Why many young adult women in India aren't treated as adults?
I was reading about honour kiIIing cases of India where I've found that in many cases, the parents found those girls only after the police tracked them and give them their location. As per law after 18, an adult woman in India is free to earn her own money and live on her own seperately. Then why are these police still giving them their location to the parents? They know that their parents are gonna harm them after these girls are caught but still these police are giving their parents the location or dragging them back to the parents.
These girls aren't even asking money from their parents. All they wanna do is just to escape from them but still those police are helping their abusive parents instead of helping those victims. Also those girls even aren't the daughters of those police so what would they get by controlling them? Those police aren't saving their family's so called called by doing that cuz they're strangers.
This year, a 23 year old woman died in an honour killing case after the police tracked her and brought her back to her parents. As per the reports the parents paid the police money to do that. They don't need extra money cuz they already get their salary which is enough for them. In another case, a 19 year old girl was killed by her own father after she was brought to the police station. She ran away with her boyfriend and did an intercaste marriage, which made her parents mad. In that case, also the police tracked her and made her meet her parents. She was in a different state but still they tracked her location. They knew it's not gonna end well but still they brought her back to her parents. The parents weren't even rich in this case. There are many cases like that.
There was a case where a young adult woman left her parent's home to get married with her boyfriend, whom her parents didn't approve. Then her family asked a lawyer and the lawyer suggested them to file a theft case against her. It's really sad to see that some people are misusing their power to control someone that too an adult women.
I know some western people whose parents also filed missing report on them after they left their home and those parents also made false stories like someone kidnapped their kids and falsely accused their friends or partners of kidnapping them. But when the police called them, they told them that their parents are lying and that they're safe. After that the police ignored those parents stories and told them to stop. They didn't even share their kids location to those parents. I think most Indian police should act like that cuz it will also reduce honour killing in the country.
I'm not saying that all members of the legal authorities are bad there are some good people among them too. But here I'm just talking about those corrupt legal authorities, who unfortunately are the majority.
This corrupt authorities are also part of the reason for India's low divorce rate.
Why many young adult women in India aren't treated as adults?