Indian Daughters Are Suffering..justice For Kolkata Doctor

Horrible... I can't even read your lines completely, as it gives shivers to my spine.
We are talking about freedom, women independence and what not. But look where we are today?

I always feel scared whenever I am in Sri Lanka or any subcontinent country for my safety. No matter at what time of the day, or with whom you are in... the odds are very bad, and you could very well be the next victim. My worry has doubled the moment I became a mother of a girl child, and I see why my parents were always bothered about my safety whenever I tried to liberate myself back then.

I had been to 43 countries, and I did not feel the same in all these places. There are countries where I could drive at 12.am, or request an uber ride during mid-night and still feel very safe. There are countries where I keep my window open during summer and sleep just by myself.

Taking an unknown trolley bus to an unfamiliar place all by myself and wandering is still possible in a country where I don't even speak or understand their language, and most of them don't speak English.

These are not western or highly developed countries. I would understand if that is the case, but the safety and well being of women are still possible in not so developed countries. This makes me wonder why? Why it isn't the case in our part of the world.

I would understand the safety behind the strict Shari 'at rules of the middle east. But, I am talking about the countries which follows the same Roman/Dutch law or their own country laws.

According to me, it is not about strict rules, or safety system of the country. It is about upbringing. It takes a hell lot of time and effort to bring up your male child to be a human.

Imagine the amount of teaching we receive as girl kids from birth... Be it from parents, elders in the family, community members, teachers, in laws, husband... and the list has no end. Every one has one or other wisdom to share with a woman for her safe and happy life.
What if we do it otherwise... Start teaching the boy child, repeatedly and by all.... On how to respect a girl, how not to take advantage of his gender, how to treat another human being, especially fellow girls, how not to abuse, how not to use his physical energy on something abusive, how to safe, how to use his manly power positively etc....
Imagine the amount of wisdom he will receive growing up... Imagine the how it would be if fear, responsibility, warmth, empathy and supporting nature are all instilled in his mind.

Having decent men is more than enough to ensure women's safety in any place.

When a street dog got rabies, the authorities in many countries intervene and put him into a treatment shell... if it recovers, good for the dog. If not, it dies inside the shell... hence it would not spread Rabies to other. No one will be harmed.

But in our part of the world, we advice the people to be cautious about street dogs. We ask them to take different streets, ask them to vaccinate against Rabies, ask them to always take some stones or umbrella to hit the dog, and ask young children to go with elders for safety from these dogs.

Hope you understand

 

@Sweet2016,

It is heart-breaking to read your origional post. I didn't see the news article with reference to what you are talking about. A doctor who works night shift in a hospital doesn't have a safe place, I don't know which other women would have safe places other than their own residences?

It is time to separate these two crimes into two major offenses. Most criminal who commit rape think that they can silence the victim by murdering them. Crime of this sort should be in a fast track court and the criminals arrested within 24 hours by a special squad identified for this purpose. They should conduct two separate criminal proceedings one for rape and another for murder so that there will be two criminal proceedings. If it had happened in a government hospital, the government also should be made accountable for lack of security and protection of the employees. In case where the victim is alive, DNA and other evidences must be used instead of calling the victim as a witness.

I really don't know how many lives would have to be lost before the government takes proactive actions to protect women at work and even in their familiar environment. Socially, the attitude is to protect the girls and leave the boys to grow on their own with bear minimum moral values. It is time to introduce a syllabus in the school to teach how such actions would be punished under the Criminal Law because in some cases, even minors are committing such atrocities.

It is time to switch direction to teach boys how to behave with girls instead of telling girls how to sit, how to dress, and how to avoid isolated roads. There has to be a social awareness in the society. Mostly, we are discussing it only after the fact in every case and forget after a few weeks. There has to be an ongoing movement against such atrocities in major cities, townships and even in villages.

It scares me so much at my age to learn about this kind of criminal acts.

 

I have been following this week. It's very gruesome. Parents were made to wait for 3 hrs
There is a whole lot of racket going on in that Hospital.
Mamta Banerjee is the health minister as well. TMC is definitely involved in this.
Police helped the goons in destroying the evidence

 

OMG! The politicians seem to be heartless. Hopefully CBI will bring all the culprits to book and make those who are destroying evidences accountable. Was it a looting team that came to ransack the hospital? That is what most report as though that is not controllable.

 

Calcutta High Court hands over RG Kar college vandalism case to CBI.

Calcutta High court pointed out the 'absolute failure of state machinery' in preventing the attack on the hospital

Court questioned the state's ability to provide a secure working environment for doctors,

 

Could be. The police didn't stop them. Also when the mob increased and started hurting some of the the protestors, police went and hid in the bathroom. .

 

An intern student trainee working night shift had no safe place to sleep and so she slept in seminar hall ina Government hospital. It is not a stranger or group but a volunteer reported to have visited the hall in the night and it is reported stands arrested. In the meanwhile head of the hospital could not stand the humiliation and morning now news reads he had handed his resignation.
OP is wondering what IL can do or suggest to prevent such happenings in India & other places.
I understand Indian Government & PM are consulting deans of hospitals to evolve functional laws that would prevent once for all scope for such gruesome happening in hospitals both private and (quasi) Government and once such laws implemented with rigour and vigilance would create a fearless space in workings environments.

A friend of mine in quoran too mourns and put million dollar questions as below:
Who should be blamed for the heinous crime that took place in Kolkata?
The government?
The system?
The police?
Or the hospital staff, the doctors?
Or should we blame the girl herself?

Or should we blame her father, who witnessed his child in a state I can't even bring myself to describe? What must he have gone through? What about the mother who carried her in her womb for nine months, protecting her from the world?

Or should we blame the father for educating his daughter, for teaching her to stand equal among others?
What if he had stopped that day when he first held her hand and took her to school? Seeing those tiny fingers soaked in blood today, what must he be feeling?
He must have died inside, his body only barely surviving.

Whom should he hold responsible to ease his pain?
To whom can he express his anguish?
Can he demand justice amidst television debates?

Will they get justice? Who will give it to them?

Will a few days of confinement reduce the crime?

There is a beast within us, but where does it find nourishment?
Does society nurture it? Someone among us must be their brother, father, sister, or mother, right?

So where does such brutality come from?
A woman, a mother, or a sister gives birth to them, doesn't she?

Perhaps God should give a womb outside the body,
so no father has to witness his child’s mutilation.
Maybe it’s better for a mother to let her child die in the womb rather than outside, where the pain is far worse.​

 

I don’t know if it is allowed to post this, so please delete if it is inappropriate. I got this forward from one of my WhatsApp groups. This is sickening.

 

Are there other societies in the world that commit such violent crimes against their women repeatedly? Even the death penalty does not seem to be a deterrent.