JOIN USA silent protest will be organised on Women's Day on Thursday to draw the attention towards justice for rape victims. New India Charitable Trust will hold the march from Mysore Bank Circle to Freedom Park to demand that the judiciary expedite judgement in rape trials.
Addressing the media, Vijay Tata and his wife Amrita Tata, founders of the trust said, "Even after the Nirbhaya incident and even after anti-rape laws were amended, nothing much has changed in the way we treat the rape victims and in the judiciary."
"If the judiciary is strong and delivers justice on time, then a sense of fear comes along and a person would think many times before committing heinous crimes like rape. Even in the Nirbhaya case, the rapists are still languishing in jail," he added.
Vijay Tata said that millions of cases are pending before the courts which continue to struggle due to lack of manpower, infrastructure, and reform in the legal and judicial framework. He said he will meet the Chief Justices of India and Karnataka to give a representation for speeding up of trials.
The trust shared some statistics about the rape scene in India, where 90% of rapes go unreported. Of those reported, only 30% go to the trial stage and of them, only 1/3rd result in imprisonment. In 2017, 34,651 cases of rape were reported in the country.