क्या कभी किसी ने इनके दर्द को समझने की कोशिश की? इनका क्या कसूर था??? asfi.in/webpage.php?title=The+challengers&p_type=1&parent=96&catid=97 Haseenas Story Ms. Haseena Hussain, Bangalore 1999 Haseena was working as a computer operator. Her boss, Joseph Rodrigues, made advances to her & kept pestering Haseena to work for him. Finally she left his failing company & began to work in another firm. When she refused to return he poured a full jar of sulphuric acid over her on 20th April,1999 which resulted in severe disfigurement of her face & body & complete loss of sight. The severity of acid burn resulted a hole in her head, dissolved her lips, nose, earlobes, welded one side of her neck to her shoulder, her fingers fused together. After the horrendous attack she had undergone 18 surgeries costing 6 lakhs rupees.She is still blind & has severe disfigurement. She is unable to get employment & her surgeries has been indefinitely postposted due to financial constraints. Following a long drawn out five-year criminal trial in the Sessions Court, in which the victim was exhaustively cross examined, the accused was only convicted for causing grievous hurt and not attempted murder as the prosecution argued for. In an extremely insensitive and unjust decision, where the judge did not account for the severity of the attack or its consequences to Haseena’s life and livelihood, the accused was sentenced to a mere 5 years and 3 months in jail with a fine of 3 lakh rupees. On appeal to the High Court of Bangalore the accused was convicted for attempt to murder and sentenced to life imprisonment and a further 2 lakh rupees was awarded to Haseena. The judge rightly acknowledged that ‘the consequence of pouring a large quantity of sulphuric acid on the head is likely to cause death must be known to him (the accused) or has to be inferred and as such in our view, the offence clearly falls under the category of attempt to murder’ (para 43, Joseph Rodrigues vs. State of Karnataka, Karnataka High Court) The Supreme Court of India aslo upheld the order of theHigh Court. यह तो केवल हसीना की कहानी है पर ऐसी ना जाने कितनी हसीनायें हैं।
Posted on: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 11:00:09 +0000
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