Late yesterday night the Warangal police shot dead the three accused in the Swapinika acid attack case. A classic “encounter” case. You can’t do anything about the perpetrators of a crime so you take them to a remote location and kill them. Case closed. Easy.
What Srinivas and his friends did to Swapnika and her friend Pranitha deserves the strongest possible punishment but does it deserve such an end? From the point of view of the two young girls who are suffering in hospital and might be disfigured for life, maybe yes. And maybe also from the point of view of a patient public that has seen our society and it’s values eroded over the years to a stage where a lynching is “good” solution. Because our laws are impotent. Our lawmakers are corupt. And our police is brutal.
The police did not lift a finger to stop the first crime even after a complaint was lodged by Swpnika and her parents. Maybe because Srinvas was the son of a local real estate baron. Somebody with money and muscle. Compared to that Swapnika and her parents are nobodies. Middle class Indians. Cannon fodder.
After Srinivas commited his dastardly crime and the nation errupted with revulsion, the police stepped in and commited a crime of their own. And offered it as a solution. The nation applauded. Girl students lined up for a police inspector’s autograph. People stood in long lines in the wilderness to see the dead bodies of the three 22 year old “criminals”, gunned down in the dead of night.
Is this what our society has become?
I too am a middle class India. A man with a young family. I too have a daughter. And a son.
I am afraid. Very very afraid.
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