Medieval lawlessness, medieval thinking: Badaun gang rapes and murders still just MISTAKES

Badaun: Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav only recently in Moradabad said the death penalty in rape cases was "unfair" as boys make "mistakes". "Ladkon se aisi galtiyan ho jaati hain to iska ye matlab nahin ki phaansi de di jaye (Boys do make such mistakes but that does not mean that they should be sent to the gallows)," he said. Perhaps, this speaks about the medieval lawlessness that exists in Uttar Pradesh, and Mulaym's Ladka (son) Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has not able to manage law and order in the state. When top leaders of Samajwadi Party consider rape and murders just mistakes of boys, then criminals are bound to smile. In Badaun, four accused including a constable are alleged to have raped two minor Dalit sisters. Later they hanged them from a tree in Katra village after murdering them on May 28. The minors aged 14 and 15 years went missing from their home on May 27 night. It was the other morning that their relatives traced their dead bodies hanging from a mango tree in Ushait area. According to reports, when the family members of the victims approached the police, they were shooed away by the police. All four accused have been arrested after media campaign against Uttar Pradesh government. National Commission for Women has decided to send a team to investigate the case. This incident highlights Akhilesh Singh government's failure to put a lid on the high crime rate in the state. Akhilesh and Mulayam have failed to crack down on crime against women. Law and order situation is the state is unlikely to show sign of improvement until father-sun-duo change their frame of mind and realise that rape is not just a small mistake but a heinous crime.