KK posted: " Can you see the eager photographers in the above picture? They were taking photos and recording videos from different angles. And what were they filming? A 13-year-old girl injured and drenched in blood was lying unconscious, but the group of men " Kaushal Kishore
Can you see the eager photographers in the above picture? They were taking photos and recording videos from different angles. And what were they filming?
A 13-year-old girl injured and drenched in blood was lying unconscious, but the group of men stood around her filming her. Nobody came forward to help her.
She was found last week in the roadside bushes with multiple injuries, including on the head. Nobody bothered whether she was a victim of road accident or attempted murder. The poor girl had to wait until police arrived and took her to a hospital on an autorickshaw.
The girl, a class IX student had left her home in the morning to purchase some stuff from the nearby market, but was reported missing, and found lying badly injured in the evening.
Later her family lodged a case against an unknown person on the charges of kidnapping and attempted rape and murder, as she was last seen with a youth in a CCTV footage. The investigations are on to trace the culprit.
Now the question is what comes first in the mind when such a victim is seen. The answer is obvious, "Empathy and immediate help." But what those bystanders were doing? "Filming." When there is such a gap between thought and action, it's certain that we are lacking somewhere as a human being.
Those unknown persons not only showed their apathy, but also made made their photographs and videos viral that revealed the minor victim's identity. Can we do the same thing if the victim is from our own family?
I'm happy that the policeman, who lifted her in his arms to take her to hospital, lodged a complaint against those heinous people, who have since been booked for interfering in the administration of justice and character assassination of the victim.
This will give a lesson and warning to such silent offenders, as this is not the isolated case. It happens so often and people remain mute spectators and the worse is that they continue to make videos, while the victim keeps pleading for help by feebly moving hands or limbs.
This is the extreme of inhumanity. They forget that love and compassion are the necessary ornaments of humanity, and a "well done" is far far better than a "well filmed." They are humans but with no humanity.
But why such an apathy or heartlessness at all happens? Because the person who takes the victim to police station or hospital are questioned vigorously and suspected prima facie. Such a person is mostly made witness to help in the investigation process that will require his frequent presence in police station and courts.
To my mind, police and legal authorities should try to help and applaud such good Samaritans instead of harassing them in the name of investigation. The law should be liberalised and made people-friendly, though it's also true that in some cases, offender himself takes the victim to police station or hospital.
What I think if we have real concern for humanity, should not get so upset about something so trivial as going to police or court for doing a greater service as a human being, but again, it depends how we measure what we think and what we do.
I conclude with what Mahatma Gandhi thought about this, "You must not lose faith in humanity, as humanity is an ocean. If a few drops are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."
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