(40.04) Why does it take so long to judge rape in India?
Every 13 minutes a woman is raped in India - these statistics authorities In comparison to this, the rape trial is very low. The punishment is just like the numbness in the fingers.
Many women fighting rape are fighting for justice. Some of them are fighting this year, year after year.
One such woman is 16-year-old Lalita (this is not her real name, her name has been changed). Lalita's life is different from her other women.
After being raped by a man known to her family, she became pregnant in 2016. Then one of his sons was born. The boy is now a year and a half.
Lalit was born in a poor Dalit family of a village in Uttar Pradesh. They are two sisters. He is the smallest of all. Mother already died before. Father is an illiterate day laborer.
She is a friend of her father who is accused of raping her. His age is 55. She alleged that she was raped by a knife on the way while taking the friend's daughter to Uttar Pradesh's capital, Lucknow.
He said to Lalita's father that if there is an appeal to get some government help, then there will be no problem in marrying a girl.
Lalita said that she did not tell her father or sister anything about raping her at home. But only after a few months, when her pregnancy was not kept under control, rape cases became known. When the neighboring women started to question him, Lalita told them what happened in his life on the way to Lakhnau.
"I want to see him in jail. Nothing else," said Lalita.