Monday, January 31, 2011

The Addled Vigilante

"The boy strikes again",this was the headline of a daily that i go through each morning .Utsav Sharma the self declared vigilante against the rich,malicious and the culprits of get away cases, who became famous due to his attack on retired  DGP SPS rathore facing charges of molesting a young 16 year old girl.The accused got away ,the whole nation was aggravated and then one day out of nowhere a young lad  attacks him with a penknife and makes the men bleed .The media got its hero ,he was everywhere every newspaper,every news channel and even on the cyber world.People accepted him as a hero who made the evil men realize his bad doing.The police did nothing to nab the boy ,he was jailed for three days and released on a bail of Rs 50,000.It was stated by his parents that there boy is suffering from a psychological problem that prompts him to take  extreme steps in such cases.
This time the boy chose a new target Mr Rajesh Talwar  the prime suspect in the unsolved murder mystery of aarushi his daughter and hemraj his domestic help.He attacked talwar with a cleaver and nearly took his eye when the man had gone to the court to oppose a plea by the CBI to close the case.It certainly seem to me that the newfound fame has gone to the boys head and he is hungry for more .He attacked a person who has gone through multiple lie detector tests to establish his innocence but our boy here finds his own decision making superior and righteous then any court or enquiry that ever had something to do with this case.
Utsav Sharma an alumnus of NID was an introvert in his college days a self centred and shy person who mostly kept to himself .Bored of his not so normal life, decides to do something that would bring him attention and eyeballs.He could in no way be mentally lacking as the guy planned the whole attack with appreciable smoothness .The result he gets is the whole country want to know he is and why he decided to do such a thing.He was never afraid of the law and what a excuse his psychologist mother finds to save her boy,"My boy is mentally ill",well done i must say .She appeals against the accusation .Something not new for us as everyday people are appealing against the Dhobi's in Dhobhi Ghat.Hurrah he is out and what about the ill boys monitoring to prevent any such attacks in future.Well our khaki guys are just too busy with all the kalmadis and adarshes .
But the poor boy  soon faded as the Indian audience have got a daily supply of reality shows where the judges laugh like maniacs .He had to maintain his TRPs and for that a second round was needed and so it happened.He got his well deserved views and interviews and it really wont  be surprising if he is again released after a few days in jail.
What all of us Forgot !!!! in these series of events is that no matter how bad be the scene of judicial justice be in our country we have to show faith and not go on supporting such attention seekers who have'nt got anything better to do at home.Such people have to be dealt with firmness as the man he attacked has not been proved guilty.They are making mockery of the law and the police.They are in no way different as they are molding the system to get away from punishments they deserve.Such instances would only bring on more of such missions and we all know how things like these would go on spreading like the famous shoe hurling competitions which took place not so long ago. This is something to be curbed now otherwise we will be starting a new process of lawlessness and vigilante justice.

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