This time it was
a five-year-old baby girl, lovingly called 'Gudiya’ (Doll), who fell to
the perverted and fiendish greed of the rapists. She was reportedly abducted by
a 25-year-old neighbor of her building on the evening of 15th April, 2013. The
distressed family informed the police, but nothing was done except for
registering an FIR with lot of delay. The point here to note here is that the
family was a poor one with no political or influential connections to impress upon
the police. And naturally, the ‘investigating’ officers never bothered to
conduct a search in the building complex.
The baby girl
was raped and tortured for more than forty hours. Finally, somebody heard her
crying from inside a locked flat and she was rescued in a most precarious
state. The neighbor seemed to have fled the premises as the noise over the
abduction grew. The police arrived, and instead of taking the serious girl to a
good hospital tried bargaining with the family for a cover-up. The family was
allegedly offered 2000 bucks to remain silent and thus close the case. The
'magnanimous' police officials allegedly told the family that there was nothing
now to worry about since Gudiya was found alive.
Yesterday Gudiya
was finally shifted to the best hospital in the city and protesters took to the
streets creating a national outrage once again in the Rape Capital of
India—Delhi— where only four months ago a brutal gang rape shook the government
of India forcing it to consider the issue of crimes against women more
seriously. Action, ordinances and draft bills followed in quick succession. Within
three months the anti-rape bill was made into a law that aimed to cover a whole
range of crimes against women prescribing the death penalty in the rarest of
rare cases. But, unfortunately, all rape-related cases in a country inhabited by
an overpoweringly large class of male chauvinistic monsters could
only be commonplace occurrences while in most foreign countries such
cases would be immediately termed as 'rarest of rare'.
A team of specialized
doctors started treating Gudiya. One of them said that he had never seen
such barbaric torture inflicted upon a little girl.
More was in
store. The same day yesterday some protesters barged into a police station
demanding action and immediate punishment to the culprits. The police officers,
true to their feudal colors, became oblivious even of the camera persons
present there. Before a shocked nation one of them slapped a girl repeatedly
and shoved the protesters out. The visuals went viral and angry reactions began
to pour in from all quarters.
Even as the
Prime Minister of India expressed his anguish and asked for stringent action to
be taken Delhi Police showed little concern. The top cop never showed up and
only a local Deputy Commissioner held a press conference last night. The Indian
society, particularly the feudalistic northern belt, refused to change even
after the most horrific Delhi Gangrape and the revolutionary aftermath. Another
incident occurred at the same time at Aligarh
in Uttar Pradesh where the body of a five-year-old girl with torture marks was
recovered. When the mother of the child went to the local police station to
lodge a complaint she was beaten and thrown out.
Money, power,
corruption, perversion and degeneration have penetrated the Indian society to
the core. If you do possess all these attributes you are fit to live in this
country, if you try to be different better leave India. In such a situation even strict laws, severe
punishment and fast-track courts fail to act as deterrents. The only solution
is a deep-rooted revolution. The Young India Movement for Change that started
after the Delhi Gangrape must not be case specific and must go on without letup
till it changes the ‘male-volent’ society.
Hope must still
be kept alive in all our hearts. Gudiya is doing well as per the latest medical bulletin, but would need long-term reconstruction. The fiendish accused has
been arrested in Bihar. A few police officials
were suspended last evening, but suspension is only a stop-gap measure. All male
monsters must be dismissed from service and arrested.
