Just days after the gang rape of a helpless 5 year old in the rape capital of the world, comes yet another equally heart rending, shocking and dastardly incident of a 6 year old girl being gang raped in a public toilet in the national capital's Badarpur area.......
This shameful and deplorable incident took place in the late evening in a public toilet in the Badarpur area that enjoins the national capital region with Faridabad in the neighbouring state of Haryana........
According to the victims uncle they were informed of this dastardly act and heart rending development by a passerby who happened to know the family; the girl was found in a battered condition with copious bleeding from her vaginal and rectum area as well as her throat that was crudely slit by her assailants in an effort to effectively silence her for eternity......
The grievously injured young girl was immediately rushed to the capital's premier medical care institution namely the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and a series of surgeries have been performed on her ever since her admission to the hospital.......
Her medical condition is slated to be stable yet critical and she continues to bravely battle for her life in the intensive care unit of the very same hospital; one assailant namely the contractor who runs and manages the public toilet on a daily basis has been apprehended thus far while the other assailants are still at large.......
Twenty odd people were also taken into custody and subjected to an intensive interrogation, but subsequently let off as the investigating police officials were woefully unable to muster up concrete and action worthy evidence against them......
As has more or less become the norm in such cases, well meaning and concerned citizens of the national capital have once again taken to the streets clamouring for justice and tougher laws that will guarantee the safety and security of the women folk of this glorious nation......
And as usual we again seem to be missing the wood for the trees, what this nation needs is not tougher and more vigorous laws but a far more efficient, professional, sympathetic, empathetic and empowered police force that has both the inclination as well as wherewithal to launch a comprehensive, time bound and result oriented investigation into every such case expressly aimed at bringing the culprits to book within the shortest possible time........
Coupled with a professional and well equipped police force we also need an adequate number of courts and law officers who take cognisance of the evidence produced before them and sentence the culprits expeditiously within the shortest possible time frame.........
At last count the country as a whole was running short off 40,000 odd police personnel, 15,000 odd courts as well as 22,000 odd judges; the government's both at the centre as well as the states have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo and not letting matters reach their logical conclusion......
A robust, independent and professional investigative agency as well as an adequate number of judges as well as courts simply spell doom for the incumbent government's and mean the beginning of the end of the reign of victimisation, selective investigation of crimes and filing of cases against those opposing forces perceived to be inimical and antagonistic to the government and it's nefarious interests.......
The same also means the end of the blatant misuse of the political machinery for narrow, partisan and largely self serving needs and the provision of an adequate number of courts as well as judicial officers means that the slew of cases filed against various politicians for their sins of omission and commission will now be decided in a time bound manner rather than the years together as at present.......
So how do you expect government's and political parties as well as government's who have reduced the police forces within the country to hand maidens and tools of vindictiveness to usher in police as well as judicial reforms and let go off the holy cow???
It has been proved time and again beyond all reasonable doubt that the police forces will never ever shed their sense of inertia and sheer apathy towards investigating and taking crimes committed against the common people of this country to their logical conclusion; and with the existing courts in the country being deluged by the sheer number of cases pending before them, it is only logical that an appellant must consider himself or herself to be extremely lucky and fortunate if the case filed by them or then on their behalf is decided during the course of his/her natural lifetime......
Clamouring for justice and tougher laws is fine as well as justified to a great extent, but what we should really be forcing the government's hands into is the long delayed and much needed police as well as judicial reforms as a professional police force/investigating agency and a robust judicial system capable of handing out telling judgements within the shortest possible time is what is going to improve the situation on the ground; so let's all focus our concerted energies on these issues instead of clamouring for elusive justice as has become our habit........
This shameful and deplorable incident took place in the late evening in a public toilet in the Badarpur area that enjoins the national capital region with Faridabad in the neighbouring state of Haryana........
According to the victims uncle they were informed of this dastardly act and heart rending development by a passerby who happened to know the family; the girl was found in a battered condition with copious bleeding from her vaginal and rectum area as well as her throat that was crudely slit by her assailants in an effort to effectively silence her for eternity......
The grievously injured young girl was immediately rushed to the capital's premier medical care institution namely the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and a series of surgeries have been performed on her ever since her admission to the hospital.......
Her medical condition is slated to be stable yet critical and she continues to bravely battle for her life in the intensive care unit of the very same hospital; one assailant namely the contractor who runs and manages the public toilet on a daily basis has been apprehended thus far while the other assailants are still at large.......
Twenty odd people were also taken into custody and subjected to an intensive interrogation, but subsequently let off as the investigating police officials were woefully unable to muster up concrete and action worthy evidence against them......
As has more or less become the norm in such cases, well meaning and concerned citizens of the national capital have once again taken to the streets clamouring for justice and tougher laws that will guarantee the safety and security of the women folk of this glorious nation......
And as usual we again seem to be missing the wood for the trees, what this nation needs is not tougher and more vigorous laws but a far more efficient, professional, sympathetic, empathetic and empowered police force that has both the inclination as well as wherewithal to launch a comprehensive, time bound and result oriented investigation into every such case expressly aimed at bringing the culprits to book within the shortest possible time........
Coupled with a professional and well equipped police force we also need an adequate number of courts and law officers who take cognisance of the evidence produced before them and sentence the culprits expeditiously within the shortest possible time frame.........
At last count the country as a whole was running short off 40,000 odd police personnel, 15,000 odd courts as well as 22,000 odd judges; the government's both at the centre as well as the states have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo and not letting matters reach their logical conclusion......
A robust, independent and professional investigative agency as well as an adequate number of judges as well as courts simply spell doom for the incumbent government's and mean the beginning of the end of the reign of victimisation, selective investigation of crimes and filing of cases against those opposing forces perceived to be inimical and antagonistic to the government and it's nefarious interests.......
The same also means the end of the blatant misuse of the political machinery for narrow, partisan and largely self serving needs and the provision of an adequate number of courts as well as judicial officers means that the slew of cases filed against various politicians for their sins of omission and commission will now be decided in a time bound manner rather than the years together as at present.......
So how do you expect government's and political parties as well as government's who have reduced the police forces within the country to hand maidens and tools of vindictiveness to usher in police as well as judicial reforms and let go off the holy cow???
It has been proved time and again beyond all reasonable doubt that the police forces will never ever shed their sense of inertia and sheer apathy towards investigating and taking crimes committed against the common people of this country to their logical conclusion; and with the existing courts in the country being deluged by the sheer number of cases pending before them, it is only logical that an appellant must consider himself or herself to be extremely lucky and fortunate if the case filed by them or then on their behalf is decided during the course of his/her natural lifetime......
Clamouring for justice and tougher laws is fine as well as justified to a great extent, but what we should really be forcing the government's hands into is the long delayed and much needed police as well as judicial reforms as a professional police force/investigating agency and a robust judicial system capable of handing out telling judgements within the shortest possible time is what is going to improve the situation on the ground; so let's all focus our concerted energies on these issues instead of clamouring for elusive justice as has become our habit........
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