With all my might I strongly condemn the brutal
and inhuman rape committed by the 5 beastly youth on Journalist Photographer in
Mumbai 4 days back. Kudos to Mumbai Police to nab all the 5 rapists within 72
hours – 4 in Mumbai and the 5th in Delhi. By nabbing all the culprits in record
time Mumbai Police maintained its billing as the best Police Force in India.
Earlier in early Seventies, Bombay Police
had created a history by capturing the dreaded criminal Raman Raghao who was
considered as the most difficult criminal to nab but Bombay Police within a
short period succeeded in arresting him alive thus giving peaceful sleep to
Bombayites. During those few days Raman Raghao had created such a fear in
Bombay that some people were even afraid to sleep at home because he was known
to enter your house as invisible, kill a woman breastfeeding her infant child,
then suck her breast and disappear from the scene as invisible only.
‘RAPE IS NOT AN END OF LIFE’, stated the rape
victim from the Hospital bed in Mumbai where at Jaslok Hospital she is
recuperating. Very courageous statement
it is and very encouraging for similar victims and society as a whole. It is a fitting answer for all the rape
victims not to retire into oblivion after they are raped. Rape victims require support and
encouragement to carry on with their life as usual without pointing a finger to
them that they are downcast. Even the
young boys should voluntarily come forward to marry such girls because they
have done no wrong, it is the rapists who should be condemned.
In rape there is
no sexual pleasure for the victim but only a torturing and physical harm for
her body. Rape is an unconsensual sex forced on the victim by the physical
might of the culprit and as such the victim deserves sympathy, support and
acceptance in its fold as normal person by the society.
Since rape in India is a routine occurrence, the authorities
neglect it as normal happening needing no remedial measures to stop it from
further occurring. Our political leaders since many of them are a party to this
crime and since their daughters and other family members are not subjected to
this crime, they refrain from enacting stringent laws to punish the
rapists. They see silently everything and
yet pretend to be sleeping but once their daughters are raped then only they
will wake up from their sleep to enact harsh laws as existed in some Islamic
countries.
After the last big raping scandal in Delhi in December,
numerous people came on to the streets demanding capital punishment for the
rapists and fast track judgement. To
silence the voice temporarily of the vociferous demonstrators, government
promised remedial laws to prevent and stop raping in India. However, to my utter disgust government is
still sleeping and will go on sleeping further because government has no wish
to enact laws for harsh punishment. Thru this lethargy of government’s
inaction, government is encouraging rape in India.
In view of this, I feel some body must come
forward to ‘Bell the Cat’, and who will be that somebody? According to me it will be the Mumbai rape
victim – Photo Journalist – who should after her discharge from the hospital
conduct a ‘A Sit In Strike ‘ at the strategic location in Mumbai to put
pressure on government of India to enact stringent laws to punish the future
rapists. Since time is very ripe now for this action because of public
sympathy, she has to "hit the Iron when it is hot". To take this action she is in a better
position and all her supporters will surely join her in this move. Social activists in Mumbai can encourage her
to take this action and lend her all the required support. This is what I suggest.
Besides, in the coming general election,
electorate in India
must put a heavy pressure on all the political parties to add this point in
their election manifestos giving top priority for this point. This point must
be made an election issue in 2014 general election.
A.Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait.
