She was always hailed as a prodigy in her family. She was
indeed a cosseted child of her parents. Her beautiful brown eyes reflected the
passion to reach the pinnacle of success and make her parents proud as every
person rightly wishes so. Her friends used to go to pubs, get their spirits
high, trip the light fantastic but she always found herself encumbered by heavy
clutches of the books, the only high she got was from the caffeine that she had
while burning the mid night oil. This continued day in and day out and finally
her efforts paid off as she passed her exam with flying colors and got
admission into Ivy League schools. With many thoughts pouring in her mind about
her illustrious future and her heart filled with happiness and satisfaction a
message on her phone intruded her train of thought. It was a message from a
very good friend of hers asking her out for a celebration. She had proven her
metal and now it was time to let her hair down. But the caprice destiny had
something else planned for her.
Everything went down
well everyone had a ball and it was a good night. She was returning back with
her friend in a taxi. The taxi driver kept staring at both of them as if he had
some diabolical plan going on in his mind. But she dint bother much as she had
her male friend’s company and such kind of instances were of a common
occurrence for her as she was good looking. But fear clenched her heart when
driver suddenly started to slow down on a isolated patch of road saying that he
seems to suspect a puncture. She immediately got off to see whether it was true
but instead of seeing a puncture she saw three men approaching them she
immediately tugged the phone out of her pocket and called the first number on
her dialed list but to her horror it went unanswered. Till the time her friend
was being thrashed by these four men. Her
friend kept telling her to run and she finally concurred to do so. As soon as
they saw her running one of them sat in a cab and deliberately ran the car on
her she crashed on the ground with excruciating pain. Her friend was lying unconscious
few yards behind her. These men dragged both of them to an old isolated factory
across the road and the girl was repeatedly raped by four of them. After this
hideous act they left the place and both of them were later discovered by few
people and were taken to the hospital. Investigation further revealed that the
taxi driver had already plotted the plan and would have executed it
irrespective of the girl’s age, looks or vulnerability.
This is a true story occurred 2 years ago in Delhi. The
court hearings of this crime are still going on, the girl still attends the court
trials leaving her ambitions on the backburner, now her sole aim in life is to
get the culprits punished for their malefaction. Once her eyes full of ambitions
and dreams are now full of tears . There is absolutely no denying the fact that
the only perpetrator in the crime is perpetrator himself but we must consider
the circumstantial susceptibility that encourages these monsters disguised as
humans to execute this inhumane crime. One more factor that accounts to continuous
rise in rape cases is absence of justice to the victim and never ending court
procedures and trials leading to the perception in minds of perpetrators that
the rape will go unpunished. There are many other factors that should be taken
into consideration for completely eradicating such instances and at the same
time not deviating from the book of law which I would like to assess in my
prospective articles. I would like to leave you with this one thought
“Everyone
has right to lead their life in their own way but while doing so one should be
aware, cognizant, cautious and prepared.
Put your safety before everything else”. Take Care and be SAFE.
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