I have to say I don’t agree with your article ‘Tryst with destiny’. For you, the death penalty represents a system that is unforgiving and uncompassionate. What about the lives of thousands of girls all over this country, who are being raped, eve-teased, harassed, abused, perhaps by their own family, strangers, acquaintances, friends? Where is the compassion for them? Where does the solution lie?
Justice is finally reintroduced in our judicial system after years of power manipulation by the upper crust of our society and for the families of Priyadarshani after a decade. Teased, harassed, stalked for two years, raped, tortured and murdered, and her killer went off scot-free, got a law degree, got a job, got married, had a family and lived ‘life’ for ten years while Matoo’s ‘life’ was snatched from her ten years ago.
Some argue that this is not the rarest of rare case. How do you define ‘rare’? You call this case a common case? A normal act for a man to commit? Or are we so used to crimes that we are normalizing or getting used to it?
As a Christian, I would say perhaps maybe it is morally unethical, but the question about soul-saving, salvation, saved by grace – that’s between Santosh Singh and God. So I would say ‘Off to the gallows’ for this unremorseful, pathetic form of human. So as long as he is here on earth, may he be subjected to the consequences that the law of the land has laid out.
He deserves this and nothing less for the hideous crime that he has committed, and more so for not showing any signs of guilt or remorse.
No man is above the law, and I finally salute our Judiciary and I’m finally proud of our legal system at last. Perhaps the next rapist will think twice before he decides to destroy the life of his victim because then it would either be at the cost of his lust, or at the cost of his neck hanging on a noose.
Nivi Kevichusa
LLB 1st Year, Campus Law Center
Delhi University
