A 35-year-old man was beaten up and paraded naked on the streets in Nagpur for trying to rape a 4-year-old girl in her house.
The accused, Jawahar Vaidya, was thrashed by the locals after tieing his hands with a rope. He was paraded naked on the streets before he was handed over to the police. Vaidya was a local cash collection agent for a co-operative society bank in the city.
“Vaidya visits the house of the girl every day to collect cash. Finding the girl alone Sunday evening, he tried to sexually assault her. Suddenly, the mother of the girl returned home and raised an alarm, following which the neighbours rushed to the spot,” an official was reported saying by India Today.
Men Beaten Up For Eve Teasing In Andhra
On the same day, in Andhra Pradesh’s Chittoor, four to five young men wear beaten up by the villagers for eve-teasing a minor girl. Inspector of Kothakota Mandal Ashok Kumar told ANI, “ One youth named Raju, aged around 21, and four minor boys were caught teasing and misbehaving with a minor girl who studied in Class 9.”
In both incidents, the cases were registered under the relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Protection Of Children From Sexual Offences Act.
On 27th November, the nation was jolted four men gang raped and murdered a 26-year-old Hyderbad veterinarian. All the four accused men, Mohd Pasha, Jollu Naveen, Jollu Shiva and C.Chennakeshavulu, have confessed to their crime and are under police custody.
The Logical Indian Take
The nation has been protesting against these gruesome attacks, demanding severest of action against the offenders. But to take law in one’s hand should not be encouraged, least of all by the lawmakers. Those who have sworn by the constitution should not be allowed to make a mockery of it.
When Members of Parliament encourage violence it vindicates mob justice mentality.
In several sensitive cases, our judiciary has fast-tracked cases and delivered swift justice to the victim. In this case, too, the need of the hour is for the fast track court in Telangana to deliver justice by the book and once again uphold the law.
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