Indian Rights body opposes Chemical castration

New Delhi:Despite women’s organizations and protesters putting pressure on the Government for introducing chemical castration for rapists, an Odisha-based rights organization  has opposed this suggestion and said it is a human rights violation.

The India Media Centre (IMC), which is also a petitioner before NHRC in Delhi gang rape case and police brutality on anti-rape rally in India Gate and Jantar Mantar, wrote to the Justice J.S. Verma Committee not to introduced chemical castration for rapists as it is human rights violation of a living being. By the way the Organization has suggest death penalty for rapists as it is a demand of every country man.

Rights Activist Mr. Akhand on behalf of India Media Centre has submitted the suggestion before Justice Verma Committee, setup by  government to review rape laws.

He said “Chemical castration is a serious violation of Human Rights of the convict. Because the punishment involves reducing the sexual aggressiveness of a convict by injecting drugs forcefully.”

It also causes side-effects like loss of bone density, osteoporosis, reduced muscle mass, increased risk of heart diseases and behavioral problems. If offenders take hormone depressants continuously, they can get illnesses like depression, hyper cholesterol, liver damage, decreased bone density, and diabetes. For these reasons, It is barely  required sufficient clinical demonstration before it is executed, demands the petitioner in his letter to the committee.

The United States, Denmark, Poland, The Czech Republic, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Argentina carry this law, and in these countries, chemical injection is conducted on the principle of voluntary agreement. But this voluntary method may be misused by the executing officials in India. Because jail torture and custodial torture is a major concern in Indian jail and police station, the petitioner alleged.

High Expenditure:

The letter said For one injection of chemical castration the cost is more than 25 thousands rupees. Again this injection is only works for three months time. So Chemical castration is not effective compared with the enormously high costs, argues the petitioner.

Other Suggestion:

Other suggestions given by IMC to the committee are setting up fast track court for speedy and meaning full justice; more power to National women Commissione(NCW) to punish the guilty public officials responsible for delaying action against culprits in such cases and imposing ban on film scene highlighting crime against girls/women specially rape scene, informed Akhand.

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