The stabbing incident involving a young woman slain by a stalker questions the very civilisational values of our society.
The stabbing incident involving a young woman slain by a stalker questions the very civilisational values of our society. Besides being a blot on visible public policing, the incident brings out how little the law enforcement authority are seen to be doing towards ensuring public safety. Police forces around the country appear to be helpless in containing the sensational wave of crimes of passion arising mostly from unrequited love rendering Indian women, already endangered by the risk rapists pose, even less confident about their normal, everyday working lives.
Are Indian men not man enough to get over one-sided love The phenomenon of stalking, a perversity rising with the advent of social media platforms, has to be dealt with far more strictly not only by the police but by the judiciary too. Taking a leaf from the American system of enforcement, the judiciary must be prepared to pass restraint orders on stalkers and, in the event of the order being violated, a minimum jail term must be imposed at once. A form of electronic tagging of known stalkers must also be considered so that they know that harassing women is not some silly game of romance. Something must be done quickly about the country’s reputation as the world’s rape capital and now that of stalkers being able to brazenly kill their victims in public places. Unless the police and judiciary act forcefully, we are in danger of being a lesser nation in which there is no guarantee of safety to nearly half the population.
