BHUBANESWAR: The Odisha Patita Udhar
Samiti (OPUS) on Monday urged Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik through the State
Commission for Women (SCW) to declare Rs 10 lakh to give as compensation to
each rape victim as a policy within 45 days for their survival and to enable
them to leave a normal life.
Around one hundred members of the
Samiti came in a procession starting from the Blind Association office to the front
of the SCW office here protesting injustice caused to rape victims of the
State.
Samiti secretary Abharani Choudhury
said the State Government always declares compensation of Rs 10 lakh to the
family members of deceased rape victims to avoid any kind of protest from the
oppositions, public and social activists, but the Government never think about to
declare the same amount for the rape victims who are living in the society.
She further said that Rashmita
Behera, deaf and dumb dalit rape victim of Barakota (Badasada) Angul district, was
given Rs 20,000 as compensation, while the State had declared Rs 2, 95,000 to Sunita
Bindhani, a rape victim of Indapahi in Mayurbhanj district, when the deceased’s
family threatened to stage dharana in front of the residence of the Women and
Child Development Minister here by the deaf associations.
She said that 10,725 rape cases
have been reported from the year 2000 to 2011. Out of the total rape cases
reported during these years, 619 of rape cases on scheduled castes and 407 of
rape cases on scheduled tribe and approximately more than 1400 of rape cases
have been reported in the year 2012, she added.
“If the State Government does not
give Rs 10 lakh as compensation to all rape victims, they will move to the High
Court regarding violation of constitutional right in respect of rape victims.”
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