Saturday, December 13, 2008

Approved Killers

This is not flash news anymore, i think. Because all the news channels already scrolling this news without any interruption.

In warangal, two days ago, two girls (namely prannetha & swapnika) were attacked with acid.  Last night, police men killed the suspects in what they call an "encounter", where they claim that the "culprits" were trying to escape and the police had no option but to kill them. All the Women Societies and Students of the various colleges celebrated. But no one thinking about the facts. The two sides of the coin are not being shown properly. They have shown it in the light of the boy being a bad person, but has the story of Srinivasa Rao, given the same airtime as that of swapnika? Is it a case where popular belief that "boys are bad while girls are good" has taken over the minds of the people?


One side of the story according to Swapnika, is that he (srinivas) used to come regularly to her home. His (srinivas) father is a Builder and was developing some property just beside her house. Srinivasa Rao used to talk and he used to gift her regularly. Later on he proposed to her. She denied and told to her father, who worked in Indian Army. Her father called Srinivas's parents and got them aware of the situation and asked them to control Srinivas. Later on he used to harass her and one day he went to her house with acid bottle and asked her mother about swapnika's whereabouts. Just few days before this, srinivas burnt swapnika's fathers bike which was parked infront of her house. He allegedly warned that he would kill swapnika's brother. Swapnika's parents complained to the police, but was of no vail since, srinivas used his influence and came out with in one day.

After that swapnika was coming with her friend on a scooter and heard someone call her from behind. When she turned back he poured acid on her and her friend who driving the vehicle.

This is one side of the coin. on the other side:

According to Srinivasa Rao, She used to move closley with him and accepted the gifts which he used to give her regularly. He spent more than Rs. 25000 on her by giving gifts and other parties. Later on, she used started roaming with another guy. He asked her about the issue and she told him that she never loved him. Then he asked her about the gifts and other expenditure, which he spent for her. He offered to give those back to him and told him to meet her at the college. In the college she encouraged her newly found "lover" to fight with Srinivas. Then he returned and decide to take revange on her. That day Srinivas along with his two friends followed her on a bike and stopped her. Then immediatley he poured Sulphuric acid on her with glass and ran away from there.

This is the other side of the coin.

But, the police men killed the suspected guys on the day of this writing . They said that, the suspects attacked them when they took them to the place where the bike used to commit the crime and the rest of the things were stored. At this instant they attacked the police with the help of acid, knife and country made pistol.

Just think, how the suspects under custody can get all these weapons? If the suspected guys really did the things, is there any right with the policemen to kill the guys. Ofcourse, to avoid such future crimes they might be might have taken that decision, but why did they killed the remaining persons. Somehow what the policemen said cant be believed. Just imagine, if it was the guy who complained to the police about the girl harassing him and cheating him, would they have taken it seriously? Politicians always see the people as Voters. Only 5000 people demanded the Govt to kill the guys and the Govt did the same. If the Guys are Proved as innocient in later days, can the Govt return their life? if they cant, what right do they have to kill them ? Have you seen any punishment where judgement is taken without taking note of both sides of the coin? Why did the govt take this kind of judgement?

1 comment:

bioTIN said...

Another thing which we should note is that the people are stupid. They are clapping because they think the police did a nice thing. But if the police had acted before, people wouldnt have lost their lives.

Next, the case of the police force and the government is not unknown in andhra pradesh. Taking cue from this, anyone can get anyone killed with an encounter. No courts, no justice, just power would do it.

Are we living in a democratic society anymore?