Bipul Kumar, Chanakya National Law University (CNLU), Patna
It is a crime and a sin to regard a person as untouchable because he is born in a particular community – Mahatma Gandhi
What happened in the village of Hathras is a whimsical reminder of how important it is to change this situation.
If we are living in India, we are always accustomed to accepting a certain degree of accidental cruelty, and accepting that the fragile appearance of modernity lies in the inhuman nature of the Middle Ages. But from time to time, some terrible things happen that make us shake from the bottom of our hearts, such as the heinous crime of rape. Conventionally, crimes against women are so heinous, especially in rural India, that we know them well.
The story of Hathras shocked us so much because it has become a mirror. we saw the specks of democracy in India, and the sight was frightening. The basic duty of public officials is to protect the people, not the government. They do not understand their responsibilities, because the administrative services and police training have not changed since the British era. The British idea is to protect the responsibilities of government administration and law enforcement personnel. This is exactly what our officials and governments are still doing because here in India we have learned to treat accidental cruelty and medieval cruelty as normal accept casual cruelty and medieval brutality as normal.
In our Constitution stipulates that the protection of the rights of people (including the living and the dead), Liberty, Decency, and Dignity.
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