Earlier this week the news of an 8 month old girl child being raped by her 28 year old cousin shook Delhi and the whole nation.

As per a report by the Hindustan Times, the parents of the infant are daily wage workers, who used to leave her with the mother of the accused as they had to go for work. One day he found her alone and forced himself upon her and committed this heinous act. The child is now admitted in AIIMS and is in critical condition and has stirred every person’s soul in the nation.

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Delhi based popular RJ Naved went on air to address his concern over the matter in his own way by sensitizing his listeners on Sexual harassment and by making them understand the depth of the situation of declining safety of females in the country.

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He did put forth some saddening arguments, which are going viral these days on various social media platforms. Usually RJ Naved is famous for his telephonic pranks but this time he took this serious issue and called up a gynaecologist and told him that his wife is pregnant and he willing to get her an abortion as his wife was conceived with a baby girl. The doctor, who without a thought got furious and said,

“Ladka chahiye hoga, aapko?”

To which Naved replied:

“Ladki hi chahiye thi, par rape ho jaega uska.”

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Addition to which he said that for a long time people did not want to give birth to a girl child because they weren’t incapable of giving dowry or getting her a good education, but now the reasons have drastically changed. They are scared because they do not want her to get raped.

Earlier, they were scared about what will happen when she grows up, but now there’s a girl as young as 8 months old who was raped.

Naved also slammed the slogan ‘beti bachao, beti padhao’. 

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He said that we have presumed that she is in a dire need of protection and also she is uneducated. The problem lies within men and their practices plus mindset of undermining her worth and harass her, suppress her, and so the slogan should be

‘bete ko batao, aur na maane to thappad lagao’ .

There are many other hard hitting things he said in the monologue. You can listen to it here:

This makes us worry on various levels, specially that where are we heading with such crimes being committed in our nation, makes us wonder if females are not even safe in home that what place on earth they could be safe in? Long term solution to the problem can be only seen in better moral and sex education at both school and household as its effect can be widespread and can affect the mindset of a large set of population. Hope the authorities and society gets awake at the correct time or else there would be no time our society would transcend into darker horizons from where we could never pull back ourselves.