Justice for Asifa

Imagine yourself to be a small little girl.
One fine day you leave home to graze your horses in a meadow. What’s going on in your mind at that moment?
You are beckoned by a man into the forest, who later holds you by your neck and forces you to take sleeping pills and thens calls two more of his friends to physically assault you. They lock you up in a temple for the next three days and then kill you and throw you away.
An eight-year-old girl whose only mistake was grazing your horses?

Now think about it from a different perspective.
You don't like a family living in your neighborhood. What would you do? Rape their daughter to terrorise them? So that they leave? The excuses made by the accused are illogical. Lack of education again.

Think about the father who checked every place except the temple where his daughter was locked up. Think about him having faith in a religious place just because he had faith in god.
And then there are the rapists who blame religion. Because to drive away a community belonging to a different religion from your area, raping is a necessity. Why not blame the lustful eyes?
First you blame the character.
Second you blame the clothes.
Now, Religion?

A muslim terrorises a city. Blame the religion.
A bomb blast by a muslim and all muslims are called terrorists.
A Hindu rapes a girl. Why not call all Hindus rapists?
Hard to swallow the truth?
No religion ever preached war, sexual assaulting, terrorism, etc.
Hatred caused it all.
Every community preaches love, friendship, peace, togetherness.
So why not accuse the rapist instead of accusing the religion.
And scaring away a community from a region just because they practice Islam? In a secular country?
The community. She belonged to Gurjara Bakarwalas. The community that has always been helpful to the army be it The Kargil Wars or the 1971 war. And now they are being targeted? This is what you give them in return? Maybe the eight-year-old didn’t even know what was being done to her and all she could have felt was pain.

Imagine you have an eight-year-old daughter. She would be studying in standard 2 or 3. And she gets raped. Do you think she would have known about good touch and bad touch? All she would have known was that her clothes were torn and she was being hurt time and again and with that she would have felt fear. Don't you think she would have lost her faith in humanity? Imagine her being told that the reason she was raped was because she belonged to a religious community that the rapist didn't like. Personal grudges?

How many cases involving rape and other forms of sexual harassment have been registered since the last decade? Justice was served to how many?
Just because a democracy needs to consult many people before they impart justice. But do we not know that the system is corrupt? And the people you consult maybe corrupt themselves? Then how do you expect the people to trust the ‘impartial’ judiciary?

If you can't take the right decision at the right time, let the people take it on your behalf.

Justice needs to be done.
Needs to be done on time.

No father should be afraid to let their daughters leave home. And when that day comes, our trust will be restored on The Indian Judicial System.
And that day, both, the people and its government, the people's government, will win.
The Indian Democracy will win.