Raped?

Each time there is a natural disaster or a terrorist attack, the government awards compensation to the victims. So you have a relief for floods, earthquake, riot victims, blast survivors, so on and so forth..And now, every time a rape is reported, the victim will be entitled to monetary compensation, as a centre for relief for rape is on the anvil.

As per the scheme designed by the National Commission for Women[NCW] victims of rape will now get cash compensation of RS 2 lakh to Rs 5lakh.

--Rape victim or her legal heir can apply to the centre.

--The centre will be required to release Rs 20,000 as the interim relief to the victim.

--A copy of FIR and a medical report conforming the rape must accompany the application.

--The balance of the compensation amount will be handed over the course of the year.

This is absolutely absurd. It doesn't make any sense. You can't compensate a rape victim. What she wants is justice. She's not interested in money.

What is rape eventually? It is a gross crime! Instead of punishing the culprit, you are doing the reverse. By paying compensation to the victim are you trying to say theek hai, it is okay to rape? What kind of logic is this?

The need of the hour is an effective system which ensure faster rape trials. A centre for relief for rape will show at least some concern towards the rape victim.

While monetary compensation may help certain cases, what a victim perhaps needs most is: to regain her sense of self, to not to be called a 'rape victim' all her life, and most importantly, to see her perpetrator punished.