Rape and Culture of Impunity

A popular incident took place in Kathmandu on 30^th November 2012 while a lady was raped by a government employee, while she was returning back from the Saudi Arabia. Name of the victim is Sita Rai (name changed) from Bhojpur district, she is pregnant now, first she was robbed and later on she was raped by police man and second class officer of Tribhuwan International Airport(TIA).

This is only for an example; there are countless victims in our city, society. According to the police data; one rape takes place every 24 hours across the country. If we go through the data from 2009 to 2013 the case is increasing every year, in 2009 December, 19 rape cases were reported, but in July 2012 alone reported 52 rape cases.

As per the statistic of rape ,one rape takes place every 24 hours in Nepal, and the important thing is out of 30 rape case throughout the country 10 were reported in Kathmandu. 

The male dominated society have impacted a lot in Nepal, still many girls are being victim mentally, physically, but never lodge complain against culprit, the victims are stay quit, because of other aspect of society. Some people don’t like to complain because of fear, threatened by the rapist, some don’t do to protect the image in the society, some people give torture to victim, some provide some MONEY for the mistake. I have seen some cases are negotiated by the two sides by the help of so called people of village, society. So, what will be the impact of this? I just went through a story of a 13 years girl she has been raping by a person since long time but she was threatened not to leak this incident for her life.

Therefore, I can say impunity is there, guilty are rescued by political leader, so called gentle people of the society, politics never brought change in this regard but have protected such people.

Another bad luck of the society is that weak rule and regulation. Law should be very strict to decrease such incident.

 But our law is like this; the guilty of raping girl below 14 years get from 6 to 10 years and above 14 get 3 to 5 years prison.

That’s much by the law, but people pay more money will be free in same day ?So how to solve such problem guys, lets hold hand one by one and take some initiation from today …….

Nitu Ghale 

@ Sanepa