Kartavya: Duty with Dedication Chapter 8

 Kartavya: Duty with Dedication

Chapter 8: Again, The Nirbhaya Case?

Many heinous incidents occur in the society that make our heart tremble just on hearing them. The Nirbhaya incident occurred at New Delhi, had shaken the whole country. Its ramifications had echoed from the streets to the Parliament. The government had understood the graveness of the incident and had made the laws more stringent. However, why do such atrocious incidents keep occurring in society is still in question. 

When a person breaks all the boundaries of humanity he takes a form of terrifying monster. The rape incident that had occurred recently in Aravalli was despicable.

Once in a hamlet of Malpur taluka, the entire village was celebrating the Holi festival beamingly. They had come for darshan of the holy fire of Goddess Holika. A couple living on the edge of the village also left their two young daughters sleeping at home and went to have darshan of the Holy fire. People were dancing in trance to the beats of the drumsticks hitting the big drums in unison. But amidst the thunderous sound of the drum, no one could hear the scream of the helpless four-and-a-half-year-old girl. 

After When the couple returned home puja of Goddess Holika, their younger daughter was not in the bed. They believed her playing somewhere nearby. They started searching her around but couldn’t trace her out. Now the hearts began trembling. After all, where has their sleeping daughter gone? In a moment a whirlwind of thoughts arose. Where would the daughter be? What condition she would be in? Who would have picked her up?

Nearby people also gathered and started searching the nearby fields with torches and lanterns. A torch light fell on the slope of the farm a short distance from the house and the sight caused a heart-rending scream of everyone who witnessed the scene. A demon of about twenty-four years old was brutally scratching a four-and-a-half-year-old girl to satisfy his lust. As light fell on that monster, he didn’t even wait to put on his clothes, he fled away to save his life.

…and a little girl laid in a pool of blood in agony and agony. All hell broke out on the daughter’s parents. The flames of Goddess Holika lit in the village had died down, but the flames that took shape in the life of the girl here were probably never going to die down.

              The shock was unbearable for the girl’s parents. The entire incident was reported to the Malpur police. The victim was admitted to the hospital for treatment.

             The district police showed extreme seriousness regarding this melancholic and sensitive case and were determined to find out the culprit and accord him the strictest punishment. Within hours, the police caught the fiend. Criticism was pouring in from all sides for this demonic act. 

The police didn’t rest by just arresting the rapist, but ensured that he would get seriously punished for his atrocious act. The then L.C.B. PI C.P Vaghela and his team investigated the case on a war footing. Due to lack of evidence, in many cases, the criminals acquitted, but in this case the police were careful not to miss even a slightest detail.

           The L.C.B. team after carrying out Panchnama collected the necessary evidences. The clothes that the girl child was wearing at the time of the incident along with clothes of the demonic man were sent to the FSL. The girl child was medically examined. All reports indicated the heinous act of the culprit.

          Sanjay Kharat’s efforts to get the case heard quickly in the Special court and the rapist to be punished expeditiously were great and his efforts were successful. The case was tried in a Special court. Public prosecutor D.S. Patel also made a strong pleading in the court and strengthened the case. Finally, every one’s hard work paid off. In just a short span of seven moths the court handed down its verdict and sentenced him by inflicting a rigourous punishment of 20 years to the devil in human form. This was a historic verdict. The efforts of L.C.B. PI C. P. Vaghela, PSI S. K. Desai in bringing the culprit to justice was admirable.

            The role of all officers and the Public Prosecutor in the entire case was instrumental in helping the victim’s family to get speedy justice.

Translated into English by Pallavi Gupta.