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Crimes against women have become common phenomena which are reported daily in our newspapers. India is passing through a very turbulent phase with regard to women security and cases of rapes, sexual assaults, acid attacks are on the hike on a daily basis. Despite of several changes in the provisions of law and criminal procedure, only few perpetrators of such heinous crime are punished, rather the victims become a accused of filing a false case because the prosecution was not able to prove the allegations beyond reasonable doubt. Due to various child rape incidents, the demand for making anti-rape laws had been more stringent. The infamous Kathua rape case and the Unnao rape case shook the conscience of the entire nation and the triggered the demand of more amendments and gave birth to The Criminal Law Amendment Act, 2018. It is need of the hour to change the thinking and mentality of people along with judicial awakening. The responsibility of protecting women should not be confined to the police authorities but it is duty of the general public also. Changes must be made not only in the laws as well as in the mindset of the people so that rape victims would no longer be victimized.