Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles This tree is a symbol off India's broken justice system, where Rip is rarely punished. This man found his teenage daughter and her cousin hanging from it. I met him in 2014. He told me his girls had been raped and murdered. He wanted to see the accused hanged in public. It was the first big case after the Delhi gang rape of 2012, when tougher rape laws were introduced. They were meant to make it easier for women and girls to register complaints with the police. The death penalty for rape was introduced on special fast track court set up. But for the battalion family, it has been a slow on difficult journey. Over the years, the papers have piled up. First, the investigators said they didn't have enough evidence to prove rape and murder, so the suspects were set free. The family challenged this and got the case reopened, but charges have been reduced to just molestation and kidnap. The law says that cases should be heard quickly, but the courts are deaf to our pleas. I've been doing the rounds of courts, but the poor hardly ever get justice for the mother. It's a battle that's gone on too long. I just hope we're still alive to see justice being done. Dancing is the lawyer representing the body, you family? The case is being heard in a fast track court, but they can't power through a system creaking at the seams. Could be could be evidence. Just say I'm Dr Transfer someone time. We don't have any, but government figures bear this out. There were 95,000 pending rape cases at the end of 2000 and 13. This had risen to 145,000 by the end of 2000 and 19. Some question the point off the laws. I think these are hollow populist measures where they're trying to quell that public outrage that has happened around that particular incident. The legal mechanisms for enforcing these laws are not changed now sentencing punishment. It comes at the very end off a criminal justice a t end of the trial and before that, both the victim and the accused. They have to go through a lot of processes. But some parents are abusing the law to punish their daughters. They're filing false rape cases on causing untold suffering. We're calling this woman Russia. When I told my lover that my parents did not approve off our match, we had to a lope, but my father found me and brought me back. He beat me up with a rope and sticks, starved me and then sold me off to another man. Russia was 17 at the time. She ran away again, fell pregnant and got married to her lover. But legal reforms had raised the age of consent from 16 to 18 years. She was considered unable to give consent on her. Parents were ableto accuse her lover off rape, getting him on his family thrown in jail. I was accused of conspiring with my son to kidnap her. I spent two weeks in jail. Her family then ransacked our house, broke the door and took away our animals. We had to go into hiding to save our lives. Seema is from a non governmental organization called Anandhi. They helped Russia get her husband's family out on bail. Their support also meant Russia could stand up to her parents. When I turned 18, I filed a case of trafficking against my own father. If young women could marry men off their choice. The world would be a much happier place. Many parents want to control their girls. Abuse of the law is widespread in this district in the western state of Petra and Rocky fired after the 95% of fires parents know karate toe. So I got my name is, uh my name is Yeah, I kicked off from the heat Jaar. Uh but but it's almost like you people like shooting. He was tutoring. They catch a time. Okay. There are no figures for how many false cases go to court. Lawyers say they have strong anecdotal evidence. It highlights a deeper problem which no law can change In all walks of life, we see that women are at an unequal position. They have less access to resource is with education with healthcare on. Therefore, in some ways, therefore they become lesser citizens. So even when you speak about casting equality, it's Dalit women who are more marginalized than their lit men. These Dalit activists want to break the shackles of their oppression. Manisha and her sister are lawyers. They're helping daily trips. Survivors become lawyers too. Dalits are at the bottom off the Hindu caste hierarchy like this woman we're calling Maya earlier, I would keep crying. As I recall those horrific memories, I built the confidence to speak up and stay positive only after I came here. I then decided to study law so I can fight for dull with women like me who are forced to keep quiet about atrocities. Ah, lot of pain and anger hides behind that resolve. Maya was harassed for weeks by an upper caste man. He then raped her. She filed a complaint but was forced to withdraw it after he married her. Her family said it would save her from the social stigma off being a rape victim. But the marriage was held off a different kind. My husband's family would say You're a dull it like a dirty drain. We hate to even look at you. He would come home drunk and abused me for filing a police case against him. He would beat me and forced me to perform unnatural sexual acts. Even when I refused, I didn't know what to do. I even thought off committing suicide. Sit down. Manisha helped Maya reopen her old trip complaint, adding the charge of unnatural sexual acts. Manisha knows It's dangerous work, but is driven by love for her people. Yeah, the little money, lion. Quick, Objective data for cash flow dictated so easily on Komodo. Jesse Jackson, huge car sector chores actor or Jobe McGill. I wanna go look tacky is attached. Kill up a value, get a modern cardia economic status. Sarah Katima Jagga, Uncle Bocaranda Parada or a conniving police persons. 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