1. INTRODUCTION:

What does a woman want? To lead a simple, honest healthy life. To pursue livelihoods that brings in enough to live. To have friends and family and access to good clean food and clothes, have a roof over one's head. That is what most of us have wanted and continue to want. Traditionally, an Indian woman had four fold status-role sequences. Traditionally, women role as daughter, wife, housewife and mother was well defined and fixed in the society but it is now experiencing far-reaching changes. Freedom, equality, justice and peace are all what women now want. Today’s modern women's tendency are driving towards the social issues, and making a decent attempt to improve the social position of women at large. Increased awareness and education has propelled women to come out of four barriers of the home. Many women actively supported and participated in the nationalist movement and secured eminent positions and offices in administration and public life in free India. Traditionally Indian women exist because of the family and for the family [1][2].

Decades after freedom India have seen tremendous changes in the status of women in the Indian culture. The constitution has been set down as an elementary right to the equity of genders. It is not a simple case of progress of women in this modern era as it was changed in the nineteenth century from a position of absolute degradation and suppression of women to a position of equality in the middle of the twentieth century [4].

In India, after independence, government had passed series of laws for the upliftment of women. These legislations have been implemented in order to give equal rights and privileges to men, to eliminate discriminations against women, remove inequality between sexes, and remove external barriers coming in the way of their self-realization and development [3].

2. WOMEN’S ACTS IN INDIAN CONSTITUTION

Various acts have been passed by the Indian constitution of India containing several rights and safeguards for women. Few those of them are:

1. The Hindu Marriage Act of 1955:

This Act provided equal rights to women to obtain divorce and also maintenance in certain cases.

2. The Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act of 1956:

As per the virtue of this Act a woman has rights to adopt a boy or a girl as her son or daughter.

3. The Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act of 1956:

This Act gives that a women is qualified for go about as the normal guardian of her minor kids.

4. The Hindu Succession Act of 1956:

Because of this Act, women has got equivalent rights in the legacy of family property. This Act is a milestone ever of law.5. The Hindu Women Right to Property Act of 1973:

This Act has given more facilities to women. According to this Act, the daughter, the widow, and the mother can inherit property of the deceased simultaneously. Now women will hold her property absolutely with full right to sell, mortgage, and dispose of as she desires. But according to the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, woman has only to enjoy her husband's share in coparcenaries property for her life time without any right to alienate property [10].

5. The Dowry Prohibition Act of 1961:

By virtue of this Act, taking or demanding dowry is considered as an offence and liable to be punished by imprisonment and or fines.

6. The Equal Remuneration Act of 1976:

This Act does not allow wage separation among male and female labourers.

3. VIEWS ON WOMEN’S RIGHTS:

Why is it that while there has been a legal expansion of women's rights in India, the societal trends that maintain a violent order against women have remained intact?

The most recent such pronouncement came from Ms Asha Mirje, a member of the Maharashtra State Commission for Women who stated: "Rapes take place also because of a woman's clothes, her behavior and her presence at inappropriate places." In other words, for many people in society (including many women) such a woman deserves what she gets. For Indian men the exhibit of manliness, which has in every case dangerously laid on harassing women, has now additionally turned out to be connected to breaking the laws that secure women [8].

Women are victim of Rape and sexual assault not only at homes, streets and offices, but also she is the victim during the public riots between caste and religious groups and woman's body become a site of that violence. To protect the women many laws are stated in India. In any case, none of this implies much except if law requirement organizations really actualize the law. There are comments on state capacity in India, because of difference between the presence of good laws and their real carrying out. Protesting by women’s groups for the specific law of protecting the women from domestic violence, the Domestic Violence Act 2005 was the consequence of it. Yet, even women who know of the law do not use it. And millions of women do not even know about it [9].

Even if the campaigns to inform women about their rights under the law succeed, and large numbers of Indian women come to realize that they need not accept violence in their homes, will that bring about a change in the situation? Going by current evidence, it is unlikely. Because essentially, what needs to change are the attitudes and mindsets of Indian men. Until these change, until Indian men accept women as equal human beings, deserving of the same rights and privileges as them [5][6].

The Indian government has been trying to show its support towards women and Providing a secure environment for women where there are free in 21^st century. The Union Budget provides for financial assistance, dedicated banks and more. These are necessary and laudable steps. Regardless of how economically independent the educated, urban woman becomes or how hard rural outreach programs work at improving feminine hygiene and maternal care, the narrative always meanders back to safety or the lack of it [7].

3.1 Lokmanya’s View on Women’s Right:

Lokmanya Tilak personally opposed to early marriage, but also he was against the 1891 Age of Consent bill, which rose the age of a girl from 10 to 12 years for marriage. Tilak sees as interference with freedom movement and vigorously protested by saying we would not like that the British government should have anything to do with our social customs or ways of living even supposing the act will be very beneficial and suitable" ; Tilak wanted social reforms by conscious consent of the society and not by British law. Tilak himself got his daughters married at the correct age. He believed that laws alone do not change the attitude of the society.

4. DATA ANALYSIS ON CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN IN INDIA:

As per the analysis of data taken from Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India related to crimes happening against women in different states of India, it explore that how in India crime rate against women is high. This analysis shows state-wise crimes across India. Which states are the heavy weights in crimes? Who is the undisputed champion of rapes in a year? Which state excels in cruelty by husbands and the relatives to wives? Which state leads in dowry deaths?

The data in OGD is available for crimes against women in different states under different ‘crime heads’ like rape, dowry deaths, kidnapping & abduction etc. The data is available for years from 2013 to 2018 [11].

4.1 Projected Numbers of Rapes in India:

The top 3 heavy weights in projected rapes over the next 5 years are 1) Madhya Pradesh 2) Uttar Pradesh 3) Maharashtra.

Table 1: State-Wise Projected Numbers of Rapes in India-Highest Incidence

Rank	State	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
1.	Madhya Pradesh	4730.44	4832.02	4933.6	5035.18	5136.76	5238.34
2.	Uttar Pradesh	3382.26	3529.39	3676.52	3823.65	3970.78	4117.9
3.	Maharashtra	2511.76	2570	2628.25	2686.49	2744.74	2802.98
4.	West Bengal	2309.88	2386.16	2462.43	2538.71	2614.98	2691.26
5.	Assam	1753.44	1813.52	1873.6	1933.68	1993.76	2053.84
6.	Andhra Pradesh	1777.17	1825.17	1873.17	1921.17	1969.17	2017.17
7.	Rajasthan	1662.24	1728.31	1794.37	1860.43	1926.49	1992.56
8.	Odisha	1461.95	1523.37	1584.79	1646.2	1707.62	1769.03
9.	Kerala	1022.76	1070.12	1117.48	1164.84	1212.2	1259.56
10.	Chattisgrah	1210.64	1218.93	1227.22	1235.51	1243.8	1252.09