Vibhuti at Demonstration against VAW 22-12-2012

In the beginning of the anti-rape movement, many women's groups had put forward the demand to the state that it should increase its number of women judges to ensure gender-justice and more police-women to ensure sympathetic treatment to women victims. But the last one decade has given ample evidence that just by virtue of being women; they are not going to be more sensitive or judicious about women's issues. Women judges and women police being representatives of the state do not behave differently from the male judges when it comes to taking sides. After all Maya Tyagi was inhumanly tortured by a woman police constable who also encouraged her male colleagues to rape her. Women officials in jails and remand-homes behave as inhumanly with women in their custody as their male counterparts behave. The government had set up several judicial inquiries to contain public fury after an individual case of rape or cases of mass rape were reported. Reports of the inquiry Commissions gather dust in the government offices, not circulated or discussed widely. None of their recommendations are implemented. To the government, this exercise is a safety valve tactics to contain public fury.