Winter has already arrived and we do have enough fuel to have our Chatter-box Carriage’s engine moving endlessly while slipping into the blankets in our closed homes – be it criticizing Bollywood about making, time and again, meaningless movies, or the DDCA incident, or Big Boss 9, or it may also be about making arrangements related to Christmas or New Year celebration. But, the most important additive came out as “Juvenile Justice Bill”. After so many obstructions in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha sessions – the whole year, during discussions or debates on any issue, or during the presentation of important bills, finally one good thing (for the time being) happened by the end of this year, as Juvenile Justice Bill got passed. It was indeed the result of continuous efforts of Jyoti Singh’s parents, many other citizens of India, DCW chairperson – Swati Maliwal, and Women and Children Welfare Minister – Menka Gandhi.
But the questions that still remain unanswered are – “Was this a good, well-thought decision? What, if, God forbids, next time such an incident happens and the accused found to be of 15 years? Shall we again pass a bill reducing the age to 15 years for the consideration of adult culpability?”
Reducing the age to consider a person as juvenile is good, but not completely. The main focus should have been on transforming such an accused person into a good human being by keeping them at Rehabilitation Centres, monitoring their behaviour, and looking after them on a regular basis, and at the same time, punishing the accused in the “rarest of rare cases” by death too. Thus, reducing the age of adult culpability is, therefore, a sheer abdication on behalf of the state and central ministers.
We all have seen and heard of many incidents and cases involving rapes, physical violence, abduction, mental torture – in which the accused were of ages less than 18 years and some even less than 16 years. So, the main question is – What has to be done to stop such cases? What Indian government need to do to make India a better and peaceful place not only for Indian citizens, but for foreigners also?
The first and foremost important step they need to take is – to restrict the access of porn sites to persons above 20 years. It has been seen and even reported many times that children in age groups of 12 – 16 years do have access to porn videos at such a tender age. It has to be stopped. They (Indian Government) need to come up with a solution for this as soon as possible. It is sure that giving access to adults doesn’t mean 100% reduction in such crimes, but there will be a downfall for sure. Individuals after 20 years do have a better understanding, maturity and the required capability to differentiate between right or wrong. And, to make them capable of taking the right decisions, proper education is a must. Various programs are running to provide quality education to one and all, but there is a need to implement it in a more well-planned way to increase its outreach to far villages.
It’s also the duty of parents to keep an eye on their children, to look after them seriously and to make them aware of what is right and wrong, how to respect others and how to spread love and happiness and peace. It’s not a one day work. It has to be done in a systematic and well-planned way, but not at slow speed. Only then we can imagine India as a safer place for Women and a peaceful nation without any internal conflict.
