Frangipani

Yet again!  The news reports of the rape and death of Priyanka Reddy in Hyderabad has sent shock waves – once again. It brings back thoughts of Nirbhaya… What has changed since then? Yes, the law did change and yes, it did become more stringent. But did that stop this crime from happening? Why not? It did not stop it from happening because the system of “justice” in our country is an illusion. It does NOT exist. If it existed, would we be debating about who gets life imprisonment and who gets death and how “inhuman” death sentence is…. The system does not exist because the first people one goes to in such a scenario is the police and there is ZERO training and ZERO sensitivity there to deal with such issues. Is it too much to ask for that an FIR be taken? Is it too much to hope for immediate help when delays can and have caused death? What is this innate sense of voyeurism in our country? Why this shunning of responsibilities? And then come the courts and the dates and the witnesses