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Convict
offers to marry victim
In a bizarre twist
to the Shanti Mukund rape case, the man convicted for the rape moved
an application offering to marry the victim.
The court has now asked the victim and her parents to appear before
it today to file their reply.
Yesterday, the young nurse waited anxiously as a city court was to
pronounce the punishment to be given to the convict.
But instead of justice, she received an indecent proposal to
consider whether she would agree to marry the man who raped her and
left her to die.
'Shocking decision'
Bhura, the accused, has already been convicted by court of rape,
wrongful confinement and grievous injury.
But on the day of his sentence, he filed an application saying he
was willing to marry the victim without dowry, following which the
court adjourned his sentencing till Wednesday
The victim's family members say they are shocked at the decision.
"I will not marry him. I want him to be hanged," the girl said.
Brutal crime
The victim was attending to a patient at east Delhi's Shanti Mukund
hospital on September 6, 2003, when Bhura dragged her to a bathroom
and raped her.
To silence her he gouged out her right eye and locked her in the
bathroom, bleeding and unconscious.
Activists supporting the victim say the court has set an
unacceptable precedent.
"The court has set a wrong precedent. How can they admit an
application from the boy? The court is not a marriage bureau," said
Brinda Karat, AIDWA.
Meanwhile, the prosecution feels that the application is Bhura's
last attempt to have his sentence reduced. |
