Are Jessica lal,Priyadarshini Mattu cases an inspiration for those who are fighting for their loved ones?

Question

I think all these cases are agreat inspiration for those who are fighting for justice.There are a lot of cases in India which are still hanging.So i think that in this way i can give the encouragement to those who are looking for justice.so you can do this great deed by answering this Q.

Answer 1

Justice meted out to the relatives of these two cases, though late only proves a point that we do live in a country where justice may be delayed but not denied. Also, public opinion does make a lot of difference along with the media intervention.

It encourages other families of victims not to lose hope in the system.

Answer 2

Not only to those who are fighting for justice but also to all of us these 2 cases are of great inspiration. For those who could not get justice in past also these two cases are a sort of relief.

Answer 3

Inspired is great, but what do the people want? Justice to some is too aggressive, look at the democrats in the U.S.
India's answer is to change the minds of terrorism. It doesn't work, or so they say.

Answer 4

Definitely.
You can just feel the revolution these cases have generated in the common mass about their rights.

Answer 5

A female crime-fighting unit is trying to stem the tide of sexual attacks against women in India, where up until recently rapists were almost never punished for their crimes.

The victims often refuse to pursue their attackers through the courts due to threats, pay-offs, or out of shame in their traditional society, which often blames the victim for the attack.

"It's not an easy job trying to bring these people to justice. But we are at it, as this is the beginning of a longer process to address this menace," said female lawyer Aparna Bhat, who heads the "Rape Crisis Cell".

The cell is a dedicated unit with three female lawyers empowered to represent the city's rape victims -- which sometimes include children and even babies -- under a local government initiative to curb sex crimes in the Indian capital.

The lawyers' dedication is a far cry from the past when overworked and often disinterested government lawyers prosecuted such crimes in India's courts.

"The biggest problem was we couldn't represent the victims in court because under India law, only the public prosecutor can represent the victim. This has been changed now," Bhat said.

Bhat's team criss-cross Delhi and nearby towns attempting to persuade rape victims to speak up and fight for justice. Many rapes are never reported to police.

"Just recently we got a life sentence. That's unheard of," Bhat said, commenting on the difficulty of securing the maximum sentence available in a justice system widely seen as corrupt.
Children under attack

Child victims are hardest to deal with and they make up a disturbing number of cases: about 40 percent of the rape cases being handled by Bhat's team involve girls under 18 years of age.

"Children are really scared to speak against known people, and in most cases, it is someone known to them who rapes the child," she explained.

Last year, in Delhi a father raped his 10-year-old daughter for a month. Eventually the girl told a neighbor who took her to the police.

The man, a daily-wage laborer, was arrested, but when the case came up in court, the girl changed her mind, saying her father was innocent, she loved him and wanted to go home.

The case began to fall apart -- until Bhat arrived.

"It was clear she had been threatened," she said.

"It showed on her face. We persuaded her to speak the truth, assuring her nothing will happen to her. She spoke the truth and the man was sentenced to life. Had we not been there, the case would have been closed."

The youngest victim Bhat is handling is an 18-month-old child, raped by a pavement dweller in December 2005.

The girl, whose parents are homeless laborers, still suffers from pain and bleeding from the attack.

"Thank God the mother was determined to fight the case so we could represent the child. Otherwise, it would have been very difficult for us to nail the culprit," Bhat said.

The case is still before the courts.

Hundreds of people migrate every day to Delhi, a sprawling metropolis of more than 14 million people, from neighboring smaller towns and villages in search of a more prosperous life.

But the transient nature of many of the city's neighborhoods also leads to increased crime, commentators say.

"People don't know each other, making it easier to commit crimes like rape," said Ranjana Kumari, who heads the Centre for Social Research, a think-tank.

Kumari also blames an overburdened judicial system and a lack of government action for the small number of rape convictions.

"The system is very insensitive and unsympathetic to rape victims," she said. "We have been fighting for a special fast-track court for rapes but there has been no response from the government so far."

Answer 6

yes ofcourse why not