Summary:
Reject useless demands“Our anguish over sexual crimes has been manipulated and directed towards death penalty. “We don’t have prosecutors who are trained to handle rape cases, specially those involving child rape survivors,” said the activist. This means that conviction rate in rape cases was just 25.5%. Of 38,947 rape cases in 2016, victims in 36,859 cases knew the offenders. In 2017, 34,651 rape cases were reported across India, of which Delhi alone reported 2,199 cases..