"My daughter could have been alive today" says the Father of the 14 year old daughter who committed suicide 3 years after she was molested by a person in power. Her only fault was that she was SCARED, after all that had happened to her, and she did not want to let it happen to any other girl.
The father filed a complaint against the molester and received everything but justice.
I am not going to mention the names and the statistical details of this real-life incident that happened in Panchkula, Haryana exactly TWENTY years ago for all I want to do is reflect the emotional but not political aspect of the whole case experienced by the unfortunate Father and the more unfortunate Brother of the victim. The brother, 12 years old back then, was kept in jail for more than two months and was tortured brutally and mercilessly by the police as well as the molester himself. He was paraded naked with manacles on his hands in front of his house making his sister blame herself for all that was following. Offcourse it was the brother's fault too for he was born as a kin to this girl.
The girl's mother, luckily, had passed away when she was 10 for she did not have to be haunted to see her daughter dying, her husband and son getting harassed. The courageous father for whom life became a hell, did not take back the complaint for he rightly assumed his children to be courageous like him. He fought and kept fighting but was helped by none except a family. And his fault was that he was a middle-class man and did not hold any power, the only refuge and help he could seek was from the police; but it was so gullible of him to expect DUTY from the police against the wealthy powerful citizen yet as insignificant and low standard as a molester. The molester confirmed his guilt unknowingly by using his power illegally to save himself from a justified judgement that the girl deserved much more than him. He himself was a father to his daughter who was once a classmate to the victim, one is left to wonder if he ever thought about his own daughter in the victim's place. He thought he won when the poor little girl could not take the 3rd degree torture, literally performed on his brother and mentally on his father as well as everyone related to her, and committed suicide. The limits to which a man can fall morally were extended when the molester was seen throwing a party at her death and later refusing to give her dead body after the post mortem to her father, who forced himself to take the complaint back because now he did not have the courage to lose his son. His courage was thwarted, his belief in truth and justice was overthrown. HE GAVE UP, and left the 'blackened' state with his son.
However, the family that helped him all this time chose to fight for justice until their last breath and saw success after 19 years of the sad incident when CBI was called into action and the molester was now convicted for 6 months but was bailed in the very next MINUTES. There were protests raised by the public who now realised that a middle class man is nothing alone, but if supported by many others of his kind, he can be greatly powered more than the ruined, blackened state itself. The case was reopened with the brother presenting statements against the molester who was defended by his own wife as the lawyer and was sent to jail for two years.
However, the family that helped him all this time chose to fight for justice until their last breath and saw success after 19 years of the sad incident when CBI was called into action and the molester was now convicted for 6 months but was bailed in the very next MINUTES. There were protests raised by the public who now realised that a middle class man is nothing alone, but if supported by many others of his kind, he can be greatly powered more than the ruined, blackened state itself. The case was reopened with the brother presenting statements against the molester who was defended by his own wife as the lawyer and was sent to jail for two years.
Gandhi once said, "There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts." and he would have been so disappointed to witness the futility of this statement by out very court of justice. The irony of the portrait of Justice in personifiation of a woman who is blindfolded and holds a scale in her hand is reflected here, she is blind herself and refuses to see the truth yet is given the power to bring equaliry and righteousness to its followers. The moral arc of the universe, now, not only bends at the elbow of justice but is thrashed, annihilated and ruined because of the superficial judgement it receives.
