Do films or then more specifically the antics of heroes on the silver screen influence gullible and impressionable minds to the extent that they set out to impersonate or re enact the deeds committed by their demi god on screen without either pausing to ponder over either the consequences or end result of their actions........
The answer to the above question is certainly a resounding yes if the following instance is regarded as the bench mark: A sixth standard student residing in Andhra Pradesh's Nellore district hired a taxi and slit the throat of the trusting and unsuspecting taxi driver as he saw the hero in a Telugu film doing the same......
This class six student had recently seen matinee idol Prabhas enact nearly the same scene in his recent blockbuster "Rebel" and was obsessed with the idea of replicating the same no matter what according to sources in the know of things.......
Lo and behold, this young and impressionable boy plans his actions down to the nearest second, boards his school bus as per his daily routine, gets down half way or then alights from the bus on the pretext of visiting a nearby temple in order to invoke the divine blessings of the presiding deity........
He conveniently leaves his school bag behind in the very same school bus but does not forget to purchase a shaving blade like the one used by hairdressers to shave their customers from the adjoining market......
His next step in an intricately charted out web is to proceed to a travel agent's premises in Gudur and hire a taxi by promising and reassuring the travel agent that his parents would more than willingly dole out all the applicable charges and levies.....
Once he has the said taxi and taxi driver at his beck and call, this devious minded boy then leads the hapless taxi driver a merry dance through twisting and turning lanes and bylanes and after a suitable interval alights from the taxi when the taxi driver begins questioning him about the whereabouts of his parents supposedly broken down vehicle.......
As per his already charted out schedule and devious plan he then purports to pull out the razor or shaving blade and threaten the taxi driver with dire consequences if he does not do the disappearing act and stop pestering him for the applicable fare.......
A slit throat is the end result of the altercation between the taxi driver and this supposedly young, innocent and impressionable lad; alert passersby who noticed this young lad attack the driver, rushed the copiously bleeding driver to a nearby hospital and also handed over the assailant to police officials from the nearest police station......
The drivers is not on the critical list and is well on the road to recovery as the boy was not able to muster up the required force to inflict a life threatening injury and the young criminal mastermind has since been shifted to the nearest juvenile home as required by the tenets of the laws applicable to this case..........
Which brings us back to the moot question why the boy who possesses the dexterity and maturity of mind to plot, plan and carry out such a devious and life threatening act all on his own should not be sentenced as per the laws applicable to adults in the same instance........
As is their wont, bleeding hearts and self styled juvenile rights activists are out in full force and crying themselves hoarse asking for the boy to be tried under the juvenile justice act.........
All one would like to ask these bleeding hearts and self styled activists is whether the assailants are the only one's with rights or then do the hapless victims of these criminal masterminds have some rights too; one fails to understand the rationale behind the argument that this supposedly young and impressionable mind is mature enough to plot, plan, execute and purport this devious and seemingly life threatening act but not mature enough to bear the consequences of his actions.......
For sanity's sake and the prevalence of rule of law cut out the hypocrisy and dyed in wool antics and do let saner and far more rational minds prevail in this instance at least.........
The answer to the above question is certainly a resounding yes if the following instance is regarded as the bench mark: A sixth standard student residing in Andhra Pradesh's Nellore district hired a taxi and slit the throat of the trusting and unsuspecting taxi driver as he saw the hero in a Telugu film doing the same......
This class six student had recently seen matinee idol Prabhas enact nearly the same scene in his recent blockbuster "Rebel" and was obsessed with the idea of replicating the same no matter what according to sources in the know of things.......
Lo and behold, this young and impressionable boy plans his actions down to the nearest second, boards his school bus as per his daily routine, gets down half way or then alights from the bus on the pretext of visiting a nearby temple in order to invoke the divine blessings of the presiding deity........
He conveniently leaves his school bag behind in the very same school bus but does not forget to purchase a shaving blade like the one used by hairdressers to shave their customers from the adjoining market......
His next step in an intricately charted out web is to proceed to a travel agent's premises in Gudur and hire a taxi by promising and reassuring the travel agent that his parents would more than willingly dole out all the applicable charges and levies.....
Once he has the said taxi and taxi driver at his beck and call, this devious minded boy then leads the hapless taxi driver a merry dance through twisting and turning lanes and bylanes and after a suitable interval alights from the taxi when the taxi driver begins questioning him about the whereabouts of his parents supposedly broken down vehicle.......
As per his already charted out schedule and devious plan he then purports to pull out the razor or shaving blade and threaten the taxi driver with dire consequences if he does not do the disappearing act and stop pestering him for the applicable fare.......
A slit throat is the end result of the altercation between the taxi driver and this supposedly young, innocent and impressionable lad; alert passersby who noticed this young lad attack the driver, rushed the copiously bleeding driver to a nearby hospital and also handed over the assailant to police officials from the nearest police station......
The drivers is not on the critical list and is well on the road to recovery as the boy was not able to muster up the required force to inflict a life threatening injury and the young criminal mastermind has since been shifted to the nearest juvenile home as required by the tenets of the laws applicable to this case..........
Which brings us back to the moot question why the boy who possesses the dexterity and maturity of mind to plot, plan and carry out such a devious and life threatening act all on his own should not be sentenced as per the laws applicable to adults in the same instance........
As is their wont, bleeding hearts and self styled juvenile rights activists are out in full force and crying themselves hoarse asking for the boy to be tried under the juvenile justice act.........
All one would like to ask these bleeding hearts and self styled activists is whether the assailants are the only one's with rights or then do the hapless victims of these criminal masterminds have some rights too; one fails to understand the rationale behind the argument that this supposedly young and impressionable mind is mature enough to plot, plan, execute and purport this devious and seemingly life threatening act but not mature enough to bear the consequences of his actions.......
For sanity's sake and the prevalence of rule of law cut out the hypocrisy and dyed in wool antics and do let saner and far more rational minds prevail in this instance at least.........
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