The recent rape and murder of the 31-year-old resident doctor, in a hospital of West Bengal, has brought chills to one’s spine.
After her busy duty of perpetual 36 hours, when she decided to rest in the seminar hall, around 2 a.m. in the morning, she was gangraped, tortured and murdered. Her pelvic girdle torn apart. Yes, you have read it right. It is overwhelming to imagine this helpless soul in such a plight. Her legs found in two different places. Her glasses embedded into her eyes and several brutal injuries on the face and body. How haunting it must have been, for the father, to find her daughter in such an atrocity.
Immediately after the murder, the hospital officials coined the incident as a suicide. As a repercussion, of the deemed psychotic behaviour of this female doctor. To add fuel to fire, the building, opposite to this very seminar hall, has been under renovation since the incident. Looks like the culprit has very powerful political connections. Evidence is being tampered and buried manoeuvrely.
After 78 years of Independence, it is disturbing to find another Nirbhaya case repeat. As a mother of three daughters, this incident has made my heart weep profusely.
In Islam the penalty for rape, is stoning to death for married, or flogging with 100 lashes for the unmarried. The wisdom behind this punishment gives more essence to this crime. Such punishments should be enforced, to terrify the criminals and provide justice to the grieving parents. Time to speak up and act now. If not “Now”… Then “When”?