No human form is safe and secure, in spite of all the governmental claims that there’s that machinery to look after the welfare and well-being of the citizens. Assurances and tall claims seem hollow
The rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl child in the capital city of the country, New Delhi, is another of those reminders that we are living in dark-barbaric-ruthless times. Nah, no human form is safe and secure, in spite of all those governmental claims that there’s that machinery to look after the welfare and well-being of the citizens. Bogus seem those hollow assurances and tall claims.
Correct me if I’m wrong but only a very small percentage of the rape victims are treated with utmost sensitivity. If left alive they suffer severe dents on their psyches as well as on their forms. They continue witnessing hopelessness, amidst false hopes and promises.
Needless for me to add that the most vulnerable are the children of the country. Yes, both girls and boys. And the vulnerability has only compounded in these coronavirus ridden times. With hundreds and thousands not being able to attend schools, they are out there in the fields and lanes and by-lanes. Of course, in this particular case the nine year old Dalit girl had entered a cremation ground near the shanty where she lived with her family, to fill cold water from the water-cooler and it’s there she was raped and murdered by the priest and four other men.
Somehow this girl child’s rape and murder reminded one of the rape and murder of another young girl. In the Spring of 2018, an eight-year-old Bakkarwal Muslim girl was raped and murdered in Kathua, on the outskirts of Jammu. Never before in the recent history of the Kashmir region a child had been gang raped with such brutality. That girl was lured from the forest where she had gone grazing sheep and horses, confined in a village temple, drugged to be raped repeatedly before being bludgeoned to death…when her body was finally recovered from an isolated spot in the forests, communal politics came into play, to such an alarming extent that even the child’s burial was not permitted in her village. Her family carried her battered and bruised and broken body for eight kilometres, to another village, where she lies buried.
Rapes and related murders are accelerating to such extent that one is provoked to comment that there seems a nexus, between the political mafia and the machinery. If you recall what fate awaited the raped
