As in other countries throughout the world rape is common in India.  Rape is a social disease.  Hardly a day passes without a case of rape being reported in Indian Newspapers and Media. In India according to the official records, around 1000 women get raped every year, which generally belonged to dalit groups inhabited areas.  Out of the total number of women kept in police custody, 70% had been subjected to physical and sexual abuse.  Some years back, one Bhanwari Devi or Rajasthan was gang raped because she took up the risk of reporting an incident of child marriage in her place.  In India especially in Calcutta, women are put into a number or atrocities during police interrogation.

            The fear of rape or molestation is fairly widespread in both rural and urban areas, more particularly for women or girls of the poorer or disempowered sections of the society.  The cases reported under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention) of Atrocity ACT, 1989 reveal that women of dalits are subjected to rape.  Thus women belonging to low castes and tribal women are more at risk.  According to the National Crime Records Bureau, the number of women, subjected to rape has risen to 40% in the last five years.  At least 2 girl children are raped in India every day is equally shocking.  Establishment of special courts to deal with the rapists stringently merits consideration at this stage.