The everyday stories we hear on our news timelines pertaining to cases of sexual assault and rapes can get anyone’s blood boiling.
Despite so many rising voices to curb crimes against women, the incidents of rapes continue to get reported, and their heinous nature continues to get worse and worse.
Case in point – the rape of a 13 year old by an SHO, which has again put a big question mark on the whole system, as someone who’s supposed to protect women from such atrocities, allegedly turned into a monster himself.
The underage teenage child was first kidnapped and raped by four men. And when she somehow managed to escape and went to a police station to lodge a complaint, she was – to her horror, raped again by SHO Tilakdhari Saroj.
Accused inspector was absconding. Police was behind the accused; they were regularly changing phones. One of the accused was arrested, he was made to reveal whereabouts of others & they were nabbed. Rape case filed, high-level probe to be conducted: Prem Prakash, ADG Prayagraj pic.twitter.com/I3hsNs7XmA
— ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) May 4, 2022
The incident took place in the police station in Lalitpur district of Uttar Pradesh, but has caught national attention.
the story has ignited the wrath of common people, as everyone has yet again called out for stricter and faster punishments for rapists.
Expressing his shock and horror at the event, actor Riteish Deshmukh also took to his social media, asking such perpetrators to be hanged in public for their crimes:
“If this is true then nothing could be worse. Where will people go to seek justice if the protector becomes the predator? Such people should be hanged on the streets. Government should take action as soon as possible.”
अगर यह सच है तो इससे बदतर कुछ नहीं हो सकता। रक्षक ही भक्षक बन जाए तो आम इंसान न्याय माँगने कहाँ जाए। ऐसे लोगों को सरे आम, चौराहे पर मारना चाहिए। साकार जल्द कार्यवाही करे और सख़्त से सख़्त सजा दे। https://t.co/lYuNBZB3cK
— Riteish Deshmukh (@Riteishd) May 4, 2022
The fact that she was just a child of 13 years of age makes this even worse…