AMITABH SHANKAR
Call it professional hazard.
After having covered the crime beat for about two years, I have started sympathizing with the criminals.
Not that I condone their heinous crimes but I sympathize with them.
No, I don't want to become Mahatma but I am overwhelmed by his statement: Hate crime, not criminals.
Try to understand them. What made a criminal out of a man whose moral values are the same as are ours, who lived with us and among us? Did he fail the society or the society failed him? Isn't it the failure of the society that it wasn't able to make the conditions available to him in which he could have grown as a law-abiding citizen, like the rest of us?
Every criminal is a subject of research. His educational qualifications, the place where he was born or brought up and the kind of society he lived in, whether he was a habitual offender or has just fallen apart, are all matters of interest. What was the first crime he committed? Was he caught or not? What punishment was meted out to him when he was first caught? Was it proportional to the offence he had committed and what was done to rehabilitate him then itself?
And then I have a feeling deep inside that all of us are criminals. It is just that we haven't got caught till now and our offence is not big enough to make headlines.
And then there are crimes because there are laws. Once I was talking with the investigating officer of a case in which a man had attempted to commit suicide after stabbing the love of his life. The police officer said that the girl was living with the man for the past one year and had promised him that she would marry him but on the day of the incidence, she refused to marry him on the pretext that she couldn't marry against the wishes of her parents. The man tried to cajole her to marry him and also threatened her that he would commit suicide if she doesn't marry him. The woman didn't relent after which he stabbed her and attempted to commit suicide. Luckily, both of them survived and the man was booked for the offence.
The police officer said had it been the man who had done what the woman was doing, he could have been booked for rape. Wasn't the man raped depending on the same logic? Why do we have different laws for different genders? Emotional abuse is no less serious than the physical abuse. Period.
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right dear,
But, this is exactly what we call life.
The man stabbed the young woman because he had never expected about the way she behaved and he always expected something else.
So, this very "expectaion" compelled him to perform the action.
Punch line; Don't expect sth frm anyone
“What was the first crime he committed? Was he caught or not? What punishment was meted out to him when he was first caught? Was it proportional to the offence “
What u want to say when u arise all these questions. For me if a criminal committed crime, then the quantum of punishment rewarded to him is not a matter of discussion, atleast for us. I am saying this because from individual to individual things, gravity of matter changes, so one can’t be judgmental about anything.
“It is just that we haven't got caught till now and our offence is not big enough to make headlines.”
I do agree with u with the above said point. Since I personally experienced that. As u know about my job profile, everybody used to process Text format resume, but when I did that, I was caught not by my seniors but my supreme Boss.
“Once I was talking with the investigating officer of a case in which a man had attempted to commit suicide after stabbing the love of his life. The police officer said that the girl was living with the man for the past one year and had promised him that she would marry him but on the day of the incidence, she refused to marry him on the pretext that she couldn't marry against the wishes of her parents. The man tried to cajole her to marry him and also threatened her that he would commit suicide if she doesn't marry him. The woman didn't relent after which he stabbed her and attempted to commit suicide. Luckily, both of them survived and the man was booked for the offence.
The police officer said had it been the man who had done what the woman was doing, he could have been booked for rape. Wasn't the man raped depending on the same logic? Why do we have different laws for different genders? Emotional abuse is no less serious than the physical abuse.”
The lady refused the marriage proposal of the man after having one year of live-in relationship. So I can’t co-relate the Rape charge and the above said proposal. Look its human tendency to fell, better to say people becomes emotional vulnerable in front of Parents aspirations. So you can’t blame anybody for that. Most of the time victim is female. So why there is so much of hue and cry if this time victim is male. As you your self can imagine that there are so much of encumbrances. This becomes acute in the case of girl. So for the above said incidence, can you tell me who forces whom for a live- in. Since past one year they were living together, so there must be some flaws or something else that propelled the girl to do such a challenging job. Otherwise in such a patriarchal society where for everything female are cursed upon, after living for one year with a man whom she had not married , don’t you think that life for her after the refusal was much like a hell.
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