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You must have seen this image circulating on Internet everytime a major incident of rape occurs.

But there is a problem I observe here,

First, the way ‘instant’ is written is wrong.

Like in India, it takes years for them to prove rape. There is no legal system where death penalty is given ‘instant’ except North Korea where it is given for not saluting its dictator too.

In UAE, married women are often arrested after they are raped for having ‘sex outside marriage’. In 2016, they arrested a woman who was gangraped for having sex with other men.

In Afganistan, its the same. In 2009, a woman named Gulnaz was raped by a relative and SHE got a 12 year prison term for having sex outside marriage. She bore the child of the rapist who was born in the prison itself. Her sentence was later forgiven by the president after she had already served for 2 years inside the jail.

Also in Afganistan, raped women are discarded by the society, and are termed as ‘Badnaam’ and in many cases are later honour killed. During Soviet Afgan war the soviets kidnapped and raped many women who never returned home in the fear of being killed.

In Iran, rape victims are required to prove their rape by providing two witnesses. If the rapists pay them money, they are free to compromise and this is called ‘Jirrah’ and incase of murder ‘Jirrah’ is called ‘Diyya’ but in both the cases of rape and murder it can be compromised and the judges even persuade victims to compromise.

In China, when the criminal statute initially came up, they termed rape as Whoring, resulting in rape victims being labelled as prostitutes. Even though the word was amended, women in China don’t speak up and there was a report of a man who had raped over 100 women but none reported cuz of the social stigma attached.

There are many countries with which this comparison has been done, like Israel, where it is said that they give death penalty, but actually maximum punishment for rape is 16 years of jail.

There are only 56 countries where they still observe death penalty. Out of this 6 maintain death penalty only for specific offences, like Brazil has death penalty only for Treason. 32 countries have abolished it in practice by not giving a single death penalty in 10 years. We thus are left with only 18 countries that actively give death penalty, and in half of them the victim gets punished for having sex with other men.

Point is, this is a misinformation possibly spread to agitate people. People agitate for death punishment thinking India is the only country where they don’t give it. Consequence is that we go nowhere.

IMO The actual demand in India should be of speedy trial and stronger police patrolling and also change in societal attitude. 

Rape cases in India keep hanging in courts like property disputes. Demanding death penalty in India is of no fruitfulness as we already are one of the few countries that give death penalty without making the VICTIM guilty for it. We only need speedy trial, we already have the law.

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