In the current scerio, though women are being gradually showered with honour and their importance of the meaningful role they play in the society is recognized, still some of the cruel practices thrive in the society. In spite of the legislative measures adopted in favour of women in our society after Independence, the spread of education and women’s gradual economic independence, countless women still continue to be victims of violence and extreme cruelty. Crimes like acid throwing, dowry killings, child marriage, domestic violence, and female infanticide, honor killings, accusations of witchcraft, rape, sexual harassment, trafficking etc are most relevant, and out of those, rapes are statistically in the higher range of the graph.