The Ancient & Most Successful Ways to stop Rapes: Let’s move back to our golden past
Manu Smriti says that the offender must be burnt to death and moreover this punishment should be exercised by the king as soon as possible.
When we talk of rights of women, I see that our Constitution has definitely bestowed them with many. But still there are subjects which remained untouched or not taken seriously by Baba Saheb Ambedkar.
Must be Baba Saheb busy in studying the constitution of other countries because he had monstrous task of drafting the Indian Constitution. But thousands of years ago there was a man, probably known as the first human according to Hindu ideology, the great saint Manu who had plenty of time thinking about the small issues in human life, finding out their solutions and compiling them in a book.
He made rules relating to small small aspects of life, let’s discuss some –
Whenever we say to start anything, we always boast of ladies first, but never think from where there this concept has been originated, now here is its origination.
Now these are the shlokas of Manu Smriti which clearly mentions that while travelling, eating etc. we should follow the concept of ladies first.
Now lets move towards the worst crime with women, yes, I am talking about rapes and kidnapping cases. The news which are mushrooming these days. Let’s see what Manu Smriti says about these subjects-
According to Manu Smriti, if a person steals or kidnaps’ women, he should be killed by the king for this offence. And we see, we have the great example of Ramayana everyone knows what happened to Ravana. Now see what is the punishment of rape.
Manu Smriti says that the offender must be burnt to death and moreover this punishment should be exercised by the king as soon as possible. If king is busy that in case the punishment could be exercised by any authorized person of the society.
According to Garun Puran, the book of punishments of Hindu ideology the rapist should be thrown to vicious snakes’, they should be crushed by animals.
We see that in ancient Bharat, when these punishments were in implementation, people rarely heard of even single rape case. The framers of the Constitution can’t even think of these punishments but I am sure even if the two persons got these punishments, there would be reduction of 50% in this crime. Maybe the framers of the Constitution dreamt of utopian India where such types of crimes rarely exist or maybe he dreamt of western India where people don’t bother much about sex before marriage.
I only wish had the framers of the Constitution taken the respect of females seriously and instead of studying the Constitution of other countries, read some of the ancient Indian books then they would have given some better punishments for the worst crimes.
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Ambedkar is not the person solely responsible for the Constitution, so –
1. We neither need to give him the entire credit by calling him the ‘Architect of the Indian Constitution’
2. Nor do we need to demonize him for not drafting the constitution properly as per your article.
Source : https://www.constitutionofindia.net/
“After the first session of the Constituent Assembly, a number of committees were formed to look into and report on various aspects of the Constitution.
These Committees submitted their reports to the Constituent Assembly during the period of April – August 1947. In parallel, as and when the Committees submitted their reports, the Constituent Assembly debated the broad principles that were set out in the recommendations of these committees. These debates came to a close on the 30th of August 1947
On 29th August 1947, the Constituent Assembly through a resolution appointed a Drafting Committee to scrutinise the draft of the text of the Constitution of India prepared by Constitutional Adviser, giving effect to the decisions already taken in the Assembly and including all matters which are ancillary thereto or which have to be provided in such a Constitution, and to submit to the Assembly for consideration the text of the draft constitution as revised by the committee…’
The Drafting Committee had seven members: Alladi Krishnaswami Ayyar, N. Gopalaswami; B.R. Ambedkar, K.M Munshi, Mohammad Saadulla, B.L. Mitter and D.P. Khaitan. At its first meeting on 30th August 1947, the Drafting Committee elected B.R Ambedkar as its Chairman.
Towards the end of October 1947, the Drafting Committee began to scrutinise the Draft Constitution prepared by the B.N Rau, the Constitutional Advisor. It made various changes and submitted the Draft Constitution to the President of the Constituent Assembly on 21 February 1948.
Majority of the debates in Constituent Assembly revolved around the Draft Constitution(s) prepared by the Drafting Committee. Out of 166 sittings of the Constituent Assembly, 114 were spent debating the Draft Constitution(s).”
Coming to rapes, in this democracy, the problem is identifying the culprit (we don’t want to hang the wrong guy, right) and ensuring that all the stages of law are passed and he is finally convicted. With the number of cases pending in the courts, how long will the process take, we don’t know !
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