On Thursday 27 Mar 2008 9:43:00 pm va wrote: > As for social norms, who gave society the right to decide/brand a > woman in a tank top as someone with loose/no morals ? Isnt that > imposing ones ideas of so-called morality on others ?
With respect, may I point out that society came before laws to govern society. Society gives itself laws. Under the circumstances, what do you feel the law enforcement agencies can do to implement the particular vision of morality that you have versus the vision of morality of an individual (or a collective) in the law enforcement agencies. Should law enforcement agencies impose or control morality at all? If they must do that whose vision of morality should they protect? Can we ask law enforcement, who are recruited from society and are indoctrinated with the morality of that society to both protect and simultaneously not protect different versions of morality. >Wrong, that fate can befall any woman of any age, strata of >society/religion/location, and the external appearance (dress) has >nothing to do with it. We fail as a society when law enforcement >agencies do nothing to bring the offenders to book, rather aid in >botching things with sloppy forensics. From what I have read and heard in the media the body of a 15 year old female British citizen was found on a beach and was declared as death by drowning. This was disputed by her mother who demanded, and got, a further inquiry. "Further inquiry" revealed that the girl was both raped and murdered at a time when this minor was known to have been staying with an adult Indian man with her mother's knowledge and presumed consent. The dead girl's diary revealed that she had had intercourse with the man. AFAIK this is rape under Indian law. On the face of it, if you put aside the press sensationalism, the law enforcement agencies have acted on the mother's complaint and have exposed the incompetence of their own colleagues. The case is now seen as rape and murder and the law enforcement agencies are on the lookout for the killer/s. Is there anything further that can be done? Under the circumstances your accusation that " law enforcement agencies do nothing to bring the offenders to book, rather aid in botching things with sloppy forensics" rings a tad hollow. Incompetence, yes. Negligence, perhaps not. The fact is that the press have chosen to highlight "the other side" of the story. A British woman on the dole takes her daughters for a 6 month holiday in Goa and leaves a 15 year old child with an unknown Indian man, a drug peddler to boot, whom they have befriended, and seems to have no objection to her daughter living in with this stranger. This story is as bizarre as the legal/forensic story. How convenient for the lawyers who are going to defend any suspected killers who are arrested. shiv
