RAPE MENACE:

Wholesale change and transformation of the system in its entirety will take much time and the intensity and urgency for immediate action to assuage the anger would be lost. Government keeps ordering commissions of inquiries which dilute or put the issues in cold storage. That they have done in this case also. People whose daughters and sisters are not raped would sit in such commissions and decide to frame moderate laws keeping human right activists in front to save the rapists and murderers sitting in the governance. They can not realize the trauma that the victims and their families go through. Govt. must give a try to include victim’s relatives in such commissions.

All this system reforms can take time. When medicines do not work surgery is required. An ordinance can be passed now announcing capital punishment for rape to assuage the anger of the public at large and as a concrete step to stop this menace. “Rapists will be hanged” should be given wide publicity like tobacco ads against cancer are being given these days. Fear of loosing life would control the lust. Nothing less will do as we have seen during all these years after independence. Fear is to be created in the mind of such criminals who are a negligible percentage of the population spoiling the society and can be written off. Mad dogs are not and need not be treated. They must be eliminated. Our government should take lessons from the countries where such offences are nil or negligible.

The spree of rapes and molestations is not stopping even when country wide protests and demonstrations are going on. Fifty two rapes have been reported since 16 December and we do not know how many have gone unreported. Even after government’s assurances that necessary steps would be taken, the protesters in large numbers are marching towards India Gate on 27^th December. This is because the public has lost confidence in the governance and fed up with the assurance and promises. Some abroad may be wondering Delhi is the rape capital of India or India is the rape country?

Govt. has done one good thing in sending the victim to Singapore for treatment along with her family. It is high time for the government to restore public confidence and give commitment in the form of an ordinance or announcement by the PM about exact actions they are going to take and stop being vague. Meanwhile let us keep praying for the safe recovery of the brave girl.

Wing Commander Vishnu Singh (Veteran)

TIME FOR CHANGE:

After one week of public out cry on the Delhi girl rape on 16 Dec Mr. Singh the chief executive of our great nation could make up his “mann” and break his “maun” by reading meekly a written statement by someone which he always does, that the anger of the protesters is legitimate but violence is not; forgetting that anger if not doused on the out set would turn into violence making it legitimate. Violence is the expression of pent up anger. After so much of hue and cry it was expected that the PM or HM would come out to meet the protesters personally and give a sympathetic hearing. That would have assuaged their anger; but no. And see the TV coverage and decide who was violent, the police or the protesters? The young and old ladies were beaten and water cannoned on the coldest day and night of December so far; a DIG stamping the neck of a young boy; policemen hitting girls and all. This only displays apathy towards public concerns and confused mind of our “rulers” though they are supposed to be Janta Ke Sevak. The weaker gender of any and every age is being raped every day in Delhi, NCR and all over the country for years and years. The menace has not stopped even during last one week’s turmoil. The government have not taken strong steps to stop that and allowed this stage to come when the public is out on streets. The high ups do not care because they, their daughters and families live under top security; they do not travel in buses and some if not many with charges of rape and murders are sitting in Parliament instead of jail. Fear is to be created in the mind of the criminal. Let us hope that the law is amended to give capital punishment to the rapist and award of justice is not delayed.

Crumbling law and order situation, corruption from top to bottom, scams after scams of lakhs of crores, swindling the national wealth and stashing black money outside unconcerned with the safety and security of the country and its citizens, turning blind eye to population explosion and illegal influx from neighboring countries; we all under our corrupt leadership are living in a failing democracy. Time has come to elect honest representatives and change the present rotten political-bureaucratic governance to save our democracy. Aam Aadmi Party is the only hope. Read their ideology/manifesto on their website and decide for yourself. Meanwhile God bless the nation.

Wing Commander Vishnu Singh (Veteran)

CREATE FEAR IN THE MIND OF THE CRIMINALS:

“City shamed; Girl gang raped in bus in South Delhi”: “victim is on ventilator and struggling for life”; electronic and print media screaming for action, all blaming law and its executors; have we not felt this anguish in the past? the pain and anger is too much this time!

Public and parliamentarians are demanding stern laws and suggesting measures to control the menace. TOI has come up with suggestions like chemical castration, Sensitizing Police, setting up fast track courts, better patrolling, use of technology and creating database of transport Personnel, verification of drivers, cleaners etc? Most of these are being done but of little results. Human mind is unpredictable. Who will commit rape and murder where and when can not be always forecasted or made known to the police.

Sex is not down there, it is in the mind and so is the crime. Such a criminal mind will find other ways to commit crimes if left after a little or more punishment. Ninety five thousand rape cases are said to be pending in courts. At an average of two rapes a day in Delhi and ten in NCR are committed on records. How many courts, how many lawyers and how much efforts it will take to catch and punish the guilty? How effective are the present fast track courts to dispose them off? Out of 80000 only 25000 cops are on roads as reported by TOI, why? What is actually meant by better patrolling? Stopping every vehicle and checking thus causing harassment to public in general and multiplying the already existing chaos on the roads; GPS on buses, cars, cc TV on roads?

