Fate of a rapist


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By Anshul Seth

I am writing after some time, but would like to bring to light a topic that is of relevance, and has come into forefront in India in the past few days. Its about giving death sentence to a rapist.

As a preface I should tell you, the person in question raped a 14 yr. old girl in Kolkata in 1990. He was caught and put behind bars. After much court hearings, he was given death sentence as a final verdict. But just when he was about to be hanged, the skeleton has come out of the coffin, and has become a burning issue. The President of India has intervened to put a stay on his death, and will come out with a final say on it. Lot many NGO's and Human Rights Activist groups are coming up in favour of not giving death penalty to him.

I don't understand what human rights they are talking about. This person broke the victim's nose and food pipe, before raping him. Is he human? So, why talk of human rights, they are for humans and not for animals.

My views on this issue are very extreme. I feel a rapist should be given the harshest possible punishment. The time his guilt is proved, he should leave this world. Mankind would feel relieved to get relieved of such a person.

Rape does not only kill a person physically, but kills the survivors mentally. It's such an ordeal that should be best left unexplained. Even after knowing this truth, i don't understand why decision is slow or even dead on such issues. Then and there, finish the matter.

In India, sometime back, a national political party tried to put to moot the idea of capital punishment for rapists, but God knows what happened to that proposal. It should be implemented and made a law. A precedent should be set that would make people shiver dreading this zone.

The society has to take the cudgels to end the menace. If tomorrow, Dr. Kalam stays the death penalty on that person, I would be one among many persons who would be defeated. And it will not just be my defeat or a few people's defeat. It will be the defeat of the country and the society in toto.

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