Some incidents shake the conscience of every single individual aware of the matter. So, what are these incidents and what do they provide us with? These incidents are of heinous crimes that are committed on a day-to-day basis. Do they give us just grief? No! These unfortunate incidents provide us with an opportunity to educate the masses about the looming threat. But are we putting the incidents to use?
Bombay HC grants bail to a boy booked for gangraping a minor
Justice Bharti Dangre of the Bombay High Court recently granted bail to a juvenile gangrape accused citing that the accused boy has responded positively to the rehabilitative efforts and that a child in conflict deserves to be reunited with his family.
Justice Dangre, advocating for the education of the child, the accused, who has now turned into an adult, cannot be further discontinued. The court referred to the provisions of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015, and observed that the applicant should get benefit of being released on bail despite the Juvenile Justice Board and a special court having rejected his pleas thrice.
The case is, however, so grave that it has the potential to leave the readers in tatters. A minor girl was gang-raped by five adults and the applicants, and the incident was revealed when the girl narrated the entire incident to her parents.
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The humanitarian view towards rapists and the repercussions
Rape is one of the most heinous crimes any human can commit upon someone. However, the courts of India have shut their eyes to the heinosity and instead of hanging the convicts, are busy practising ‘Humanitarian’ gestures towards the rapists.
The Bombay High Court setting free a rapist is not a lone incident. The Gujarat government recently released the convicts of Bilkis Bano gangrape case. Earlier, in April this year, the Supreme Court of India had commuted the death sentence of a man named Mohd. Firoz, convicted of raping and killing a 4-year-old. A special court had also granted bail to main accused in the Jubliee Hills case that involved gangrape of a minor girl in Hyderabad.
Human rights or a cover for criminals
The reason often cited by the law enforcement agencies involved is that the convict or accused has a whole life to live and the goal of punishment is reform and not to lodge someone in jail for his or her entire lifetime.
No doubt, every human being deserves an opportunity to become a better individual and be a part of the society once again. This is what the law believes. It considers every human to be divine and believes that everyone deserves an opportunity to correct his or her past sins. However, in the practical world this doesn’t stands true. If it would have been the case, then the accused or convict must have committed no crimes while they were out on bail. But hundreds of arrests have been made as prisoners returned to crime while they were out on bail.
Be it any committee or court of law, it cannot guarantee a change of heart of a convict as we are just animal species finding ways to cut through an existential crisis. And barbarism is an innate nature of the human psyche.
The transition from Nirbhaya to today
A girl was mercilessly gangraped and tortured in a moving bus in country’s capital in 2012. The Nirbhaya incident shook the conscience of the nation. Everyone was on the streets demanding the arrest of the monsters and death sentence to pronounced for them. We have heard of many Nirbhayas since then who have paid the price of being a woman. No matter the age, an 8 months new-born to a 80 year old woman being raped, we have heard it all. And now it seems that India and its people have quietly turned their head and have decided to not look at the bad side of it all.
In Delhi winters, mass protests were held and people faced everything from lathis of the brutal Congress regime to water cannons. But today, where are we, how much we have progressed? Rather, I should say that we have progressed backwards, to a time where females are being denied both life with dignity as well as dignity in death.
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