With junta pouring in views of implying severest punishment on the men who committed the brutal crime, the main accused who has been arrested has refused to do the identification parade. The bus driver Ram Singh was arrested yesterday and brought face covered to a packed court. He has been remanded to a five day judicial custody. Like most cases, he was supposed to undergo the test identification parade in which the victim/s and witnesses identify the arrested. The procedure was likely to be conducted as soon as the girl or the boy were in a condition to do so. But by law, the arrested person is allowed to refuse, and so has Ram Singh done.
The case now has to be taken forward based solely on forensic evidence. The police are also trying to recover the boy and girl’s belongings which the men allegedly took before throwing the two out of the bus.
They wanted to punish her
When late Sunday night the boy and girl boarded , Ram Singh and his fellow mates were out on a joy ride in the bus he drove as a school bus in morning. Soon the seated men started making fun of passing lewd comments to the couple. When the boy protested against this, the men started beating him with iron rods. The girl in dismay tried to stop them and further angered the men. They decided to punish her and forcefully took her inside the driver’s cabin where each attacked her one after the other.
Shocking? Disbelieving? Such men exist?
Blessed with a good family, friends, having got good education and working in safe jobs; many of us have never been witness to or direct victims of either gender bias or met men who could stoop to such levels. The very thought that such men or creatures live among us gives us the goosebumps. While social media is flooded with youth demanding such people to be castrated or hanged or publicly beaten to death, government officials raising hue and cry about giving “statements”; some people are still trying to come to terms with the fact that actually such an incident can happen.
At times like these, we feel it is a shame to call ourselves a part of such a society and country.
The case now has to be taken forward based solely on forensic evidence. The police are also trying to recover the boy and girl’s belongings which the men allegedly took before throwing the two out of the bus.
They wanted to punish her
When late Sunday night the boy and girl boarded , Ram Singh and his fellow mates were out on a joy ride in the bus he drove as a school bus in morning. Soon the seated men started making fun of passing lewd comments to the couple. When the boy protested against this, the men started beating him with iron rods. The girl in dismay tried to stop them and further angered the men. They decided to punish her and forcefully took her inside the driver’s cabin where each attacked her one after the other.
Shocking? Disbelieving? Such men exist?
Blessed with a good family, friends, having got good education and working in safe jobs; many of us have never been witness to or direct victims of either gender bias or met men who could stoop to such levels. The very thought that such men or creatures live among us gives us the goosebumps. While social media is flooded with youth demanding such people to be castrated or hanged or publicly beaten to death, government officials raising hue and cry about giving “statements”; some people are still trying to come to terms with the fact that actually such an incident can happen.
At times like these, we feel it is a shame to call ourselves a part of such a society and country.
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