Let us not beat around the bush when we know where the snake is. The present law and its implementation are weak and ineffective. The main cause is that there is no fear in the mind of the criminal. He knows that he can get off after committing the crime.  It is time to take drastic actions to deter the criminal. Kill the snake; kill the mad dogs polluting the society. Such people are very few in the civilized society. Eliminate them. It will not affect the society in any other way but ensuring safety to the law abiding citizens and women of the country and a clean society. Instead of experimenting learn from countries like Saudi Arabia where offences of rape are not heard. I wholeheartedly agree with Sushma Swaraj asking the rapist to be hanged and Salman Khan asking death sentence for all rapists adding that as a norm the rapist if goes to jail should be beaten till death. It is high time their sentiments and appeals are translated into law.

 

The nation has suddenly woken up to the menace of rape meanwhile Delhi is living with its reputation of rape capital.

 

Wing Commander Vishnu Singh (Veteran)

SUPREME COURT IS APPALED BY “LYNCHING LIKE” DEATH PENALTY: 

 

TOI on 12 Dec 2012 reported that the Supreme Court is deeply distressed and displeased while censuring a Tamil Nadu trial court for awarding death penalty to a person accused in a dacoity-cum-murder case as a deterrent to eliminate crime from society. SC is of the opinion that; 

A). Trial court’s judgment is Lynching-like, meaning killing some one for an alleged offence with out legal trial especially by hanging. Does it mean that the trial by the lower Court was illegal or the sentence beyond the ambit of law? NO.

B). Trial Court has imported American or Arabian criminal jurisprudence to support and justify their judgment. Does our law not permit the sentence given by the trial court? Has the court gone beyond the limits of our established laws? NO.

C). Trial Court has imposed death sentence under section 396 of IPC to create fear among criminals who commit such crimes. SC is of the opinion that according to Indian jurisprudence life sentence was the norm and death sentence an exception. If it is allowed by law, let it be an exception then?  

The judgment is given by the trial court in accordance with the laws of the land. That may seem harsh to the SC. After all it is a matter of opinion? Who knows if the same trial court judge was sitting in SC and had given the same judgment, it would have been lauded as a land mark judgment? 

We should not forget that the criminal laws governing us were framed hundreds of years back by British in a very different environment than what is prevailing now. Heinous crimes like rape that too of innocent girls of below ten years and murders at the present rate were not heard those days. Now in NCR alone there are on average ten reported rapes and murders every day and robberies and dacoities are normal affair. High and low level corruption is rampant. Criminals roam around freely on bail even if they are caught. They loot, kill and rape at will. They have no fear of law.  

FEAR IS TO BE CREATED IN THE MIND OF THE CRIMINALS. IN THE PRESENT SENARIO DEATH SENTENCE SHOULD BE GIVEN AS A RULE AND NOT AS AN EXCEPTION. SHALL WE DO SOME THING TO SAVE OURSELVES OR ONLY PRAY GOD?

Wing Commander Vishnu Singh (Veteran)

Anna flip-flops:

As reported on 2^nd Dec 12 by TOI, Anna Hazare had retracted from his early stand drifting from kejriwal, to support the good candidates put up by his Party and not to support the “good” candidates of other parties. That drift was in the right direction. Supporting the “good” candidates of other parties by Anna in the fight against corruption would be self defeating the combined cause of Anna and Kejriwal as it is abundantly clear now by the revelations of Kejriwal that all the parties are corrupt. Their “good” candidates would listen to their parties and not to Anna once they are elected and all the efforts of Anna in getting them elected would go waste. Now on 7 Dec 12 TOI reports that in yet another flip-flop activist Anna Hazare blamed Arvind Kejriwal’s “fascination” for power for the split in the anti-graft movement and said that he won’t vote for “power greedy” Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). He did not clarify as to what makes him think that Kejriwal is power hungry and not true to the cause of Corruption. Has he not seen the manifesto on A A P web site and listened Kejriwal’s speech, plan of action and videos clarifying his party’s stand? Kejriwal is on record saying that he would not fight election if the Jan Lokpal is passed by the government. Did the government listen to Anna, Ramdev and Kejriwal’s pleas against corruption? He decided to fight elections because their strategy to fight from out side was not working effectively. In democracy power lies in the Parliament and you have to be there to be heard and do something meaningful which you can not do effectively by slogan shouting from the streets or supporting “honest” candidates of other parties. Anna’s movement is fading out; masses were thinning in the rallies and “dharnas” because people can not leave their jobs and attend this sort of activities indefinitely.

Anna told Kejriwal “not to use my name, my poster and refrain from using India Against Corruption” portal. He with due respect to Annaji did that and took concrete steps to form and promote his political Aam Aadmi Party of honest representatives.  This has put him in the limelight.  Perhaps Annaji is finding side-tracked and thus this flip-flop. Anna’s “I” and “My”; and ego are creating a drift and weakening the joint efforts of Kejriwal, Ramdev and Civil Society to fight corruption for which they initially came together on one platform. It is high time for Annaji to discard his ego and support Kejriwal whole heartedly. Ramdev should join hands.