Women's Security is one of the formidable and onerous challenges for the world right now. In spite of the fact that the slogans of 'empowering women' are being raised with great clamor in the world. It is basically 'the superiority and inferiority complex' in the world that makes women mostly unsafe and insecure in the world. This socially constructed notion of 'inferiority and superiority gives men absolute authority over women. It is because of this absolute authority, men misuse their power and want to justify patriarchy which is already entrenched in our society. It is because of this culture she is not in a position to live a dignified and honorable life. The institution of patriarchy makes her life very awful and maladroit. Not only this, but she also has to face other abuses in society, such as domestic abuse. Still, there is a huge chunk of the population in the world who hate the institution of marriage not because they are anti-men but the matter of fact is that they are not in a position to fortitude the abusive jibes from their mother-in-law or father-in-law or from their own husbands who are also involved in these scornful acts that humiliate and decimate her blissful and equanimous life. Such forms of violence have deeply penetrated our society and such kind of violence has been profoundly legitimized to that extent, so it has become a normal part of our life. Nowadays, women are being expropriated from their inheritance which is their fundamental right, and there is the least number of people who are giving her the due share in the property. Our mental setup is biased to the extent that we consider women's dress style entirely responsible for disseminating venom and evil in society and in contrary to this, man is hardly held responsible. It is totally preposterous to blame a particular section of society. Having too much prejudice and stereotypic notion regarding women is a historical process. It is through this biased historical process we are embattling the mindset up of the coming generation, so that legacy of bias against women will not diminish. Women have been excluded for centuries in our society. Egoistic and rapacious men had every time taken full advantage of their debilitation to buttress and demonize her in society by leveling and fabricating charges against her. Women are not only the victims of domestic violence but of every form of violence overall and are enduring severe hardships in life because of men. Despite the fact that a man is considered a protector of women, he is not in a position to assure the protection of her honor and dignity from culprits. It indicates the chaotic and baffling environment of insecurity for women in the present times.

Crimes against women have manifested in the cruelest form. Heinous crimes like the Rape of women are common everywhere in the world. The only difference is that in countries like India, this filthy crime has transcended its limit. Violence against women is skyrocketing in India day by day at an unprecedented rate. It is not only men who are involved in these heinous crimes but states are also big collaborators of them, especially in times of war. Rape is rape, whether it occurs in the bedroom or in a public place. Rape is defined as the ‘unlawful sexual intercourse committed by a man with a woman through force and against her will.’ As per Ritika Singh, “Women since ancient times were treated as a man’s property. Thus, rape was not considered a crime against women, but rather a violation of a man’s property, which has made it cumbersome for women to have a place and voice in society.” On 16th December 2012,  a 23-year-old female was gang-raped by a group of six men in Delhi. This brutal and inhumane act shocked everyone in the country. The evidence shows that the rapists used an iron rod to sexually assault her and inserted the rod into her body. Due to severe intestinal damage, she died on Dec 28, 2012, from acute organ failure and critical injuries to her brain, in a hospital in Singapore. The most mindboggling and opprobrious thing is that such gruesome murder took seven years to hang the culprits. It was finally in March when justice was delivered to Nirbhaya’s family. But there are thousands of cases like Nirbhaya which are neither reported nor taken into consideration by the investigating teams. We have catastrophic cases like Kunan Pushpora or Shopian case that have not been resolved yet and these cases are considered as baseless and unproductive by the Indian judiciary. The same is the condition in other such cases in the country. Three years, a five-year-old Muslim girl belonging to the Gujjar community was first brutally raped and then murdered mercilessly. When her parents were demanding justice, political parties like BJP politicized it on the line of religion to save the culprit. In this case, a Hindu lawyer who was pleading the case was also threatened by Hindu Zionists with the intention of saving the culprits. Recently, on September 14, a 19-year-old Dalit girl was tortured and allegedly gang-raped by upper-caste men in Hathras in Uttar Pradesh. Her body was severely brutalized, and her tongue was cut. Limbs fractured and spinal cord damage. The woman succumbed to her injuries in a hospital in Delhi, a fortnight later. As shocking is the bestiality of the rapists, so is the abject failure and rather recklessness shown by the Uttar Pradesh police. Ostensibly, police accused the woman of lying and refused to register a rape complaint, and delayed taking the victim to a hospital for treatment. A police official even claimed that no rape took place as semen was not found inside the victim’s body. Ostensibly in a bid to destroy evidence, the victim’s body was quickly cremated in the dead of night by the police. Family members were neither allowed to see her body nor to be present at the cremation. Misogyny against Dalit women is too much in India, especially among upper caste people. A Dalit woman is raped not just to punish and humiliate the woman but also to her family and community. It is aimed at underscoring the powerlessness of Dalit men and the larger Dalit community to protect their women. Although the criminal law act 2013 provides for a wider definition of rape and for more stringent punishment, including a longer jail term in most cases of sexual assault. In spite of having strict criminal law against rape the incidence of rape is not diminishing in India but has instead increased by 31% over the past 10 years. Even police are reckless in registering complaints especially if the alleged assailant is rich or has political links or belongs to a dominant caste. Only a fraction of women who are raped file a complaint. Most victims prefer to remain silent because of the social stigma attached to rape. It is not uncommon for the victim to be blemished and aspersions to be cast on her character.

