Over the years, crimes against women have seen a sharp rise. Keeping the concern in mind, the Madras High Court express apprehension over rise in incidents of spurned lovers attacking women in a brutal manner. The Court observed that refusal to marry does not give man the right to stab them.
Justice N Anand Venkatesh said this trend was on the rise and it was high time that courts put down their foot and bring some sanity in society.
"These incidents continue to happen because man thinks that a woman is a chattel and she has to concede to whatever a man demands. This attitude has to be changed and no man has any right to compel any girl to fall in love with him or to marry him," the judge said.
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Another judge directed prison authorities to provide counselling to the accused and bring them to normalcy.
The order was passed by the judge on a bail application moved a man who was arrested for stabbing his girlfriend who refused to marry him.?
"This is yet another case where the lover of the victim girl has attacked in a brutal manner with knife on her refusing to marry him.
"Incidents of this nature are continuing to happen on a daily basis and it has reached monstrous proportions where man seem to think that the girl has to concede to their request for love/marriage and on refusal to do so, they take the extreme step of brutally attacking girls and had also gone to the extent of setting them to fire," the court said.