Are we becoming beasts???

The recent Surat gangrape made me wonder... Are we increasingly turning into an insensitive, inhumane and immoral society? What else would explain the recent spurt in rape cases that is getting highlighted in this country? Undoubtedly, the reason could be that nowadays the media is getting more involved in bringing them out sensationalising them, which in a way has helped us to ask ourselves such questions.
But what are the causes for increase in rape cases in India? Some might say that it is the belief that people can get away with. Most of the time women are afraid to come out because of the backward notion that many places it is considered to be women’s fault (even if they are young children). The fear of going public is there because many times the society shuns them away and it becomes difficult to find suitable match for them. And if everything is fine then the slowness with which they get justice means that they undergo harassment by people looking at her and showing contemptuous sympathy. Animals take advantage of all these factors and go on committing one of the most heinous crimes ever known to mankind.
What should be done to make sure that these cases are brought to limelight and people gets justice? First of all I feel that a strong precedent should be sent across everyone that these things would not be taken lightly. The amount of interest shown by Maharashtra’s CM in Shiney Ahuja’s case is commendable but the same swiftness should be shown in another rape cases also as all the rape victims undergo same agonising pain. When I talk of strong precedent should be sent across I mean that the punishment should be such a way that people should think twice before committing such crimes. A stricter law in itself wouldn’t serve purpose; there is a greater need for making sure that the guilty are punished and punished fast. There has been a far larger debate on whether to use death penalty as a deterrent. But until or unless such strict measures are taken and people understand the gravity of this crime, it’s going to be very difficult for us to stop this crime. Human Rights commission people might come and speak against such laws. But where are these people when these girls are raped? And would they still oppose if their own relatives undergo such trauma?One thing that we need to keep in mind is that rape is one of the most heinous crimes that can be committed by a human being. The importance of a stricter law can be gauged from the fact that “A woman who is murdered dies once but a woman who is raped dies everyday”.