Reply #15: So who are we to comment? Or to especially decry. [View All]

[TheMadMonk]

A) Police in many western nations refuse to take action, measuring expended effort, vs. likely outcome. Excuse me, the police are not there to judge, and are actually specifically prohibited from doing so.

B) Once given A, severity of the crime overlooked becomes largely irrelevant. The pertinent fact is that the police chose whether or not to perform their legal obligations.

That is where WE stand.

Now, whether we like it or not, legal precedent for the act committed by the "accused" does exist in India does exist, and unless a specific parliamentary act has overridden that precedent, the "accused" may stand within his legal rights. It may well be that he will become eligible for arrest and prosecution if/when the girl dies, if the Indian parliament has enacted laws that prohibit caste to be used as a defense in "unlawful killings", but if assault is nor specifically addressed then the police may well be blocked from acting because NO RECOGNISED CRIME has been committed.


I repeat, we personally and collectively may not what happened here, but it can be argued that a refusal to act when the law prohibits action, is not as great a "crime against society" as a refusal to act when the law requres action, since one promotes social stability whilst the other invites anarchy.

India's population's representatives, it's Parliament may choose to plug this loophole and legally prohibit any further acts of this nature, though it may not act against the individual who committed this act unless he repeats it.

Our options, as individuals are pretty much limited to being pissed off that such is still permitted in this so called 'modern and enlightened' world. And as nations to individually or collectively ostracize India until such a time as it prohibits further acts of this kind. Yet, by our own or international laws, we may not demand punishment of the individual who committed this specific act, no matter how deserving of punishment he may be.