GIRL STRIPPED; SOCIETY LAUGHED; SHAME ON US

WHO CARES FOR THIS HELPLESS GIRL?

In a bizarre incident on exhibition road, Patna’s one of the busiest road, one girl was stripped in full public view on Thursday evening. This shameful incidence was witnessed by large number of people including some traffic policemen on the duty. One drunken youth allegedly boy friend of that girl in name of searching the girl for his mobile phone, which he reportedly said the girl had stolen, striped the girl and the crowd watched laughing at this dastardly act. Some went up to taking snaps with mobile phones. Everyone except the humanity was laughing.

When one local electronic media aired this news along with some footage, the government swung into action, but by this time some people in the crowd mustered courage when the drunken boy wanted to outrage her modesty in full public view after almost striping her, beat the boy and took him to the local police station, which was hardly 200 yards away from the place of occurrence.

Taking strong view of the incident, CM has ordered DGP of probing into the entire incident and doing the needful. The police after initial inquiry however said that the girl is a call girl and a scuffle took place between her and the boy who is her pimp, who later did all above mentioned shameful acts.

The state women commission’s chairperson has also condemned the incident and asked a report from the police. This incident has tarnished the image of the government which claims that law and order has improved and police has now more free hands to work. Surprisingly only one ASI has been put under suspension, whereas; the residences of SSP, RSP and host of senior police officers are hardly few yards away from the place of occurrence. The crime graph in state capital has risen sharply and police has been reportedly helpless in many of such crimes. Quite recently one employee of formerly CM Rabri devi was severely beaten up by some criminals but nothing could be done and no arrest was made.

IS IT THE DUTY OF POLICE ONLY? - We have developed a habit of passing bugs on others and do not like to share the responsibility of what is going on in the society. When it come to demanding something from the society, we raise voices of concerns and make protests, sometime violent also in order to claim rights and privileges in the name of being a member of civil society, but when it comes to rescue the society from such lumpen elements, we prefer to be a silent spectator. This has what exactly happened in Patna. We cannot be absolved of the responsibility of being a culprit of this condemnable incident. How can hundreds of people watch one helpless girl being stripped? Some may take plea that the girl in question was a call girl and therefore deserved that treatment. But even when the girl was a call girl, does it mean that she is not entitled to basic Human Rights? Such pricking questions will continue to hit minds and hearts of a sensible citizen so long such incidents go un-protested.