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Fast courts, swift justice, quick punishment

June 14, 2009 posted by indiatime |

Last Friday morning, a minor girl was kidnapped, gangraped and filmed by a group of youths, and the face of of Surat city turned red with anger. The anger was further heightened by the fact that the two of the accused were sons of the local policemen.

While the local activists and social organizations demanded swift and exemplary punishment and a fast track hearing of the case, some semblance of justice did come when an angry mob attacked two of the defendants as they were being taken for a medical checkup. Several men and women punched and kicked the defendants as they curled up on the floor.


But the mob justice didn’t last half as long as the girl’s gang rape which had gone on for over an hour and fifteen minutes. The seething anger hadn’t let off yet, but the police escorting the defendants threatened to fire at the angry mob, and the mob dispersed.

I want to congratulate those courageous men and women who, in the face of police brandishing weapons, broke the security bubble, attacked the suspects and beat the crap out of them. I especially want to congratulate the big woman in the saree, mightily kicking the the defendant’s behind. For that one instant, and at least to me, she looked like the Rani Laxmibai of Jhansi, the legendary freedom fighter, with a sword in her hand, majestically riding her horse in the thick of the battle. That, is the kind of vigilance and woman power we will need to vanquish the garbage that has riddled our communities.


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  1. Vinoy on June 14, 2009 3:57 pm

    Tell you another story of what the Indian police are capable of doing.It was reported in the press and shown on TV that a policeman,an officer-incharge of a police station in Ranchi,Jharkhand
    , an eastern Indian state apparently shot dead one Ashok Jaiswal,an auto driver and father of four minor children in the premises of the very police station he was posted.Ashok had gone for the release of a commercial vehicle seized by the police who demanded a few thousand rupees for that.During the wordy duel, the police officer got angry and shot him dead but took refuge behind the plea that it was an accident because at that time he was ‘cleaning’the gun and the bullet was fired accidently.So he has not been charged for murder under section 302 of IPC.Instead a case has been registered under section 304(unintentional killing).The police officer has not been arrested despite public demand and is walking scot-free!

    And the saddest part of he story is that a ‘compromise’was reached between the aggrieved family and the district police through the ‘good offices’ of the higher police officers and some politicians including the local MLA to provide monetary compensation(amounting to Rs 2,50,000) to the poor family of the deceased.The widow is reported to have accepted the compromise formula saying that she is too poor to fight a legal battle in a court of law because of abject poverty in which she has been living.Obviously, the case will never reach the court and the guilty will be fully protected.

    This is the real India of the 21st century, indiatime!

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