“Now nobody will ever know if the four men killed by the police were innocent men, arrested fast to show action. And whether four of the most brutal rapists roam free, to rape and kill more women.
There are so many people exulting over #EncounterNight, amongst them people who have lost faith in the slow court system and bad prosecution – Governments are squarely responsible. This needs to be a wake up call to:
1) Appoint more judges and police, after assessing them for gender orientation.
2) Strengthen investigation so the right people are caught, and fast
3) Bring in robust witness protection programmes
Be aware, the macho men dancing in the Twitter streets right now will also defend the right of husbands to rape in marriage — the legality of marital rape — and campaign against s498A.
It is no coincidence that it is women’s rights lawyers — we work hard in our daily lives to prosecute rapists and strengthen laws — who are against the death penalty.
The Justice Verma Committee recommended that death penalty not be introduced for rape, at the very least it has no impact. Brutality invites more brutality. Incentives shift. Granting the death penalty in one individual, heartbreaking case might harm another woman.
And what on earth were the police ‘investigating’ at 3.30 am all this time later? When [sic] they were sleeping during the golden hour of evidence, refusing to register an FIR, when the young vet was alive?”
Prasanta Patnaik