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Girl Child & Prowling Predators


Sometime, scribbling remonstrance to express reproach against even the ghastliest incident is much harder than one can think. A melange of grief, pain and abhorrence created a veil on my inner feeling, so much so, that whenever I tried to pen down my thoughts against the Kathua rape and murder, all of my emotions got jumbled up & disarrayed me completely. Even the word barbaric will get ashamed of the act of those creatures (I am consciously using the word ‘creature’ instead of human), who have done such diabolical act. Atrocities against girl child and women are serious cause of concern for our society, but the most alarming fact is the increasing brutality which is getting associated with these kinds of incidents.

 

2012 Delhi ‘Nirbhaya’ incident shock the nation with its nature of brutality, where even a juvenile was part of the crime. The convicts got their due punishment and the laws were made more stringent to keep leash on such incidents, but record reveals that things are not getting ameliorated. 

 

Post ‘Nirbhaya’ incident, there are cases which hit nationwide attention due to their brutal nature, such as Shakti Mill gang rape (Mumbai, 2013), Uttar Pradesh gang rape (2014) where two girls of aged  14 & 16 were raped and murdered,  Ranaghat, West Bengal gang rape (2015) where a 71 year old nun did not get respite and she was brutally murdered after rape and  in 2016,  Delta Meghawal, a 17 year old dalit girl, who found raped & murdered in her hostel at Bikaner. Having said that, the actual gross number of rape cases during this period is disturbingly higher and according to reports the number of rape cases which does not get recorded is even higher.

 

Kathua gruesome incident is once again showing us that no matter how India is progressing towards digitisation, we are still in the primeval age. A minor of merely 8 years, a flower waiting for blooming has been pulverized. A child who should have been flying around the beautiful Kashmir valley has been crushed with utter ruthlessness. It gives even more pain when we learn, that those responsible for the girls fate, took the veil of religion against her to fulfil their heinous motive.

 

No matter how vehemently we protest or show solidarity to the bereaved family, the girl cannot be brought back. But that should not stop us from doing our deeds for seeking justice for the girl & her bereaved family while perpetrators’ get punished as per law of the land.  After lot of dawdle, local administration has started investigating the incident.

 

However, with utter dismay we have witnessed that a part of the administration is backing and supporting the perpetrators and trying to concoct misleading stories to suppress the truth and trivialize it.  Protests and processions against the victim & her family being orchestrate shamelessly.  Making the whole issue even worse, a section of people backed by a certain political party has also tried to communalise the whole issue and presented to the world.   As a responsible citizen we feel aghast & ashamed that in our so called ‘DIGITAL INDIA’, when we brag about India’s progress towards pinnacle, how despicably a section of our fellow citizens and statesmen are acting on an issue which demands unequivocal solidarity to the victim and her family.

 

Thankfully, good sense is prevailing and we expect judiciary to act stringently in order to setting exemplary punishment and instil fear for any future contemplation of such crime.


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