1
Meaning- Where women are honoured, divinity blossoms there; and where they are dishonoured, all
action remains unfruitful.
We are born in India which believes in Manuscript and believes Ravana was destroyed because
he abducted Sita – wife of Rama.
And kauravas destroyed because they insulted Draupadi – wife of Pandavas. It is wise and
apposite to say that women have ever been given reverence and importance in Indian society. It
has been observed time and again that a society that has detested and enslaved women or
subjected her to humiliation has declined fast. Man and women both have contributed in the
development of the society. The society cannot stand even for a single day but for the women the
great poet and dramatist has gone to the extent of laying encomium on her through various
epithets like ghrihidi, sakhi, sachive or priya shishya as per Varahmihir, dharma and aarth is
based on women. It is they who provide passionate satiation and the bless of progeny. They are
the lakshmi.2
But nowadays, it is so unfortunate, dishearten and rather shameful that a country where women
were respected so much in ancient times has stooped to such level that women think twice before
going out at night.
1 Manuscript 3:56
2
Dr. Farhat khan : women and criminal law, 1st edition,2016 P.N. 1
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Crime against women:-
“Crime against women” , this caption
gives a semantic meaning embracing direct
or indirect physical or mental cruelty to
women of these eve-teasing, molestation,
bigamy, fraudulent marriage, adultery,
enticement, harassment at working places,
beating, dowry death and still others are
the multifarious ways of violence against
women. Almost every woman has
experienced the feeling of being
mistreated, trivialized, kept out, put down,
ignored, assaulted, laughed at or
discriminated against because of her
gender.3
Crimes against women in recent days are
growing day by day. Today the general
perception among the people is that the
crime against women has increased to such
a great extent that women are not able to
move freely and participate in the
community, there is no safe territory left
for women not even in their locality. Not
only are single women harassed but other
women are being assaulted and raped
before the eyes of their family members.4
According to the report of NCRB there has
been considerable rise in violence and
crime against women where as there has
been fall in other crimes by 41%. In
modern world we talk of a civilized
society, women liberty and empowerment,
3
Rebecca walker, “Becoming the third wave, from
Ms. Magazine in Leslie L. Heywood (ed), The
women’s movement Today – An Encyclopedia of
third wave Feminism 6 ( Green wood Press U.S.A.
2006)
4
Nehal Ashraf : crime against women, edition,
1997. P. 2
every day the pace of crime against
women is rapidly increasing.
Crime against women has ever been in
Indian society since times immemorial. It
is not a novel thing. Women have been
experiencing the trauma of humiliation,
torture and exploitation since recorded
history of family and society. The day to
day events of violence, rape, battering etc
find place in the dailies and journals. There
is no women a who has not suffered at one
time or another harassment, humiliation,
exploitation and violence that shadows her
sex.5
5
Ibid P. 4
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Table 1
Crime Head Crime incidence Crime rate Percentage Variation
2014 2015 2016 2014 2015 2016 2014-2015 2015-2016
Total crime 3,39,457 3,29,243 3,38,,954 56.6 54.2 55.2 -3.0% 2. 9 %
Against
Women
Source: National Crime Report Bureau
In India women do not seem to enjoy all the rights to freedom provided under the constitution of
India. According to the NRCB India, a crime against women is recorded every 1.6 minutes in
India. Every 4.8 minutes a girl is subjected to domestic violence in this contrary and every 13.5
minutes a rape case is recorded.6
Table 2
S.
No.
1
Crime Head
Cruelty by husband or her
Relatives
Total case
Reported
1,10,378
Major State / Union Territories during
2016
West Bengal Rajasthan U.P
19,302 13,811 11,156
2 Assault on women with
intent to outrage her
modesty
84,746
Maharashtra Uttar Pradesh M.P.
11,396 11,335 8,717
3 Kidnapping and abduction 64,519 Uttar Pradesh Maharashtra Bihar
12,994 6,170 5,496
4 Rape 38,947 Madhya Pradesh Uttar Pradesh
Maharashtra
4,882 4,816 4,189
Source: National Crime Report Bureau
The phrase, “crime against women,” refers to those crimes involving violence against female.
Two terms need clarification here (i) “crime,” (ii) “against women”. The letter term refers only
6 www.ncrb.gov.in
