00:00You know, first of all, because you're someone who've advocated for women's rights for so many years,
00:05what goes into your mind and heart when you see such kind of cases emerge again and again?
00:11See, the fact is that at one point of time, we say that we're supposed to be following the
00:17constitution of India and we are in 2025. But there's a whole large section of our society
00:24which is really living in medieval times. And the law has absolutely no meaning for them.
00:30They have total disregard for the law. So to implement the law and to follow the law is a big challenge.
00:38But this challenge has to be undertaken by one, the police who is the implementing agency
00:45and secondly, by the judiciary. But both are miserably failing in their task.
00:51Neither does the police arrest the culprit. It's so difficult for a girl who would, you know,
00:57how much difficulty for her to speak out, whether it's a case of sexual abuse, whether it's rape,
01:03there's always a stigma or, you know, this kind of allegations of dowry. There's always a stigma.
01:09And for the girl to speak up and go to the police station, what do the police do?
01:13They do not register her complaint. They do not register her complaint. And even with great difficulty,
01:21the complaint does get registered. The whole trial is so slow that it's very, all the witnesses
01:28start turning first time and the judiciary is totally collapsing because there's no, the laws may say
01:34time bound trial, but there is no time bound trial and judgments are reserved and delayed for months.
01:43So, I mean, this is a very, very sad reflection of our time of what is happening.
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