so called so called and so called...we don't share this, but we have no worries with these so called(s) either! further, we doubt that crimes motivated by these so called(s) are even worth calling crimes! Perhaps they could be seen like essential manly acts carried out in order to bring back the honour of family and caste , which had been pissed upon by a silly but arrogant woman...!
Just see the callousness to the very constitutional principles and to the responsibility of the state in safeguarding life and personal liberty of citizens! Indeed an ominous trend which lurks about in the super conduits of administration of justice. This happens after Indian Courts had passed several landmark judgments in upholding the fundamental rights of citizens! The Delhi HC judgment in 2009 on sec 377 IPC, is a case in point, which decriminalizes homosexuality on the ground that discrimination on the basis of 'sex' should mean to include discrimination on the basis of 'sexual orientation'! In a remarkable foresight about the possible distortion of the constitutional principles thanks to casteiest and sexist attitudes of the Brahmanical elites sitting as judges of the new Republic, Ambedkar had underscored the importance and prevalence of Constitutional Morality over what could be practised as Social Morality, if conflict may arise between the two. On Mar 30, 2:09 pm, Venugopalan K M <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.countercurrents.org/kunhu290310.htm#HCB_comment_box > > "Sushma was the younger sister of this accused. It is a common experience > that when the younger sister commits something unusual and in this case it > was an intercaste, intercommunity marriage out of the secret love affair, > then in the society it is the elder brother who justifiably or otherwise is > held responsible for not stopping such affair. It is held as the family > defeat. At times, he has to suffer taunts and snide remarks even from the > persons who really have no business to poke their nose into the affairs of > the family. Dilip, therefore, must have been a prey of the so-called insult > which his younger sister had imposed upon his family and that must have been > in his mind for seven long months. It has come in the evidence that even if > the marriage was performed with Prabhu, there were efforts made by the > family members of Dilip to bring Sushma back. It has come in evidence that > mother of Dilip tried to lure back Sushma and so did her other married > sister Kalpana who actually went on to meet Sushma in her college. Those > efforts paid no dividends. In stead, Sushma kept on attending the college > thereby openly mixing with the society. This must have added insult to the > injury felt by the family members and more particularly, accused Dilip. Why > did he wait for seven months? The answer lies in the fact that Sushma became > pregnant and thus reached a point of no return. Till such time as she became > pregnant, there might have been some hopes in the family to win her back but > once she became pregnant, even that distant hope faded away and, in our > opinion, that is the reason why this ghastly episode took place. As if all > this was not sufficient, Dilip himself must have had the feeling of being > cheated. It is not that Dilip did not know Prabhu who was living only three > houses away from his house. The secret love affair which went on between > Sushma and Prabhu for which Abhayraj acted as a messenger must have raised > the feeling of being cheated by Prabhu. This was further aggravated because > of the so-called higher status of a Brahmin family on the part of Dilip and > so- called non-Brahmin status of Prabhu. It has come on record that Sushma > was moved to Andheri at the house of Shashidharan and this ought to have > added as a spark which resulted in tornado. Dilip undoubtedly was a young > person not even having crossed his 25 years of life and not having any > criminal antecedent. If he became the victim of his wrong but genuine caste > considerations, it would not justify the death sentence. The murders were > the outcome of social issue like a marriage with a person of so-called lower > caste. However, a time has come when we have to consider these social issues > as relevant, while considering the death sentence in the circumstances as > these. The caste is a concept which grips a person before his birth and does > not leave him even after his death. The vicious grip of the caste, > community, religion, though totally unjustified, is a stark reality. The > psyche of the offender in the background of a social issue like an > inter-caste-community marriage, though wholly unjustified would have to be > considered in the peculiar circumstances of this case. " > > This convoluted reasoning on one hand upholds the sanctity of death penalty > as the highest form of punishment and then goes on to assert that the above > crime is not heinous enough to attract the highest punishment. It reduces > the culpability of the offenders on the ground that caste and gender > considerations can mitigate the intensity of the crime. I thought the > highest court of the land would argue otherwise - that the casteist and > patriarchal motives that spurred the crime would aggravate the intensity of > the crime. > > You cannot build anything on the foundations of caste. You cannot build up a > nation, you cannot build up a morality. Anything that you will build on the > foundations of caste will crack and will never be a whole. > -AMBEDKAR > > http://venukm.blogspot.com > > http://www.shelfari.com/kmvenuannur > > http://kmvenuannur.livejournal.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "zeroneutral 2bigotry" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]<zeroneutral-2bigotry%[email protected]> . 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