Women lawyers had written to the PMO saying chemical castration of child rapists in the rarest of rare cases is the need of the hour besides death penalty.
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I am curious to know in which countries punishment of chemical castration to a rapist is on their law books. I am afraid there won’t be many. Is death penality less deterrent, a punishment than chemical catration? I don’t think so. I don’t think a man would prefer a death than accepting chemical castration as punishment, to save his male ego. It is open to debate. Experts on human psychology and sociology can throw light on this matter. However, we cannot turn our eyes other way knowing well that our legal system is over burdened and leaky at times, and work ethnics of police, the less said about it the better it would be. Kathua rape case, Unnao rape case and rape in madrasa somewhere in UP has given new dimension to rapes in India. The gravity of rapes and who will speak for justice of victim will depend upon who is the victim and who is the accused. If they are of same religion, it is less grave but if they are from different religions, it is grave. Many people will speak, however, in different voices. Will chemical castration help here? When voices in the society get divided over the crime as heinous as rape , there is something gravely sickening within the society. The society has perhaps lost its human values. In such social situation the harsher the law becomes the easier will it become for the rapists to escape it.
I am curious to know in which countries punishment of chemical castration to a rapist is on their law books. I am afraid there won’t be many. Is death penality less deterrent, a punishment than chemical catration? I don’t think so. I don’t think a man would prefer a death than accepting chemical castration as punishment, to save his male ego. It is open to debate. Experts on human psychology and sociology can throw light on this matter. However, we cannot turn our eyes other way knowing well that our legal system is over burdened and leaky at times, and work ethnics of police, the less said about it the better it would be. Kathua rape case, Unnao rape case and rape in madrasa somewhere in UP has given new dimension to rapes in India. The gravity of rapes and who will speak for justice of victim will depend upon who is the victim and who is the accused. If they are of same religion, it is less grave but if they are from different religions, it is grave. Many people will speak, however, in different voices. Will chemical castration help here? When voices in the society get divided over the crime as heinous as rape , there is something gravely sickening within the society. The society has perhaps lost its human values. In such social situation the harsher the law becomes the easier will it become for the rapists to escape it.