Fie on you Blind Lady!
I read the paper this morning and to my utter dismay found that the Supreme Court has taken a fairly lenient stance on Santosh Kumar. Some of the reasons cited by them are that he was 24 at the time (sure because that is when people regularly lose their heads and take to raping and killing) and that he has since married and fathered a girl child.
Big effing deal!
I DO believe in giving people chances to do over since I've been given the benefit of the doubt myself to from time to time but certain things are just outright heinous and I don't think where people are in their lives at present mitigates their past one iota!
So Santosh is a father now. Does it in any way negate that he has the capacity to and has taken life? Or at least violated another individual's sanctity? Would it have been a lesser crime if he'd just raped Priyadarshini and not murdered her into the bargain? A lawyer no less. who is supposed to uphold the letter of the law! He's going to get out in 14 years and still have a chance to live his life. Maybe not blemish free but he robbed his victim of her very life! What about that?
What about her family who will certainly never get over the gruesomeness of her demise?
What about reparations to them? Fine! It's not about an eye for an eye or making an example of one rapist and thereby deterring the rest. But don't let this creep out of jail! Let him rot inside and watch the people dear to him live their lives away from him...let him not enjoy his daughter's growing years..Is that too much to ask for?
Many people are capable of reform but how much time should go by and who is to observe them and pronounce judgement that YES, they have reformed!
His wife and daughter can legally change their names to avoid association with him but at the end of the day does Priyadarshini get any solace? Maybe the fact that she's dead and doesn't have to witness her attacker's fresh lease on life are the best things that could have happened to her.
Disgusting!
Big effing deal!
I DO believe in giving people chances to do over since I've been given the benefit of the doubt myself to from time to time but certain things are just outright heinous and I don't think where people are in their lives at present mitigates their past one iota!
So Santosh is a father now. Does it in any way negate that he has the capacity to and has taken life? Or at least violated another individual's sanctity? Would it have been a lesser crime if he'd just raped Priyadarshini and not murdered her into the bargain? A lawyer no less. who is supposed to uphold the letter of the law! He's going to get out in 14 years and still have a chance to live his life. Maybe not blemish free but he robbed his victim of her very life! What about that?
What about her family who will certainly never get over the gruesomeness of her demise?
What about reparations to them? Fine! It's not about an eye for an eye or making an example of one rapist and thereby deterring the rest. But don't let this creep out of jail! Let him rot inside and watch the people dear to him live their lives away from him...let him not enjoy his daughter's growing years..Is that too much to ask for?
Many people are capable of reform but how much time should go by and who is to observe them and pronounce judgement that YES, they have reformed!
His wife and daughter can legally change their names to avoid association with him but at the end of the day does Priyadarshini get any solace? Maybe the fact that she's dead and doesn't have to witness her attacker's fresh lease on life are the best things that could have happened to her.
Disgusting!