Crime against Women: A Case Study of Bahadurgarh City | Original Article

ABSTRACT:

The semantic meaning of crime against women is direct or indirect physical or mental cruelty to women. Various kinds of violence against women are such as eve-teasing, molestation, bigamy, fraudulent marriage, adultery and enticement of married women abduction and kidnapping, rape, harassment to women at working place, wife beating, dowry death, female child abuse and abuse of elderly female etc. Almost every woman has experienced the feeling of being mistreated, trivialized, kept out, put down, ignored, assaulted, laughed at or discriminated against because of her gender. Present study describes spatial- temporal pattern of crime against women in study area. There are eleven categories of crime which come under ―crime against women‖. However, data at ward level in Bahadurgarh city could be available only for seven categories, i.e. rape, kidnapping, molestation, dowry death, torture (i.e. cruelty by husband or his relatives), murder (except dowry death), and sexual harassment. The data shows temporal pattern of crime against women at ward level in Bahadurgarh City. There were 523 cases reported under seven categories of ―crime against women‖ between 2001 to 2014. The cases under rape, kidnapping, dowry death, molestation, importation of girls, torture and murder are 62, 40, 19, 21, 44, 337 and 0 respectively. Efforts should be made to promote ‗a must education‘ criteria among women and provide educational facilities to them so that they can be made aware of the various provisions given to them by the Indian government. The wards which are more prone to crime against women should be given priority so that crime against women may be reduced. Responsible organizations should make widely available and fully publicize information on the existence of national, regional and international mechanisms for seeking redress when the human rights of women are violated.