INDIA
MAKING A SCARECROW OF OUR JUDICIAL SYSTEM
CRIMINAL JUSTICE HAS FAILED THE WEAK AND INFIRM
2019-12-09 11:28
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“At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom”. This sentence in the ‘tryst with destiny’ speech of Jawaharlal Nehru has inspired generations of Indians and will continue to do so. But there is something that will haunt all Indians for a long time to come: the agonising entreaty by the Unnao rape victim to save her life: “I don’t want to die. I want to live to see them hanged,” she told her family.