From: me@comstore.uark.edu (My Account)
Subject: Re: Rapists on the payroll of CPI(M).
Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research
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Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 21:23:23 GMT
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In article <23280@alice.att.com> amit@alice.att.com (Amit Gupta) writes:
> In article <22JUL199210221297@vax2.concordia.ca>  
debchat@vax2.concordia.ca (DEB CHATTERJEE) writes:
> :In article <1992Jul21.144822.21157@engr.uark.edu>, me@comstore.uark.edu 
> :(My Account) writes...
> :>......(deleted).....
> :>I would like to say that the Calcutta Police department should  
immediately  
> :  
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> :>conduct a public trial of the criminals and they should be given life  
> : ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> :>imprisonment without bail.  
> : ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> [D E L E T E D]
> 
> I am really surprised. I have looked through all the follow-ups to this 
> article, and every single one echoed the same sentiment. Is there  
absolutely
> no regard whatsoever for human rights? It is interesting that the  
punishment
> (life imprisonment without bail) has been decided with absolutely no  
regard
> to the judicial process ("the Police department should conduct a public  
trial
> and the punishment .."). Is this the same SCI where we read countless  
articles
> about human rights abuses, in India & Pakistan & in other countries, and  
in
> which Justice Bains' case is actively followed?
> 
> Pl note that I am not condoning the rapes in any way whasoever. But I am 
> shocked that there is no consideration for the rights of the accused. 
> 
> I am no CPM supporter (not that that should matter anyway); but I am  
really
> surprised that the CPM cadres have been pronounced guilty, IMHO,without  
any
> evidence whatsoever. I fear for the day  when judicial decisions will be  
made
> on the basis of public opinion. Truth will be the first casuality.
> 
> Well-reasoned followup are welcome. Flames will be ignored, as usual.
> 
> -amit
> Amit Gupta
> amit@research.att.com
Amit Gupta, first of all by public trial I meant a publicized trial,  
conducted fairly following due process. But given the fact that a girl was  
raped in front of a standing crowd in broad day light, I don't think that  
there much controversy regarding the guilt of those hooligans. I don't  
know if you have a wife, a sister or a mother, but the very fact that I am  
a women and have grown up in Calcutta, I can feel the pain in every cell  
of my body. Where is your human rights concern for the girl, whose body  
and life was abused by a bunch of anti-social? 

 It does not take a rocket scientist to know that these hooligans had some  
sort of political protection that made them so confident of themselves  
that they could do such a crime without fearing anything.

 Human Rights!!! You can talk about it as long as people feel that there  
is something called justice. If killers of Debjani Banik could evade death  
penalty by bribing upto High Court and Supreme Court, I don't know if the  
notion of human rights is very much relevant in our society. I don't think  
you really understand where it hurts to even hear this kind of news. CPM  
govt. has been operating like virtual autocrats since there is no viable  
alternative to them. Cong(I) are no better as we all know. The ills of the  
society are so deep rooted that mere changing of parties will probably not  
change the situation very much.-- Aditi Sen 
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