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| Crime against women increased sharply, rapes steeply; conviction dismal | | 6 years of NC-Cong rule! | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 27: Despite vehement claims of women empowerment by ex-Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, crimes against women saw sharp increase in Jammu and Kashmir during the last six years of NC-Congress coalition government.
The day Omar resigned as Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir i.e. January 9, 2015; figures of crime against women stood at staggering 3192 in December 2014 with state contributing 1.12 percent in the total rape cases against women across the country. When Omar took over in the January 2009, Police had by that time registered 2295 cases of crime against women with 219 rape cases.
Aided by the then state minister and now, Provincial President of National Conference (NC) Nasir Aslam Wani, ex-Chief Minister would often talk about need to further intensify normal policing across the state but figures indicate that he failed to walk the talk. Omar's first year in office saw police registering 2624 cases of crime against women including 237 rape cases. Besides the figuring continuing to remain above 200, the figure was 18 cases higher than the number already registered in the year 2008.
This did not seemingly ring alarm bells in the corridors of NC-Congress coalition government which was then in power. The figure of crime continued to rise with police registering 245 rape cases in the year 2010. Though the overall crime against women did see some decline but the rape cases continued to mount. More worrying is the fact that just 5 people were convicted in the year 2010 for outraging modesty of women despite the fact that cases had been registered against 266 individuals.
The following year, 2011, J&K saw 277 females being raped and overall cases involving crime against women reached 3146. 349 accused were arrested while 346 were charge-sheeted but just 18 reached the stage of conviction. This includes those accused individuals who had already been booked in the earlier years for rape across various states of the state. In the overall scenario, 5098 persons were arrested for crime against women while 5089 were charge-sheeted but just 194 were convicted.
This shows how dismal was the performance of both Home and the Law Ministries of the outgoing Jammu and Kashmir government. What makes the situation ironic is the fact that these figures were being communicated to the state government as a matter of routine and should have evoked some credible response. But no such thing happened and as such, the total number of crimes against women reached 3328 in the year 2012.
303 rape cases were registered in this year. Of these, just 19 cases were convicted. 388 persons were arrested while 28 were convicted. The number further jumped in 2013, reaching 3509 in the year with 378 rape cases. Report of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB)State police arrested 404 persons but managed to convict just 36, a relatively small number when compared with crime reported in the year 2013.
Though 5262 accused were arrested and 5239 convicted, but the conviction was dismal. If the overall numbers are taken into consideration, more than 2000 cases rape cases were registered during the last six years, 1622 persons were arrested but a miserably low number of persons i.e.99 were convicted. This shows who serious the administration was in tackling the menace of crimes against the women folk.
During the last year i.e. 2014; 332 rape cases were registered by police by December 2014. Overall, crimes against women had reached 3192 in December with some officers telling Early Times that the figure has already crossed 3600. They maintain that figures are still gross under-estimates of the reality on ground since women are often too scared to come forward to report rapes or violence for fear that their families and communities will abandon them. For women, it takes a lot of courage to report a crime.
"There is a serious increase in crime against women in Jammu and Kashmir. Though being a conservative society, it is supposed to be women-friendly," said Ashima, a well known social rights activist. She said that need is to persuade the state government to take immediate steps and measures to prevent violent crimes against women. |
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