Defining Moment
What is it with some men?? What gets into them when they commit terrible,heinous crimes.The media is abuzz with stories of Priyadarshini Matoo,Jessica lal,Katara... Priyadarshini matoo,23 yearlaw student,raped and murdered.How does that sound?? Any other casethat would add onto the backlogs.Perhaps yes.Well,Her killer is nocriminal but a law student and son of a senior police officer.This isa tale of unrequited love and the anger it brought hardened intobitterness, revenge and retaliation.The victim was stalked and whenpolice intervened,he promised to stay away and not harass heragain.But his intentions were far from that.He devised a plan andexecuted it rather successfully.He found her alone at herresidence,raped and brutally murdered her.He battered her face beyond recignition.The authorities had to conceal this act of brutality and eventually he was acquitted.Now he is afamous lawyer,father of a 2 year old and a respected person in thesociety.All this only until yesterday,when he was found guilty of rapeand murder and is finally sentenced to death.A defining moment for theMatoo family.Not quite..once lost is lost for ever.
Jessica lal case is yet another heart wrenching story.Angst of anadolscent deprives a happy family of its lovely daughter.Followingwhich the mother dies of heart attack and father slips intodepression.Sole fighter is a sister who is bent on getting justice forher family.Unfortunately,this is a high profile case where the killeris the son of a MP.But she still awaits justice and has immense faith in judiciary.As one of the news channels pointed out,the problem is not with the judiciary,but with the prosecution system,lets hopesomething concrete results this time around for the lal family.
The above mentioned are just two of the innumerable cases of woman harrasment and killing.Woman is the weaker sex and i cannot refute that.Phyical and verbal abuse is so common that the numbers would exceed the population of India.I have been through so many of it myself.While at college,guys would gang up and pass crass comments on every girl who would passby.They are basically driven by frenzy and badly reasoned belief that their action does not allow questioning or scrutiny and their only motive is to exercise their dominance on the weaker sex.I pity these troubled souls and pray for their deterioration much like Santosh Singh's(Matoo's murderer).A moments fun can bring in so much misery and pain to the families of both the victim and the murderer.Why cannot men exercise restraint and behave like responsible citizens.Not all men are bad,and the bad ones can learn lessons from the good.For men like santhos singh and his ilk,death is the best punishment,or if something more painful than death can ever happen,i would suggest that.
At the Crossroads
What is it with some men?? What gets into them when they commit terrible,heinous crimes.The media is abuzz with stories of Priyadarshini Matoo,Jessica lal,Katara... Priyadarshini matoo,23 yearlaw student,raped and murdered.How does that sound?? Any other casethat would add onto the backlogs.Perhaps yes.Well,Her killer is nocriminal but a law student and son of a senior police officer.This isa tale of unrequited love and the anger it brought hardened intobitterness, revenge and retaliation.The victim was stalked and whenpolice intervened,he promised to stay away and not harass heragain.But his intentions were far from that.He devised a plan andexecuted it rather successfully.He found her alone at herresidence,raped and brutally murdered her.He battered her face beyond recignition.The authorities had to conceal this act of brutality and eventually he was acquitted.Now he is afamous lawyer,father of a 2 year old and a respected person in thesociety.All this only until yesterday,when he was found guilty of rapeand murder and is finally sentenced to death.A defining moment for theMatoo family.Not quite..once lost is lost for ever.
Jessica lal case is yet another heart wrenching story.Angst of anadolscent deprives a happy family of its lovely daughter.Followingwhich the mother dies of heart attack and father slips intodepression.Sole fighter is a sister who is bent on getting justice forher family.Unfortunately,this is a high profile case where the killeris the son of a MP.But she still awaits justice and has immense faith in judiciary.As one of the news channels pointed out,the problem is not with the judiciary,but with the prosecution system,lets hopesomething concrete results this time around for the lal family.
The above mentioned are just two of the innumerable cases of woman harrasment and killing.Woman is the weaker sex and i cannot refute that.Phyical and verbal abuse is so common that the numbers would exceed the population of India.I have been through so many of it myself.While at college,guys would gang up and pass crass comments on every girl who would passby.They are basically driven by frenzy and badly reasoned belief that their action does not allow questioning or scrutiny and their only motive is to exercise their dominance on the weaker sex.I pity these troubled souls and pray for their deterioration much like Santosh Singh's(Matoo's murderer).A moments fun can bring in so much misery and pain to the families of both the victim and the murderer.Why cannot men exercise restraint and behave like responsible citizens.Not all men are bad,and the bad ones can learn lessons from the good.For men like santhos singh and his ilk,death is the best punishment,or if something more painful than death can ever happen,i would suggest that.
At the Crossroads
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