What is the punishment for rape? There are many answers to this question. Some ask for hanging and some demand for cutting off the penis. Now a similar law has been approved by the Parliament of Pakistan. No, no. There is no law to cut the penis, but chemical castration of habitual offenders of rape has been allowed.
Habitual offender means those people who have been found guilty in more than one case of rape. By the way, castration means cutting off a person’s testes. Actually, due to the androgen hormone produced in the testes, the qualities of men come in men. But this is not done in chemical castration. In this, with the help of drugs, the production of hormones produced in a man’s testes is reduced. It is also called androgen suppression therapy or hormone therapy.
Due to reduced production of hormones, sex drive in men decreases. However, having chemical castration does not mean that the person will be impotent and will never be able to be sexually active. After the drugs and their effect wear off, the sex drive of the person comes back.
According to the bill passed in the joint session of the Pakistani Parliament,
“Chemical castration is a process by which the use of drugs can make a person ineligible for sexual intercourse for a specified period of time. For how long this has to be done, this court will decide. And the process will be done by a Notified Medical Board.
So far, only in some states of Poland, South Korea, the Czech Republic and the United States, rape convicts are punished with chemical castration.
According to reports, in less than four percent of rape cases in Pakistan, the culprits get punished. After the news of the bill being passed, some people called it a good decision. At the same time, some people said that till the conviction rate in rape cases in Pakistan does not increase, then bring any punishment, it will not be of any use.
One user wrote,
“Pakistan passed an anti rape bill. In which the talk of chemical castration has been written. This is just a political farce. It won’t make much difference. On the one hand, punishment is found in very few cases. From above the society is such that only the victim is punished here. In such a situation, even case reports are negligible.
There are strict laws against rape in India. There is a provision of hanging and life imprisonment, although the punishment of castration or chemical castration is not given in India. It is another matter that for a long time there has been a demand for punishment for chemical castration in India.
In the year 2018, the Kathua gang rape case came to the fore. There was a case of gang rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl for several days. There was outrage in the whole country due to this case. There was a demand to hang the accused, even to hang them at the crossroads. According to a report in The Print, in April 2018, some representatives of the Supreme Court’s Women Lawyers Association demanded from the Prime Minister’s Office that rape convicts be punished with chemical castration. They demanded that along with the death penalty, it has become necessary that chemical castration of the culprits should also be done in the rarest of the rare cases of rape. In May, the Prime Minister’s Office had asked the Ministry of Women and Child Development to take necessary steps on these demands.
THE SCOOP INDIA
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