India’s close encounter with rapists’ executions

Last Wednesday evening, a young woman leaves home on her mo-bike to keep her doctor’s appointment. She had just passed out as a veterinarian and with a bright future ahead of her is enjoying life. After she meets the doctor she comes out to find a tire of her mo-bike deflated. Two youths come to her and volunteer to help. Whilst they are attending to the flat tire she calls her mother to assure her that she will be slightly delayed due to her flat tyre but that thankfully two Samaritans, one a lorry driver, are helping her. She tells her mother not to worry that she will soon be home.

Shortly after she had kept the phone, two more youth join. They drag her to a nearby room where they rape her brutally. Instead of leaving her alive to identify them, they burn her alive and dump the body under a bridge. A milkman on his morning delivery beat finds her charred remains and notifies the Police.

India is horrified. Brimming with rage, crying out for revenge, demanding justice to avenge the rape and murder of this innocent girl in the bloom of life it triggers outrage throughout the country with even parliamentarians demanding those responsible for this gory crime should be lynched and even killed.

Four youth were arrested by the Hyderabad Police. They were taken this Thursday morning to recreate the scene where the crime took place. According to the Police, all four had attempted to escape, one even attempting to grab the firearm of a policeman. All four were shot dead. The Police are yet to release an official statement.

The rape victim’s family welcomed the news. “It has been 10 days to the day my daughter died. I express my gratitude towards the police and government for this. My daughter’s soul must be at peace now,” the woman’s father told the Indian news agency ANI.

India’s thirst for justice had been quenched. Blood had been paid four fold.

The only question that remained to perturb the Indian mind was: ‘ What if even one of the boys was innocent?’