DONT HESITATE IN KILLING THE RAPIST

advocate of Supreme Court Arvind Jain,called upon girl students of Lucknow University not only to learn the art of self-defence, but never to hesitate in killing the man who tries to outrage their modesty, because in India fighting a case against rapist was far more difficult than fighting a case of murder in self-defence. "When state fails to deliver justice, people take law in their hands. Nagpur is an example, where a rape victim led the crowd to kill the rapist," he quipped, amidst claps and cheers by girls at the Lucknow University, where the lawyer had come to deliver a lecture on "Law and violence on women". "Law allows a person to kill in self-defence and a woman to protect her modesty. In a decision, Supreme Court has held that a father who killed a rapist while defending her daughter was an act in ‘self-defence’. "Believe me, if 10-20 Nagpur like incidents happen in this country, rape cases would come down drastically," he said. "In my view, rape is an attempt of male community to terrorise the entire female community, telling them look it can happen with you as well if you will refuse to obey the male," he said. Don’t keep quiet thinking about ‘family respect’, report cases of molestation and rape. Fifty per cent of such cases are never reported because rapists are from within the family or a neighbour or a relative," he said and added that women should openly come out in support of victims. Earlier, delivering a lecture on ‘Law and violence on women’ at Institute of Women’s Studies (IWS),

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