On evening of 26th of May, in a village in Badaun district, two teenaged girls were allegedly raped and hanged from the tree. Both of them went out to relieve themselves in fields as the locality donot have toilets. Heinous and medieval is the incident and perpetrators should be equally treated, death would be the easiest punishment in this case.
India erupted. Women, men came together in condemning this barbaric incident. Media ensured it gives enough coverage to move the nation. The women groups and feminists killed all men in debates on TV and blogs and social media. Whoever asked for the investigation to be over was shunted off the society. International community joined together and expressed the ever growing security concerns for women in India. Tourist communities cancelled their trips, 100's of officials were transferred in the state, people questioned PM's silence on the case when even UN's Ban Ki Moon had expressed his shock and criticism for the incident.
3 criminals have been arrested and everyone is wishing to get a chance to have those criminals on road where we can kill them into pulp. Such should be the punishment that nobody ever dares to do such thing.
Amidst all this, my heart wished somewhere in corner, this incident didnot happen. I couldn't see increase of further distrust in women for men, I couldn't see international criticism of India, I couldn't imagine the plight of few officers, who had to be transferred among the lot, who were probably honest and committed along their career but had to fall victim of the reaction of the incident.
And then suddenly the thought came to my mind - What if there was no rape? What if the teenaged girls went to meet the lovers and made up and were caught by parents and then hanged to death? (Apparently today , the seniormost police official of the state expressed a possibility of only one girl being raped and other as bystander. He proposed honour killing as one of the least possibility) The psychology of criminology would actually term it rarest that 3 rapists raped and then hanged two girls. The hanging of the victims is really suspicious and that too after hanging them the rapists went home and slept? They were apparently picked up and arrested from their homes next day.
Nonetheless, what if the least possibility comes true after investigation? We have all jumped on conclusion on the 27th May morning at the first glimpse of the TV news without leaving any chance for investigation. The MOB factor. The mob factor not only put pressure on the whole system but also influenced lots of irreversible undesirable actions on many lives and image of a country. The Nirbhaya case of Delhi has been splendidly handled by Indian Justice system and all the guilty has been punished to death. I wonder, if the mob factor will really resolve our issues with women's security. The mob only erupts when crime is heinous and shocking. But before reacting, establishing of the facts are equally important. The mob was less vociferous for honor killing cases where couples were killed by communities across the villages in Haryana.
Alright, so if this turns out to be a fake case, meaning if this turns out to be a honor killing, would the mob apologize to the alleged 3 criminals who probably would never be able to walk in public again, would Ban ki Moon revert his statement, would women trust a little more on men, would the social critics eat their words and the most important, would India be considered a little more safe than existing perception in International community?
But again..irrespective of what the actual story turns out to be, I am saddened to even think that 2 teenaged girls were HANGED from tree, irrespective of whatever happened before that. Barbaric and medieval to say the least...
India erupted. Women, men came together in condemning this barbaric incident. Media ensured it gives enough coverage to move the nation. The women groups and feminists killed all men in debates on TV and blogs and social media. Whoever asked for the investigation to be over was shunted off the society. International community joined together and expressed the ever growing security concerns for women in India. Tourist communities cancelled their trips, 100's of officials were transferred in the state, people questioned PM's silence on the case when even UN's Ban Ki Moon had expressed his shock and criticism for the incident.
3 criminals have been arrested and everyone is wishing to get a chance to have those criminals on road where we can kill them into pulp. Such should be the punishment that nobody ever dares to do such thing.
Amidst all this, my heart wished somewhere in corner, this incident didnot happen. I couldn't see increase of further distrust in women for men, I couldn't see international criticism of India, I couldn't imagine the plight of few officers, who had to be transferred among the lot, who were probably honest and committed along their career but had to fall victim of the reaction of the incident.
And then suddenly the thought came to my mind - What if there was no rape? What if the teenaged girls went to meet the lovers and made up and were caught by parents and then hanged to death? (Apparently today , the seniormost police official of the state expressed a possibility of only one girl being raped and other as bystander. He proposed honour killing as one of the least possibility) The psychology of criminology would actually term it rarest that 3 rapists raped and then hanged two girls. The hanging of the victims is really suspicious and that too after hanging them the rapists went home and slept? They were apparently picked up and arrested from their homes next day.
Nonetheless, what if the least possibility comes true after investigation? We have all jumped on conclusion on the 27th May morning at the first glimpse of the TV news without leaving any chance for investigation. The MOB factor. The mob factor not only put pressure on the whole system but also influenced lots of irreversible undesirable actions on many lives and image of a country. The Nirbhaya case of Delhi has been splendidly handled by Indian Justice system and all the guilty has been punished to death. I wonder, if the mob factor will really resolve our issues with women's security. The mob only erupts when crime is heinous and shocking. But before reacting, establishing of the facts are equally important. The mob was less vociferous for honor killing cases where couples were killed by communities across the villages in Haryana.
Alright, so if this turns out to be a fake case, meaning if this turns out to be a honor killing, would the mob apologize to the alleged 3 criminals who probably would never be able to walk in public again, would Ban ki Moon revert his statement, would women trust a little more on men, would the social critics eat their words and the most important, would India be considered a little more safe than existing perception in International community?
But again..irrespective of what the actual story turns out to be, I am saddened to even think that 2 teenaged girls were HANGED from tree, irrespective of whatever happened before that. Barbaric and medieval to say the least...
..Atlast...I have been vindicated...rather my belief in Indian and Indianness has been vindicated. CBI has deciphered the Badaun rape case and have given a clean chit to the arrested guys confirming that the girls did a suicide by hanging themselves from a tree after being ashamed of seen during the consensual act out in the open by their uncle.
ReplyDeleteNow..what about the mudslinging we all did towards India and particularly men of India. Remembering UN's Ban Ki Moon criticizing how unsafe India is. Remember few women ready to castrate every Indian man in the disgust of the incident. Remember vociferous criticism of govts, police, and almost everything to do with India. Could someone apologize and assure us that next time we will be more rational. Atleast we will not let our biasedness come to forefront when we are dealing with society and country. Else we loose credibility....credibility of a knowledgeable young diaspora of India. Else we loose our pride and in doing so we are selling India as medieval ....which is far from truth. I actually think we have done better than most developed countries in terms of social democracy and rights of population to say the least.....Jai Hind.
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