NGO stands for Non- Governmental organization. NGOs work for the welfare of society through engaging in various sorts of activities such as providing food, clothes, medicines, knowledge and education, employment opportunities and so on. NGOs are needed for the development of any society. It’s necessary for the development of people, in all spheres.
But nowadays many of such organizations are involved in wrong practices for their own personal benefits. According to reports many of the NGOs formed to protect women are forcing them to file false cases.
A NGO named ‘Delhi Commission of India’ pressurized a woman to file a false rape case. In this case Additional Sessions Judge Arun Grover Baliga gave the advice to the women’s rights body when an alleged rape victim in her deposition before the court said that “she had mentioned the allegations of rape in her complaint to the police only on the advice of the NGO counselor at Sarojini Nagar police station”.
While acquitting an accused in a rape case, a court here suggested that the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) adequately train its counselors posted at police stations to provide support to rape victims and not to advise them to lodge false rape cases.
In another such case a NGO tortured a woman and told her to falsely depose that she had been raped by her employer, a businessman.
In this case the Additional Sessions Judge Nivedita Anil Sharma on acquitted the businessman — a Punjabi Bagh resident — of the charge of rape.
In this case a businessman (charged for rape) had been granted bail to conduct the last rites of his mother, after spending 72 days in jail. The NGO had filed an application seeking the cancellation of bail.
The court dismissed the application and noted that the NGO had no locus standi to file a petition regarding the bail of an accused.
During arguments, the court found that the woman, who was sent to the Nirmal Chhaya women\’s home, had written to superintendent of Nirmal Chhaya and that her employer had not raped her.
The prosecution had chargesheeted the businessman for rape and under the anti-human trafficking and anti-bonded labour laws.
However, the woman testified before the court that she had made false allegations after the NGO worker had told her that she would receive a lot of money if she filed a complaint of rape against her employer.
Not just these two cases but there are large number of cases where Women NGO forces the woman to file a false rape case. Such practices are promoting false rape culture which can be proved very harmful for the men in the society. These false rape cases impacts the accused life drastically, as soon as the woman registers her complaint to the police, the accused found himself caught up in the system and the society starts branding him as a rapist without even considering the judgment or evidence.
After the infamous 2012 gang rape of a student on a bus in Delhi, the number of rape cases reported to police in India rose sharply. But one survey concluded that in Delhi, in 2013-14, more than half of these reports were \”false\”; NGOs and women are alleging rape in order to extort money from men and thus driving false rape culture.