On May 14 2011, a young girl aged 14 went
missing while taking a stroll late in the evening in a garden near her home in
Malwani. (Bombay) On October 13 2011, the victim was dumped in the same garden in a
horrid physical state and on November 13 2011, the victim succumbed to her
medical complications.
The 14-year-old girl had been captured by
her accused, who had promised her marriage but kept her in his captivity and rape
her for five months.
After five long months, the accuser left
the poor 14-year-old at the same place from where he had picked her up and left
her like a broken doll.
Someone found the girl in a horrible state
and rang the police.
The girl’s condition was very bad, and from
her horrible state, anyone could guess that she had been rape and kept in a very
horrible state by her accuser.
Her accuser had broken her mentally and
physically, and to the horror of the doctors, they found that the girl had been
feeding herself with paper and stone, as her accuser did not give her food so
that she could fight against him or run away.
Before dying, she gave her statement to the
police officer that she knew the accused very well, as they were in a
relationship, and when he asked her to come with her for a weekend, she never
thought she would be heading towards hell.
The girl belongs to a poor family
background; her parents had no idea about her relationship with the accuser, and
when she did not turn up for dinner, her parents started searching for her at all
the places where she could be. Alas, they could not find her and lodge a
missing persons complaint with their area police. However, as per the law, the missing
complaint can be filed after 48 Hours. This gave the accuser too much time to do
as he pleased with his victim.
However, for five long months, the police
could not find the girl. Soon, the case was left cold until someone told them
about a girl found in a horrible state, lying in a garden.
The police arrested the accused and sent
him to the Dongri remand home (Bombay) as he was a minor himself.
However,
the arrest of the accused was too late, as the 14-year-old girl had already
succumbed to medical complications after giving her statement.
Such disturbing missing cases are happening
around the world. Because the world law of searching for any missing person
only after 48 hours is very wrong and needs to be changed.
After all, to end someone’s life, it takes
a minute, and 48 hours are just a welcome song for the accused to play games,
physical and mental, with their captivity!
Police officers are bound by the law and the
system, as the law requires. Whenever there is a ‘Missing Case’, as the law requires, they can only
search for the missing person after 48 Hours. Unless the missing person is a
VIP, then the whole law system is changed, as every officer on duty rushes out
to find the missing person.
Police should take action as soon as
someone comes with a missing person complaint or as soon as they receive a call
about a crime that is about to happen. In this way, the crime can be stopped
before it happens, and a life could be saved.
In today’s time and era, with technology at
the reach of our fingertips, it is very easy to stop an upcoming crime or catch
a criminal.
However, many laws hold back
a police officer from doing their duty, and one of them is the rule of finding
a missing person after 48 Hours only.
This law of finding a missing person after 48 Hours needs to be changed, and the police officers should get into action as
soon as someone comes to complain about someone missing and by doing that, they
will be able to find the missing person alive and not dead!
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