Utter lawlessness, mayhem, unrest and violent outbursts of long repressed rage have all but become a way of life in India's most populous state (Uttar Pradesh) thanks to the glaring inefficiencies and tacit support of the incumbent Akhilesh Singh Yadav government.........
In the latest instance of a youth committing a so called "mistake" (as Samajwadi Party Supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav preferred to term the inhuman crime of "rape") a three year old girl was brutally raped and assaulted by a 17 year old youth in the Tharwaranganj area of Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri district late on Friday night..........
According to the FIR lodged by the distraught parents of the young girl at the local police thana on Saturday morning, the girl was playing outside her humble dwelling all by herself when the 17 year old youth happened upon the spot and lured her away to a secluded and isolated spot where he firstly slapped her in an effort to subdue her and then forced himself upon her more than once..........
An FIR under sections 376 (rape), 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and 3/4 of the POSCO Act has been lodged against the 17 year old accused who still continues to remain at large.........
According to senior police officials three teams have been duly constituted with the express purpose of nabbing the alleged rapist at the earliest; in the interim, highly incensed and long suffering locals gathered at the city centre in umbers, forced all shopkeepers in the area to down their shutters and staged a dharna for well over two hours before the local police chowki demanding the immediate arrest of the rapist who had made good his escape..........
Matters that threatened to go out of hand were only addressed and assuaged when senior police officials rushed to the spot, pacified agitated locals and held out repeated assurances about arresting the accused within a 72 hour time frame........
Will the beleaguered and severely compromised police force fulfil it's promise or assurance or will the accused youth be allowed to get away as he has just committed a "mistake" and youths are prone to committing such mistakes because of their raging hormones and libidos; let's all wait and watch..........
In the latest instance of a youth committing a so called "mistake" (as Samajwadi Party Supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav preferred to term the inhuman crime of "rape") a three year old girl was brutally raped and assaulted by a 17 year old youth in the Tharwaranganj area of Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri district late on Friday night..........
According to the FIR lodged by the distraught parents of the young girl at the local police thana on Saturday morning, the girl was playing outside her humble dwelling all by herself when the 17 year old youth happened upon the spot and lured her away to a secluded and isolated spot where he firstly slapped her in an effort to subdue her and then forced himself upon her more than once..........
An FIR under sections 376 (rape), 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and 3/4 of the POSCO Act has been lodged against the 17 year old accused who still continues to remain at large.........
According to senior police officials three teams have been duly constituted with the express purpose of nabbing the alleged rapist at the earliest; in the interim, highly incensed and long suffering locals gathered at the city centre in umbers, forced all shopkeepers in the area to down their shutters and staged a dharna for well over two hours before the local police chowki demanding the immediate arrest of the rapist who had made good his escape..........
Matters that threatened to go out of hand were only addressed and assuaged when senior police officials rushed to the spot, pacified agitated locals and held out repeated assurances about arresting the accused within a 72 hour time frame........
Will the beleaguered and severely compromised police force fulfil it's promise or assurance or will the accused youth be allowed to get away as he has just committed a "mistake" and youths are prone to committing such mistakes because of their raging hormones and libidos; let's all wait and watch..........