Delhi gang rape: Enough is enough
The
horrific gangrape of the 23 year old medical student in Delhi outraged
the nation so badly that no other news is seem to be important in the
country right now. People from all the four corners of the country
expressed their agony and the social networking sites are filled with
demands for capital punishments for the savage goons who committed this
heinous crime. The latest development over this horrific incident is
that the unfortunate victim continues to fight for her life. Doctors
treating her say that some of her vital organs ( notably intestine) have
been permanently damaged and has been on ventilator support so far.
She has undergone five life saving surgeries as well.
Meanwhile,
public demand for accountability and tougher laws including death
penalty to those savages took an ugly turn when police had to use water
cannons to disperse the crowd mainly comprising the students of
Jawaharlal Nehru University protesting outside Delhi Chief Minister
Sheila Dikshit's house against the terrible incident. The protestors
continued to agitate with a slogan "We want equal rights for women” and
said any action by the police will not deter them from protesting. One
of the protesters called it 'irresponsible' on the part of the police
and the Delhi government to have used water cannons. Many protesters
also broke barricades and tried to enter Sheila Dikshit's house.
So far
three of the accused were produced in a Delhi court on Wednesday and
confessed. One of the accused, Vinay Sharma, went on to plead for a
death sentence. Vinay Sharma, one of the main culprits is an assistant
gym instructor and Pawan Gupta, a fruit seller. They have been sent for
custodial interrogation while Mukesh, another goon who was allegedly
driving the bus when the crime was being committed, has been sent to
Tihar Jail in judicial custody after he agreed to undergo test
identification parade (TIP). Mukesh is the brother of another accused
Ram Singh, who was on Tuesday remanded to five-day police custody after
he refused to undergo TIP.
Vinay and
Pawan, however, have refused to undergo TIP, the criminal procedure in
which the alleged offender is brought before witnesses and victims for
identification. After being produced before Metropolitan Magistrate (MM)
Namrita Aggarwal, the trio were sent to court of Metropolitan
Magistrate Sandeep Garg for following the procedure for conducting the
TIP.
When the
judge asked whether they would volunteer to undergo TIP and if not why,
Vinay said, "he had beaten up the boy but did nothing with the girl" and
went on to say "mujhe faansi de do (hang me)", while Pawan told the
court, "I do not want to undergo TIP as I have committed a horrible
act". The magistrate after completing the process for the TIP
said,"Accused Mukesh has submitted that he wanted to undergo TIP. Police
be directed to conduct his TIP on December 20 at 3 pm Central Jail,
Tihar."
Almost
all the known public figures including Bollywood celebrities to
political leaders expressed their sadness over the sorry state of affair
in the country that aspires to become a superpower but can't even
provide the minimum sense of security to it's own citizens in the
national capital. BJP leader Sushma Swaraj is demanding that all the
culprits to be hanged within a month and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi
has asked Delhi CM Sheila Dixit and union home minister Sushil Kumar
Shinde to take the all the necessary actions against those savages.
It seems
the fire of protests that is burning the national capital right now is
not going to stop soon as there are massive anti rape movement started
across all over India. Everybody is saying only one thing ..no more
tolerance towards sexual violence against woman...Enough is enough..!
(AW-Jyotishman)
