May 20, 2013

Understanding Criminal Justice (Part 3) Mysterious Suicides of girls in small towns

In large numbers of districts in India, mysterious suicides of girls take place at regular intervals.


Since these deaths are wound up as suicides, the cases never reach courts.


Judges and lawyers never get opportunity to examine these deaths.

But if newspaper cuttings of such mysterious suicides are analysed, it may be seen :-


1) The dead girl was poor or middle class family.


2) She was suspected to have illicit relations with few boys of rich families.


3) A "Who Done it" mysterious suicide story run for about a month in local vernacular language newspapers.



4) A suspicion arises that under guise of investigation, police may be interrogating parents of rich boys to extort bribes for winding up murder as suicide.


And after a month, chapter is closed as mysterious suicide.


In present laws, there are no provisions that mysterious deaths also are required to be reported to court.


Haresh Raichura
20/5/13