ACCORDING TO NCRB (Statistics for the year 2010)
*16373 women were raped during the year.
*45 women were raped everyday.
*44098 cases of sexual harrasment was reported during the year.
*121 women were sexually harrased everyday.
*1 woman is sexually harrased in every 12 minutes......
And we all are well accquainted with the fact the the rates are always double that what is showcasted. So now my dear friends you can well our plight!....Nevertheless here we are to calculate the AFTERMATH of rape.!...For this it is mandatory that you are familiar with the "2 finger test"-- A test so brutal and rash that it can be held at par with rape itself.
::::::::: In India the two finger test is done to determine the virginity of a woman after she is raped. It involves the doctor inserting fingers in a rape victim's vagina to test its "laxity" and decide if she is habituated to sex.Defense lawyers often use this evidence to discredit the testimony of unmarried rape victims, who are then dismissed as *loose women*.! This test is based on the principle that the hymen sheath or the virgin knot is the sol indicator of virginity. .... At this juncture I am perplexed so as whether I should blush with emabarrasment or weep with shock at the ignorance level of our nation. Even a student who has studied biology until 10th standard can firmly affirm that the hymen sheath can be ruptured during streneous physical activities like dancing, horse riding, acobatics etc and it is certainly not the viable test for virginity.
Supreme Court of India has ruled that the results of a ‘finger test’ cannot be used against a woman, and that a rape survivor’s ‘habituation to sexual intercourse’ is immaterial, this ‘unscientific, inhuman and degrading’ test is still widely used in India.........Let me give you some real life instances of the poor ladies ( adapted from Femina)
Lily*, a 20-year-old graduate student from Manipur, was raped by an unidentified man in Delhi. The shell-shocked young woman shivers violently, as she describes the crime. But the ordeal, she says, didn’t end there. A few hours after she was raped, she had to undergo a medical examination, which she says, was “as awful as the rape itself” as it involved finger penetration of her anus. She talks about the torture post the traumatic rape.
“A few months ago, I was raped on the way home from work. I didn’t know the man. My family and a police team took me to Safdarjung Hospital, Delhi, for a medical examination. During the medical examination, the lady doctor inserted fingers into my anus and took vaginal swipes too. I was bleeding; I was in extreme pain and crying.”
“I had been raped after being thrown into a thorny bush and there were thorns embedded all over my body. Later, at the police station, Sector 23 Dwarka, my sister-in-law slowly extracted several thorns from the soles of my feet and my body, and clumps of hair from my head that the rapist had pulled out. I was beaten black and blue by him and couldn’t move my neck at all. He hit me hard several times on my head and face, but none of my injuries were examined.”
“Instead, I had to give my statement countless times to the police and to the doctor. The doctor refused to hand over the medical report to the police saying that until an FIR was lodged, he couldn’t do it. There was some confusion over the area jurisdiction as well. Then we drove to the site of the incident on an extremely foggy night and finally, after hours, managed to locate the spot. After we found evidence and my mobile phone, which the man had snatched and flung, the police report was finally lodged. We went to the hospital after that to get the medico-legal certificate. My family had to get private medical treatment for my injuries and now they are taking me to a counsellor at St Stephen’s hospital.”
—Lily *, 20, Delhi
*NAMES CHANGED ON REQUEST
A victim's friend expressed her misery:: (pertaining to 2 finger test)
" A nurse, Radhika and I were present int he room. The nurse asked Radhika to remove her salwar and sleep on the examination table.The nurse spread the girl's legs and called the doctor in. Two doctors were present during the examination (both male). The samples were collected by a doctor who was wearing gloves. He examined the vulva and took the vulval swab. Then he spread the labia to examine the external opening of the vagina. He found fresh tears and asked the other doctor to note them. He then inserted his two fingers inside he vaginal opening and noted that the two fingers were going in easily. The girl twitched in pain. He wiped his hands on a few slides possibly to make a smear. No other examination was done on her body even though she had injuries all over."
Sigh!...........
Well.........I just wanted you to know that living as a girl aint easy in this nasty world of machos out there...
but:::
WOMEN ARE LIKE ANGELS AND EVEN WHEN SOMEONE BREAKS THEIR WINGS THEY CONTINUE TO FLY---------- ON BROOMSTICKS!.......and oh yes.....we will fly...we will soar on the sky most high :)....We just have to be bold, brave and united AND THERE IS ONLY ONE REQUEST i PUT FORWARD TO YOU....STOP BEING A MERE SPECTATOR...YOU CAN DO MUCH MORE THAN SIMPLE PROVIDING YOUR EYES WITH A FEAST.
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