It has been more than a month that a rape has been committed against a woman in Hyderabad and few days after the crime, in the wee hours the accused were encountered by the police at the crime site when they were taken to the crime spot for crime recreation. The Police did a commendable job in giving the Justice that the victim and her family deserved.

I have been watching the protests, speeches and all the WhatsApp statuses, Facebook posts etc. etc. Everything and everyone are back to normal and this is an event in the past and yet I wanted to express my opinion as this blog is long overdue.

“Killing the rapists is a means to an end but not true Justice”

Justice doesn’t mean killing the rapists, making stringent laws, giving more security to women, creating protection teams, training women in self-defence so that they can defend themselves.

Justice can never be achieved as long as you keep asking for justice when a rape happens.

The victim’s family will not get justice by killing the rapists because she can never be brought back to life.

It is not justice if you suspend a few police officers who have failed to take action and then killing the accused in an encounter after the crime doesn’t mean the police did the right job. They just “corrected” the wrong that they have committed.

In Disha’s[1] incident, what the Police did might be right ethically, but she[2] will not get justice by killing the rapists.

She will not get justice if you do peace walks, candle marches or arrange press meets.

She will not get justice by leaders, media visiting her family and discussing how it happened and who should do what and how the accused/rapists should be punished.

She will not get justice if celebrities talk about it and post it on the social media expressing their gratitude and support.

She will not get justice by your protests or online petitions and hashtags,

She and her family will get true justice only when you kill the rapists in you. They will get true justice when there is no need to fight for justice, when there are no rapes, when a woman need not worry about her safety, when people respect women not as a woman nor as a goddess but as for the person who she is without any differentiation, when people stop treating men and women differently and when people do their job properly because

She doesn’t need your sympathy,

She doesn’t need your protection,

She doesn’t need your time,

She doesn’t need your protests/marches/debates

She needs a life where she is treated equally, given respect and dignity. Her true justice will be achieved when you are right and when she doesn’t need to be worried that she is a woman.

Teach what is important in life,
Do what is right and not what just remains in black and white on a paper because it is a person’s life that has gone and it should not have gone in vain.

[1] Name of the victim changed as per the Supreme Court’s guidelines to protect the identity and dignity of the victim

[2] All women in general (if ever they become the victims)