The civilised society sustains itself and moves forward through the qualities of love, mercy, forbearance and forgiveness. But when some deranged elements try to rebel and destroy its basic principles and attack its moral foundations, drastic action, even shock treatment, should be resorted to.
In this light should be welcomed the recent judgment of Supreme Court of India, when it confirmed the death sentence of two rapists, who had brutally raped and killed a 22-year old young woman in Pune on November 1, 2007. The court observed that the two criminals “meticulously and carefully” planned the criminal act and executed it with “sheer brutality”. The court underscored that the duo do not deserve any mercy as they did not show any “regret, sorrow or repentance” at any point of time during the commission of the heinous offence, nor thereafter.
Read along with this the news that on March 31, a court in Kupwara (J&K) sentenced to death four persons for raping and killing a 13-year old innocent school girl in 2007.
Unfortunately, the spate of shameful and heinous crimes against women is continuing endlessly.
Newspapers have given the painful details of gang-rape and burning alive of a 15-year old school girl in Jewar in Greater Noida on May 9. She was first raped 8 months back and was being blackmailed on the basis of a video of the heinous crime. It is appalling that close relatives, including her aunt, were involved in this reprehensible crime.
How bold criminals have become can be gauged from reports of thousands of rapes and murders taking place in India. These wicked ruffians, who have become a menace to society, do not deserve anything less than death. They should be eliminated before they destroy society itself.
At the same time the civil society and its torchbearers should take a close look at the pornographic representation of women as sex objects in our media.
We would refer to just one write-up (May 5) with a photograph of an actress in almost naked position, trying to hide her private parts, with the caption “No. 1…2014’s MOST DESIRABLE WOMAN”.
Then the “honourable” paper reels out the dirty details of how 20.3 lakh Indians voted online and chosen 50 most “desirable” women of 2014. Such open invitation to debauchery and promotion of immorality should be condemned in the strongest terms.
One is right in asking the question: “Why not, at least, a few lashes for promoters of obscenity, nudity and culture of rape, if not an electric shock?”