The horrific gangrape of the 23 year old medical student in Delhi outraged the nation so badly that no other news is seem to be important in the country right now. People from all the four corners of the country expressed their agony and the social networking sites are filled with demands for capital punishments for the savage goons who committed this heinous crime. The latest development over this horrific incident is that the unfortunate victim continues to fight for her life. Doctors treating her say that some of her vital organs ( notably intestine) have been permanently damaged and has been on ventilator support so far. She has undergone five life saving surgeries as well.
Meanwhile, public demand for accountability and tougher laws including death penalty to those savages took an ugly turn when police had to use water cannons to disperse the crowd mainly comprising the students of Jawaharlal Nehru University protesting outside Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit's house against the terrible incident. The protestors continued to agitate with a slogan "We want equal rights for women” and said any action by the police will not deter them from protesting. One of the protesters called it 'irresponsible' on the part of the police and the Delhi government to have used water cannons. Many protesters also broke barricades and tried to enter Sheila Dikshit's house.
So far three of the accused were produced in a Delhi court on Wednesday and confessed. One of the accused, Vinay Sharma, went on to plead for a death sentence. Vinay Sharma, one of the main culprits is an assistant gym instructor and Pawan Gupta, a fruit seller. They have been sent for custodial interrogation while Mukesh, another goon who was allegedly driving the bus when the crime was being committed, has been sent to Tihar Jail in judicial custody after he agreed to undergo test identification parade (TIP). Mukesh is the brother of another accused Ram Singh, who was on Tuesday remanded to five-day police custody after he refused to undergo TIP.
Vinay and Pawan, however, have refused to undergo TIP, the criminal procedure in which the alleged offender is brought before witnesses and victims for identification. After being produced before Metropolitan Magistrate (MM) Namrita Aggarwal, the trio were sent to court of Metropolitan Magistrate Sandeep Garg for following the procedure for conducting the TIP.
When the judge asked whether they would volunteer to undergo TIP and if not why, Vinay said, "he had beaten up the boy but did nothing with the girl" and went on to say "mujhe faansi de do (hang me)", while Pawan told the court, "I do not want to undergo TIP as I have committed a horrible act". The magistrate after completing the process for the TIP said,"Accused Mukesh has submitted that he wanted to undergo TIP. Police be directed to conduct his TIP on December 20 at 3 pm Central Jail, Tihar."
Almost all the known public figures including Bollywood celebrities to political leaders expressed their sadness over the sorry state of affair in the country that aspires to become a superpower but can't even provide the minimum sense of security to it's own citizens in the national capital. BJP leader Sushma Swaraj is demanding that all the culprits to be hanged within a month and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi has asked Delhi CM Sheila Dixit and union home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde to take the all the necessary actions against those savages.
It seems the fire of protests that is burning the national capital right now is not going to stop soon as there are massive anti rape movement started across all over India. Everybody is saying only one thing ..no more tolerance towards sexual violence against woman...Enough is enough..!
(AW-Jyotishman)
