SALMAN KHAN GUILTY : ‘BEING HUMAN’ DON’T DISGRACE THE VICTIM WHILE YOU FEEL SORRY FOR YOUR SUPERSTAR!
An Indian court has sentenced
Bollywood star Salman Khan to five years in jail for killing a homeless
man in a 2002 hit-and-run driving incident in Mumbai. The actor is one
of Bollywood’s biggest stars, appearing in more than 80 Hindi-language
films. Several of his films, including Dabangg, Ready, Bodyguard, Ek Tha
Tiger, Maine Pyar Kiya and Hum Aap Ke Hain Kaun, have been huge
commercial hits. That’s short of his bio to make one grasp the
magnanimity of a hit-and-run case which took life of one poor homeless
and injured the others who were sleeping on pavements.
The case could have got over in few months or a year had it been the poor responsible for killing of the elite but because it is the other way around it took 13 years to call it an end!
But
that’s not all — the elite are now in open revealing their dark inside,
the shameless callousness of shaming the victim and playing innocent of
a criminal.
You know what
is shamelessness? We understand when family defends their relatives but
what we fail to understand is this so called family fails to understand
the crime he committed. And that’s not enough; they start to held victim
responsible for the crime. You commit almost every crime which is there
to be committed and then cry over how good a human being and
philanthropist you are, like seriously, nobody’s going to buy your
story. Sample this — driving without owning a driving license — checked,
driving under the influence of alcohol — checked, driving on to
pavements which are meant for pedestrians to walk — checked, fleeing
from the scene — checked. Many of the people who are close to him or
fans or just random guys who wish to be in news to revive their already
sunk career are blaming the victims, poor people who don’t own any roof
over their heads, sleeping on the pavements.
They say, pavements are not for sleeping — valid. But the same pavements are not for driving too!
Who
gave you the right to drive and kill the homeless who were sleeping on
pavements? Okay, pavements are not for people to sleep on but then law
keepers will take cognizance of it and not you. Stay clear of this — now
and forever.
Then there are
these callous ‘Being Human’ admirers who argue that Salman is a good
human being, he shouldn’t be punished for a crime which is mere an
accident. Okay, point taken. But don’t forget the ‘accident’ took one
life! Moreover be it Mother Teresa or Taliban, the law is same for all.
If it’s the case of hit-and-run then law must treat all the same, they
must be punished equally. You are being punished for the crime you have
committed and not awarded for deeds throughout your life! You may be a
big superstar or poor homeless, the law if it is same for all then must
punish and held guilty all equally too. There were those who tweeted
‘beauty of a human being Salman Khan is’ — really? The one who
threatened with calls to numerous people, harassed the exes, hunt the
endangered Black Bucks? Anyhow, the near and dear ones are meant to
defend you but have some dignity, feeling sorry for the guy is okay but
disgracing the victim is not. Alia Bhatt was probably right when she
tweeted, “It hurts when your own are punished, even if they are in the
wrong. We love you and are standing by you.”
Between it’s quite a coincidence that Salman Khan found his ‘Being Human’ foundation which does all this philanthropy work just after this hit-and-run case got registered. Quite interesting, isn’t it?
Justice
is certainly delivered today but sad it took 13 years for it to do so
when a constable who was key witness in this case has lost his life in
the meantime. The aim of criminal law must never be to punish, harass,
demean or demoralize the culprit which in its own way is another crime
but to reform him or her, to teach him saner and cleaner ways to carry
his future life. It is important to hold guilty the criminal; cry or
feel sorry for the individual but please don’t be shameless to demean
the victims and mock their condition.
Its irony of our times that after more than six decades of gaining independence we still are not nearer to provide home to homeless, food to the hungry and cloth to the naked! Help them if you could and if not, at least refrain from demeaning their lives. That’s the least we could do.
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