So it means crimes against women are rising. According to the latest NCRB report 2019, over 4 lakh reported cases of crimes committed against women have been registered. It has gone from 3 .59 lakh cases to 3.78 lakh cases in 2017 and 2018 respectively. NCRB reported 32033 rape cases which translate to a shocking 88 rape cases a day. This hi is just 10% of all crimes against women. Experts say that picture could be far worse as most such crimes go unreported in the country. NCRB data shows that in 2019, Uttar Pradesh topped the states in crimes against women with a whopping 59853 cases, followed by Rajasthan and Maharashtra with 41550 and 37144 cases respectively. The recent incident proves that the execution of the convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case ( that took place this year) had no effect on criminals. When the execution took place, it was assumed that it would send a strong message to perpetrators of such crimes, but the recent incidents of rape proved otherwise. One reason for this is the poor conviction rate and the long road to justice. In 2018 and 2019, the conviction rate for rape cases was below 30%, which means out of 100 only 30 saw convictions. The absence of forensic labs, fast-track courts, and investigators are also responsible for it to large extent.

It would be no exaggeration to say that the condition of women is loathsome in India. In other words, raising just mere slogans and delivering grandiloquent speeches are totally inefficacious and flapdoodle until and unless the slogans of ' women empowerment ' are implemented at the ground level. Even the culprits in India are espoused and cajoled by political parties to commit heinous crimes like raping women because rapists know the fact that they will be hardly punished by the Court because of the political support they are enjoying and they will be exonerated by the court with honor and dignity which is totally flabbergasting and preposterous. Those who are supporting these culprits should be given severe punishment by the court or police and cases regarding rape should be dealt with very severely. These cases are very sensitive and should be resolved by Court as soon as possible. Any delay in these cases or taking them recklessly is like encouraging rapists to commit these inhuman and heinous acts with valor and confidence. Issues of rape should not be politicized whether it happens with Hindu women or Muslim women because rapists have no religion and no humanity. Judiciary must be independent and sensitive in these cases and they should not buckle in front of political parties while delivering justice to victims in these cases. The need of the hour is to vehemently disapprove of every form of violence that is being perpetrated against women in our society whether it is lingual violence or physical violence or filthy jibes that are used against women in the society to make her life awful and disdain. We also need to unmask the myths created through the ruthless forces of history against women and also we need to disentangle her from oppressive social norms that clog her freedom and personality development. It means she needs freedom to the extent where she can live a dignified and honorable life in society.

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