The Girhotras may finally get justice, they tell me. I laugh at that. You can find any element in Girhotra saga but justice. For 20 years this family suffered. For 20 years the lost daughter was grieved. For 20 years the son of the family suffered unbearable mental trauma, his self respect shredded to pieces. All this while DGP Shambhu Pratap Singh Rathore, the culprit cop, laughed in their faces. Justice is just not possible in this case now; too late for that. Unless you can go back in time and fix it, which I seriously doubt; time machine is still a century away, I think.
Even if ‘justice’ is done now, and Rathore lands in jail, who will end up having suffered more? Girhotras or Rathores? Will he even suffer in jail, given that he can easily manipulate jail authorities and get VIP treatment within jail premises, him being an ex-police chief?
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Mark my plural use previously; I said Rathores and not Rathore. His family is equally guilty. They are just as callous; callous towards Girthotras’ suffering. Of course, they could not have not known what their son/father/brother/husband did. They knew what he did, all right. His crime is apparent without a dash of doubt, and the family knew it all along; notwithstanding Rathore’s wife defending him in court.
The Rathores’ family dynamics post the molestation raise a lot of questions, you know. Why did they harbor the culprit? Why did the daughter of the house not smack the father on the face? Why did the men of the family not grab the culprit cop by the scruff of the neck and do the needful? Why did the wife hang on with the husband? Wife is still defending him in court, I hear.
My humble advice to people, don’t just sympathise with Girhotras. Empathise. Feel the Girhotras’ pain and then push for the right punishment. I suggest going medieval on him. Or just plain lynch him. He should’ve been lynched a long ago, if you ask me.
