Can Venu please tell me in private the names of the journalists and the newspapeers? We should think of some awards for them.
Padmanabhan --- Venugopalan K M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3-05-07,in broad day light,a 20 year-old woman > was brutally raped by two > strangers at a remote corner of the > Kozhikkode(Kerala,India) beach. In the > end of the savage act, one of the culprits drove > blunt iron rod to the > genital of the victim and left her in a badly > bleeding condition with severe > injuries. The victim had left her home at Kannur, 90 > kilometers north to > Kozhikkode, that morning. She was in the company of > another woman whom she > knew,until a few moments before the crime occurred. > After emerging from the scene in a severely battered > condition, the woman > with the help of a few local vendors reported to the > police and was admitted > to the Calicut Medical College where the wound was > sutured and treatment was > given under the supervision of the police. > According to the content of FIR, Cr No.146/07,Dt > 04-05-07 of Kasaba Police > Station, Kozhikkode the assailants are two men aged > between 25 and 30, and > the victim is reprtedly in a position to identify > them. Acts punishable > under Sections 376(g) and 324, IPC are mentioned as > committed. > > Normally, the police give out stories of crimes such > as rape to the > newspapers as routine for publishing. But in the > abovementioned case,either > such thing didn't happen or the media didn't take > such interest in the first > instance. > When workers of a women's group Nisa visited the > victim at the Medical > College Hospital,some of the police personnel were > seemingly more vehement > to speak on the suspected antecedents/ moral > virtuousness of the poor woman > than to tell anything about their willingness to > track down and bring the > culprits to book.A few reporters of certain leading > Malayalam papers also > had queried on the allegedly misdirected enthusiasm > of the members of the > womens group to help a rape victim and to punish the > rapists, in such a > case, where the victim anyhow was already having an > unconvincing moralistic > trail. > This being the situation,the possibility of persons > acting in collusion to > subvert the due process of law, motivated by vested > interests in keeping the > moral regime intact even at the cost of inflicting > severe injuries to > womens' minds and bodies is much obvious. > Therefore, the State and the National Commissions > for Women as well as the > National Human Rights Commission may please be > alerted to the growing > incidences of brutalizations of women, where the > offenders are allowed to > take advantage of the prevailing culture of moral > policing. > These institutions, together with those in the > higher rungs in the the > police and the media would do better to instruct > their subordinates to act > in manners that respect the autonomy women should > have over their bodies: > albeit, at least to the exent that the to the law of > the land permits. > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ We won't tell. Get more on shows you hate to love (and love to hate): Yahoo! TV's Guilty Pleasures list. http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/265 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ greenyouth mailinglist is the activist support mailinglist for kerala run by Global Alternate Information Applications (GAIA) To post to this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
