K. SILADASS

What about the Rapists who raped the Underaged Girls?

by

K. Siladass

Two siblings aged ten and thirteen were forced to sell their bodies to Bangladesh men not by any unknown pimps or scoundrels but by their own mother. The mother was arrested, she pleaded guilty, convicted and sentenced to a total of hundred and fifty years of imprisonment. Cruel, wicked mother. One cannot imagine this could happen. The mother – it is a disgrace to call her mother. She is a beast, a worst beast.

It may be that justice has been done. It is true? I don’t think so. Here are two girls – underaged girls-who have had been sexually assaulted, and the law is very clear that the Bangladeshis had indeed committed rape. Yes, they have raped the girls. What action has been taken against them? Section 375(g) is on point, which reads as follows:-

“Rape

375. A man is said to commit “rape” who, except in the case hereinafter excepted, has sexual intercourse with a woman under circumstances falling under any of the following descriptions: ………….. (g) with or without her consent, when she is under sixteen years of age.”

What about the hotel owner where the crime was committed? Did he know of the crime? Or knowing it, he elected to turn blind? Was the hotel known as a place for this type of activity? If so what were the police and the Majlis doing? The hotel owner too ought to be investigated.

Dated: 17^th November 2017