Shillong, August 18: Meghalaya Peoples Human Rights Council (MPHRC) has strongly slammed the government of Meghalaya for turning a blind eye toward the rising crimes against women and young girls in the State which have been steadily rising over the past reflecting the need for greater gender sensitization despite the fact of the clarion call of the Chief Minister, Dr. Mukul Sangma through the various governmental agencies about his repeated theoretical publicity to implement one protection measure after another to ensure the safety in Meghalaya.
“With the ongoing day to day crime scenario while the Forensic Medicine is suppose to play an important role in helping to prevent, early detection, providing expert medico-legal and scientific reports at earliest, which will result in quick trial and instant administration of justice to victims. However due to lack of legal or medico-legal and scientific awareness and knowledge among ‘victims, investigating agencies, medical and paramedical staff, the end result is either ‘justice hurried is justice buried’ or ‘justice delayed is justice denied’ to the victim” said Dino D.G. Dympep, Chief MPHRC.
“The recent Data on Meghalaya by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) under the Ministry of Home Affairs show that the number of reported incidents of crime against women more than doubled a growth in the number of cases of rape, kidnapping and abduction” said MPHRC.
“The figures as documented in this regard are disturbing from the human development perspective however it seems that in Meghalaya in spite of having Roshan Warjri, a women toothless Home Minister, the department concerned on women issues is still sleeping which should be strongly slammed for their failure to develop a human development and human rights understanding to the present chronic problem thereby giving an upper hands to perpetrators to scot free” said MPHRC.
There is need to give importance to Forensic Nursing, positive impact medico-legal knowledge to paramedical and health workers in rural and semi-urban levels as to how to handle case of crimes committed against women and report them as ‘One accused acquitted means breeding of hundred criminals. Prevention and detection is better than conviction’ said MPHRC.
