Compromisu Tribunal? A dangerous trend, forcing people who survived to marry the attackers

In a deep judgment, the Supreme Court Allahabad recently gave a deposit to rape, provided that he married the survivor within three months.

This ruling is not only aberration, but a part of the disturbing pattern in which the courts, instead of maintaining justice, prioritize social calming down the rights and dignity of the survivors.

The idea that marriage can be a solution to sexual violence is a regressive and dangerous concept that not only undermines the gravity of the crime, but also exerts excessive pressure on the survivors to accept injustice under the pretext of social acceptance.

Such verdicts send fossilized news that rape is not a shameful crime that deserves a close punishment, but rather for a negotiating crime that can be resolved through a forced marriage.

Bitter judgments of the past

Justice is to be a lighthouse of hope, the leitmotiva for the boxes, a force that punishes guilty and protects the innocent. However, what will happen when the institutions entrusted with the protection of justice begin to reveal the survivors that are to protect? This is the gloomy reality of the current India legal system, in which the courts have repeatedly tried to turn the rape into a negotiated crime, a matter that can be “solved” not through punishment, but through forced reconcilement crowded in the name of social peace.

This is not an isolated event. India’s courts have a history of reducing the brutality of sexual violence to ordinary social disputes that can be decided through marriage.