Our motherland India is theoretically on the express way leading towards freedom from poverty, emancipation and liberation of it's long suppressed women, much improved and coveted sanitary facilities and so on and so forth, then what explains our penchant for taking the law into our hands at the slightest pretext and dispensing instant justice as and how we please.......
In the latest instance of an unruly and uncouth mob dispensing the triple roles of judge, jury and executioner a 14 year old teenager lost his life, while his friend is battling for his life in a government hospital after they were mercilessly thrashed by a mob led by a Deputy Sarpanch in Thari village of Bihar's Purnia District on Sunday afternoon........
One may well ask why they were lynched by the mob in this crude, deplorable and barbaric manner and what was their purported or supposed crime: well their crime if one call it that was that they were accused of stealing a fistful or few packets of khaini (gutkha) and a Rs.50 mobile recharge card from the village's kirana store........
Without waiting for an explanation from the supposed thieves the Deputy Sarpanch of the village one Manoj Kumar and his band of incensed followers decided to take matters into their own hands and dispense a brand of justice they thought would dissuade others of the thieves ilk from repeating such unwelcome behaviour.......
They first caught hold of the above mentioned youths and proceeded to slap and punch them repeatedly before hanging them upside down from a sturdy banyan tree and beating them up mercilessly with lathis and iron rods in the presence of 100 odd bystanders who did not think that intervening on part of the battered teenagers was worth their while........
The end result of the untold atrocities inflicted on the hapless victims was that 14 year old Chhotu Kumar succumbed to his injuries on the spot while his friend and confidante Pintu Kumar is manfully striving to overcome the grievous and near critical wounds inflicted on him by this gaggle of monsters in human form........
As is their wont, the local police forces deigned to make an appearance on the scene much after the cacophony had ended and the band of bandits led by the Deputy Sarpanch had made good their escape from the spot after dispensing their brand of street justice; in an effort to assuage their guilty consciences(?) and save the state government's face, the police proceeded to register cases under the relevant and applicable sections of the Indian Penal Code against the Deputy Sarpanch and eight other absconders..........
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his government cannot escape their due share of the blame for this shoddy and rather sorry state of affairs as this very same minister had gone to town promising to usher in a "Ram Rajya" within the boundaries of a supposedly lawless state and usher in a golden period where the rule of law and such other niceties prevailed.........
Will the beleaguered and cornered chief minister put his money where his mouth his and ensure that speedy and requisite justice is dispensed to the grieving families of the two innocent victims, or will this instance yet again simply go down as yet another footnote in a lawless and barbaric state where the ruling dictum is "JISKI LAATHI USKI BHAINS"........... ;
In the latest instance of an unruly and uncouth mob dispensing the triple roles of judge, jury and executioner a 14 year old teenager lost his life, while his friend is battling for his life in a government hospital after they were mercilessly thrashed by a mob led by a Deputy Sarpanch in Thari village of Bihar's Purnia District on Sunday afternoon........
One may well ask why they were lynched by the mob in this crude, deplorable and barbaric manner and what was their purported or supposed crime: well their crime if one call it that was that they were accused of stealing a fistful or few packets of khaini (gutkha) and a Rs.50 mobile recharge card from the village's kirana store........
Without waiting for an explanation from the supposed thieves the Deputy Sarpanch of the village one Manoj Kumar and his band of incensed followers decided to take matters into their own hands and dispense a brand of justice they thought would dissuade others of the thieves ilk from repeating such unwelcome behaviour.......
They first caught hold of the above mentioned youths and proceeded to slap and punch them repeatedly before hanging them upside down from a sturdy banyan tree and beating them up mercilessly with lathis and iron rods in the presence of 100 odd bystanders who did not think that intervening on part of the battered teenagers was worth their while........
The end result of the untold atrocities inflicted on the hapless victims was that 14 year old Chhotu Kumar succumbed to his injuries on the spot while his friend and confidante Pintu Kumar is manfully striving to overcome the grievous and near critical wounds inflicted on him by this gaggle of monsters in human form........
As is their wont, the local police forces deigned to make an appearance on the scene much after the cacophony had ended and the band of bandits led by the Deputy Sarpanch had made good their escape from the spot after dispensing their brand of street justice; in an effort to assuage their guilty consciences(?) and save the state government's face, the police proceeded to register cases under the relevant and applicable sections of the Indian Penal Code against the Deputy Sarpanch and eight other absconders..........
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his government cannot escape their due share of the blame for this shoddy and rather sorry state of affairs as this very same minister had gone to town promising to usher in a "Ram Rajya" within the boundaries of a supposedly lawless state and usher in a golden period where the rule of law and such other niceties prevailed.........
Will the beleaguered and cornered chief minister put his money where his mouth his and ensure that speedy and requisite justice is dispensed to the grieving families of the two innocent victims, or will this instance yet again simply go down as yet another footnote in a lawless and barbaric state where the ruling dictum is "JISKI LAATHI USKI BHAINS"........... ;
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