Sakinaka rape-murder shows how unsafe Mumbai is for women at night: Judge
India Today
A Mumbai judge in his order observed how unsafe the city has become for women during the night.
A Mumbai judge, in a 244-page order in the Sakinaka rape and murder case, observed how unsafe the city had become for women.
Judge HC Shende, in the order, said that Mumbai -the heart of Maharashtra- was filled with various people from different cultures, all living together and celebrating many festivals, especially the Ganpati festival.
He said, “It is the festival that brings people all over India to Mumbai and it’s celebrated in every nook and corner of the city streets. During festivals this city never sleeps. But on that dark night, the city was in such a deep sleep that nobody heard the painful and withering screams and whimpers of the victim of this case.”
Judge Shende, in the order, further said, “She was brutally beaten and dragged by her scarf on the road, thrown in the tempo, raped, and then murdered, all done forcefully, harshly, and mercilessly. The assailant is so cold blooded, that he inserted the weapon inside her private part, so deep that it pulled out her intestine along with the weapon as well while removing it. This was not just a murder of a woman, but also murder of the dignity of a woman and this just showed how unsafe it is for women to be out at night alone or even with someone they know in this city."
By this order, 45-year-old driver Mohan Kathwaru Chauhan, who hailed from Jaunpur, was sentenced to death by the session court in Dindoshi.
Chauhan's defence was of total denial and false implication and he had said that the real culprit was somebody else.
However, there were a number of witnesses and evidence who helped nail the accused. A watchman, the prime eyewitness had seen a bald man tie a cloth around the neck of the woman and drag her while also assaulting her.
