BY CHAITANYESH RUDRACHARYA
Life is a gift of God! Enjoy it! But please, never
enjoy your life to harm others, in whichever way it can be!
The whole nation was up in arms in December 2012!
Nirbhaya, a medical student was gang-raped on the roads of the national capital
on a bitingly cold Sunday night. After this heinous act, she and her friend, a
male, were thrown out of a moving bus, in utter disdain! Horrific and gruesome! No woman or man must ever be
subjected to any form of cruelty, for dignity is everyone’s right. But alas!
What I say is mere fiction and idealism, for Man has become his worst enemy!
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Picture courtesy- Pinki
Virani
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Aruna Shanbaug had chosen nursing as her profession to
soothe and serve ailing souls, but even in her wildest dreams, she would not
have known she would end up on the bed as a victim of rape… as a victim who
would never recuperate from rape… be it ten or twenty or forty years! Sohan Lal Walmiki was a ward boy in the same
hospital as Aruna’s. And it was he who perpetrated the most henious crime… rape
of Aruna Shanbaug.
But why?
It is alleged that Sohan Walmiki had fallen into
bad company and was frequently stealing money from the purses of the people in
the hospital. During one such time, Aruna Shanbaug caught him. Vexed at this,
she reprimanded him badly and brought the matter to the notice of the higher
ups. With this, Aruna Shanbaug thought the matter had come to an end. she also
thought Walmiki would mend his behaviour, but unfortunately that was not the
case.
Infuriated at this, Walmiki decided to teach her a
lesson and he was waiting for an apt moment for the same. On that ill-fated
day, Aruna Shanbaug, after her work, came down to the basement of the hospital to
change her dress. Incidentally, this basement, during those times, was
completely eerie, with no men or women around. In fact, Aruna had been warned
several times not to go to that room all alone, but this warning only fell on
deaf ears.
By the way, as Aruna got into the room and began
changing her clothes, Walmiki stepped in with vengeance as his driving force
and rape as the reprisal! And then, locking the room, he did the unthinkable! What’s worse, Sohan ensured that she could not
scream by gagging her mouth and leashing her using a dog chain! By the way,
that day, Aruna had had her periods as well but that too did not deter Arun from
unleashing his violence. He sodomised her!
Once the forced sodomy was unleashed, Walmiki
silently slipped away from the room, while Aruna lay on the bed, like a
lifeless body! The matter came to light, fortunately, when, after the crime was
perpetrated, one of the ward boys too came to the room, to change his dress. It
was at this juncture that he saw Aruna’s neck tied with a dog’s chain and blood
drops trickling down. Appalled at what he had seen, he informed the others, who
immediately shifted her to the ward for treatment.
Truly, that was one moment ghastly enough to scar
her life forever! As the treatment was to begin, doctors were horrified to see
her brain partially ruptured and many of her organs become dysfunctional! As he
choked her with a dog chain and sodomized her, the asphyxiation cut off oxygen
supply to her brain, resulting in brain stem contusion injury and cervical cord
injury apart from leaving her cortically blind.
That horrible incident took place way back in 1973.
Today, it’s been more than 40 years. And you may find it difficult to believe that even
to this day Aruna lies on a bed in the same state! She can’t move nor can make
her organs function. Like a small child, she lies on the bed, nurses keep
taking care of her in turn!
When one of her friends approached the Supreme
Court, it permitted passive euthanasia on her. Even to this day, many rapes, gangrapes and even
pedophilia are perpetrated with unimaginable rudery!
Is being born a woman a crime in our country?
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