[Reader-list] Teesta Setalvad cooked up macabre tales on Gujarat Riots : SIT

[Rakesh Iyer]

Dear Bipin jee

First of all, cases were not registered of rape by the police, not because
the girl's family didn't want to in many cases, although the latter has also
been one of the reasons for not registering cases. What's more, for those
cases which were registered, number of cases were filed together in a single
chargesheet, which is wrong, as cases for different incidents should be
registered differently, which was not the case. Last but not the least,
those who indulged in rape or other violence were declared absconding, when
they were actually in the very village/city/locality conducting their
business through shops!!! HOWZZAT!!

Moreover, the property of the absconders can be sealed if they don't
surrender in appropriate time, but even that was not resorted to. People
lost their land to those indulging in violence, and didn't get back that. Is
that acceptable?

The problem with people here is that they always portray the sense of
victimization. Gandhi's belief that victims have won a moral victory is now
being turned on its head by victims bashing their 'oppressors' in public,
like women crying loudly to create a spectacle of grief at someone's death.
What we need is people standing for upright values and asking for justice
but at the same time not indulging in portraying their victimization all the
time, and then blaming others and looking at it from that point of view.

And Pawan jee, being a supporter of Kashmiri Pandit cause, and knowing what
did happen to the Pandits, you should have supported the stand against
violence and VHP, and stood in shoulders with the sufferers of violence. As
I said, justice is the larger issue rather than Teesta Satalvad.

If Modi/Mayaben Kodnani/Jaydeep Patel/L K Advani/anybody else (includes
Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs and other religions, agnostics,
atheists..and all other human beings) commits a crime, he/she must be
punished, make no mistake about it. And it doesn't matter who supports which
cause, justice delayed is justice denied.

Regards

Rakesh