Team News Riveting
What the police did after the death of Hatras gang rape victim was policing; now what required was politics from the Uttar Pradesh chief minister, Yogi Adityanath.
Normally after such incidents, the police often become “inhuman” as the priority for them is to cover up their “inefficiency” and so the case. In the pretext of law and order, the police authorities commit the sin that cannot be justified in political prospect.
The horror and terror faced by the girl was bound to outrage the entire Nation. Four youths gang rape a girl in a field, beat her up causing severe spinal injuries leaving her in a paralysed state and tried to cut off her tongue. For 15 days, the girl fought with death and ultimately succumbed to injuries in Delhi.
After hearing such a horrifying incident, it would be natural that people’s fury would spill out. And this was the time Uttar Pradesh police should have avoided “policing.” What could be more provoking—the police forcefully taking away the body and denying family members to perform the last rites.
If it was not enough, the senior police officials were now claiming that rape had not taken place.
Senior police officials and experts opined that the police would “misguide” the chief minister and would strongly justify that gang rape had not taken place. For, this was the only move that could cover up their inefficiency and tone down the seriousness of the incident.
In the exercise, it would be the accused to score over. Any effort to weaken the brutal incident would be a gain for the accused, who beyond doubts deserved death sentence. Any punishment less than gallows would not be in the interest of Yogi Adityanath and the ruling party.
The situation now invited political will to provide justice to the family members of the victim instead of policing. It would be high time for the chief minister to take the call and execute stringent action against the cops who messed up the matter.
The state government had constituted a three-member Special Investigation Team headed by the state Home Secretary and asked to submit its report within seven days. Being headed by a bureaucrat, it could be expected that the team would not protect the police that committed “criminal” blunders in handling the case—the prominent being delay in shifting the screaming victim to hospital.
Yogi said, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had called for “strictest action” against the rape accused, and a fast track court will take up the case soon. It was high time to act, politically!
