Around 1430h on 06 Mar 2012.......the venue is Vettinad of Vattappara, a small hamlet in the outskirts of Thiruvananthapuram.
Rajesh, an autorickshaw driver, enters the house of 15 year old Arya asking for help to retrieve his stranded vehicle. Arya, a brilliant student and the daughter of Vijayakumar(an autorickshaw driver) and Jayakumari(who worked at a medical store nearby), was preparing for her class X exams, ten days away. With the help of her friend from the neighbourhood, she helps Rajesh to ease out his vehicle. Realising, that the girl was all alone in the house, Rajesh returns asking for a screw driver and on gaining entry into the house, rapes her, strangles her and then decamps with her jewellery.......
The principal sessions judge, today, awarded the death sentence to the culprit......Rajesh is to be hanged until death as the crime he'd committed fell under the category of the 'rarest of the rare'.
Justice on fast track!
Never has a piece of news been so welcome and I felt very thrilled, wonder why? Like the Malayalees the world over, it is savoured as a personal triumph! I empathise with the young lady's parents and have been agonising over her final, gruesome moments.
Tailpiece.
I'm of the opinion that the death sentence is ideal for a rapist. My arguments for the option are on the following lines:-
(a) A rapist has no right to live as he's forcefully changed the mental well being of his victim forever.
(b) The rapist has a psychological problem and can never lead a normal life. So, why prolong his agony?
(c) If he's on the loose, what prevents him from carrying out further acts of indiscretion?
(d) Having been identified as a rapist, he'd be shunned and ostracised by society. And so, why prolong
his agony, again?
Rajesh, an autorickshaw driver, enters the house of 15 year old Arya asking for help to retrieve his stranded vehicle. Arya, a brilliant student and the daughter of Vijayakumar(an autorickshaw driver) and Jayakumari(who worked at a medical store nearby), was preparing for her class X exams, ten days away. With the help of her friend from the neighbourhood, she helps Rajesh to ease out his vehicle. Realising, that the girl was all alone in the house, Rajesh returns asking for a screw driver and on gaining entry into the house, rapes her, strangles her and then decamps with her jewellery.......
The principal sessions judge, today, awarded the death sentence to the culprit......Rajesh is to be hanged until death as the crime he'd committed fell under the category of the 'rarest of the rare'.
Justice on fast track!
Never has a piece of news been so welcome and I felt very thrilled, wonder why? Like the Malayalees the world over, it is savoured as a personal triumph! I empathise with the young lady's parents and have been agonising over her final, gruesome moments.
Tailpiece.
I'm of the opinion that the death sentence is ideal for a rapist. My arguments for the option are on the following lines:-
(a) A rapist has no right to live as he's forcefully changed the mental well being of his victim forever.
(b) The rapist has a psychological problem and can never lead a normal life. So, why prolong his agony?
(c) If he's on the loose, what prevents him from carrying out further acts of indiscretion?
(d) Having been identified as a rapist, he'd be shunned and ostracised by society. And so, why prolong
his agony, again?
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