Lawyer or a Male Chauvinist Pig?

Following the Delhi gang-rape case, I was glued to the television to catch up on the updates of the verdict given to the convicts. After the convicts were given death sentence considering it was rarest of the rare case in terms of brutality involved, it brought relief to millions of people reinstating their faith in courts & judiciary.

However, there was one man who had lost it, Mr. AP Singh, lawyer of two of the convicts in the case, who in all frustration didn’t leave any stone unturned in maligning the victim’s image. After all the pain the girl went through, this was the last blow to tarnish her image, a blot on humanity at large, especially when you are referring to a departed soul, who has been through hell. Addressing the media after Friday’s death sentence, Singh had allegedly said, “If my daughter was having premarital sex & moving around at night with her boyfriend, I would have burnt her alive. I wouldn't have let this situation happen.” Isn’t it a professional misconduct on a lawyer’s part? Is this the kind of language you speak for a girl or even a human being for that matter, who was tortured & brutally assaulted to death? Is this what we have learnt in our culture or is this what our education system really fosters (legal education, esp..sigh…!)? 

All I would say is Mr. Singh please watch your words before you speak, you are no moral police to give a moral charter to all the women’s across the country or even men for that matter. Don’t be a male chauvinist pig. We don’t need a character certificate from you to live our life nor do we owe you a shit! And for heaven’s sake, don’t you use your venom spewing tongue for character assassination of a victim who fought courageously for her life against the odds, but eventually succumbed to the severe trauma & injuries given to her body.

Mr. Singh, “You want these hoodlums to be freed? These beasts who showed the young woman no mercy, raping her repeatedly & pulling her intestines out with an iron rod? (I would refrain a little to call them even beasts, as that would denigrate animals…!) Only noose can be demanded for such a “grotesque & diabolic” crime and this “comeuppance” is justified! ‘Damini’ became the voice of the multitude. This incident had sparked violent street protests in Delhi & prompted a sharpening of the country’s rape laws. It is only for the courts to change the perception of the society that thinks people can get away with such crimes, by handing down harsh punishments. 

As for her having premarital sex with someone, I don’t think, you were assisting her, to know all these details, isn't it? And Mr. Singh please grow up (not by age but by your thinking!) We live in 21st century, every person, be it a man or a woman, has a right to have sex with a person of his/her choice with their consent, it isn't a crime! (Please read Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory!). If a woman is having pre marital sex with her boyfriend or any damn person with her own consent, it really doesn't gives a license to some other men, to molest or outrage her modesty without her will (it’s called rape & not sex). And please, if you call 9.00 p.m, night, let me enlighten you with the fact, that working women’s like us travel till 11.00 p.m or even 12.00 a.m sometimes in the night. Even professional courses like MBA need people to travel in the night, given the hectic study schedule. Having said that, I think you need to correct your definition of being late, especially when you said, she was moving around late in the night! Again roaming around with a male friend doesn’t necessarily make them our boyfriends or husbands (sick mentality!) 

Mr. Singh, having no shame to apologize for your comments, you should introspect a little, your own conscience and see the amount of filth you are carrying deep inside your soul! Or probably this may be a publicity stunt for you, to gain visibility in the eyes of people and create a bad reputation for yourself; at least people will talk about you! But again, to what extent can you sell your conscience or values to garner cheap publicity? It is as if, you are getting seduced by our own mantras & becoming monuments to them. Stop talking for a while & liberate yourself from your suffocating mantras. Be a human being. Change! Grow! Evolve!