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Murders Most Foul

By Linus Garg
First publised on 2022-11-21 09:38:30

About the Author

Sunil Garodia Linus tackles things head-on. He takes sides in his analysis and it fits excellently with our editorial policy. No 'maybe's' and 'allegedly' for him, only things in black and white.

In quick succession, three cases of murder and chopping of body parts have been reported from various parts of India. The first and most widely reported case was from Delhi where Aaftab Poonawala murdered his live-in partner, chopped her body into 35 pieces and dumped them across the city. In the second case just days after the Delhi crime came to light, a Kolkata youth strangled his father over a tiff over money and then chopped and disposed his body with his mother's active participation and help. In the last incident, reported on November 21, a UP youngster miffed that his girlfriend was married off to someone else, killed her and once again, chopped her body into many parts with the help of a friend and threw it in a well and a pond.

It is surprising that despite strict laws that are designed to act as deterrents to such heinous crimes, people think nothing about committing a murder and then committing the additional heinous crime of chopping the body. The threshold of anger and tolerance has dipped so low that even ordinary people with no criminal history have no qualms about murdering someone who is supposedly close to them (live-in partner, spouse, girlfriend, or even father, mother and siblings). This shows that at some level, these people lose their sense of proportion and equity and the ability to distinguish between what is right and what is wrong. They also have no compassion which a normal person is supposed have towards someone who he or she loves or is related to by blood.

More than strict laws, one feels that proper investigation, quick trial and exemplary punishment would act as better deterrent. These cases must be tried in fast track courts, the police must build a watertight case and the public prosecutors should leave no stone unturned to get a conviction. All procedures must be correctly followed so that the accused do not get a loophole to escape punishment. 

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