A couple of months or so back a
lady who was travelling in a car during the night had fallen prey to mass rape
at Kolkata. Not only almost all the
newspapers of West Bengal but also newspapers of all other parts of the country
had reported about that incident. Nevertheless, since CPM is not in power in
West Bengal, bourgeoisie press of our country had not thought it apt to give prominence
to that news which found a place in
a small column somewhere inside their issues. The prominent bourgeoisie
newspapers of Kerala like Malayala Manorama and Mathrubhoomi had not bothered
even to report about that incident.
Let us suppose
such an incident of mass rape had occurred during the rule of CPM. Then we can
imagine as to how much hullabaloo would have been created by the media and the so-called
self-styled protectors of womanhood and their rights of our country?
Undoubtedly, the media would have vied with each other in giving scores of news
continuously on a daily basis twisting the facts according to their whims and
fancies as also imagination. Moreover,
they would have gone to the extent of making that incident an occasion to
spread anti-CPM venom by publishing/broadcasting news –
Either as—
“It is
suspected by the police that the culprits involved in this heinous act of mass
rape are CPM men”
Or as –
“The culprits involved in
this heinous act are said to be CPM supporters.”
When the news regarding this incident of mass rape was
known, even before making a formal inquiry into the same, Mamatha Banerjee,
Chief Minister of West Bengal reacted as follows—
“It is
not a fact that that lady was subjected to mass rape; the complaint regarding
mass rape is a part of sinister conspiracy hatched by the CPM and the media to
tarnish the image of my government”.
It is ridiculous and intriguing that she had made this
irresponsible comment without even conducting a preliminary inquiry into the
complaint of mass rape. Police Commissioner had also echoed the said comment of Mamatha.
Inspite of the fact that both Mamatha as also Police
Commissioner outrightly rejected the charge of mass rape, Smt.Damayanthi Sen,
who was the then Joint Commissioner(Crime) had ordered an inquiry based on the complaint
of the victim and had taken effective and immediate steps at arresting the
culprits and registering cases against them. Even though the main culprit though
identified by the police is still at large, she had been able to get his
accomplices arrested and the inquiry was progressing very well. This was done
by her resisting the pressure tactics of both Mamatha as well as Police
Commissioner at derailing the inquiry.
As soon as Mamatha and Police Commissioner denied the charge of mass
rape, Smt.Damayanthi Sen’s laconic comment was “something has happened” which
infuriated Mamatha. Consequently, Smt.Damayanthi has become an eye-sore for her.
To the utter surprise and disbelief
of all democratic-minded and peace-loving people of our country, just before
the charge-sheet against the main culprit was about to be prepared by
Smt.Damayanthi Sen, she has been divested of her responsibility of inquiring
the said case and transferred elsewhere re-designating her as DIG(Training) at the instance of Mamatha the other day. In fact Mamatha
had prevailed upon the Police Commissioner to fabricate an adverse report against
Smt.Damayanthi Sen to rid of her from the said responsibility and he was only too happy to oblige
Mamatha. Thus shifting her from the above responsibility was nothing but a punishment transfer.
Smt.Damayanthi Sen had
exhibited her will power and courage by ordering a detailed inquiry based on
the complaint of the victim giving utmost importance to the same earning
the displeasure of Mamatha in the process. Thus she was subjected to punishment transfer with the sole agenda or motive of
helping the culprits escape making a mockery of the whole
process of law which shows Mamatha in poor light.
It is ironical that on the one hand Mamatha is bent upon punishing
and mal-treating honest police officers who are discharging their duties
efficiently and honestly. but she is not bothered to punish the guilty responsible for heinous crimes like rape etc., on the other. She is therefore a shame to womanhood. This compels me to cite a famous quotation attributed to Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of USA here which goes thus "you may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time." That is to say, the people of West Bengal will certainly realize the true colour of maverick Chief Minister Mamatha.sooner
or later and teach her a lesson.
Why Malayala Manorama and Mathrubhoomi who are
praising the deeds of ‘Didi’ to the sky limit every now and then are keeping
mum about the said incident?
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