Public memory is short-lived. Is it good or bad? We will
discuss about this Point-Blank in detail.
Angered people chopped off the male part of a middle-aged
man in Mumbai after he was caught for sexually assaulting a six-year-old girl
in his neighbourhood.
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| Muskan |
Mohanakrishnan, one of the accused in rape and murder of a
10-year-old girl Muskan Jain and murdering her brother Hritik Jain, on October
29, 2010. Mohanakrishnan was shot dead by the police when he tried to escape from
their custody after attacking the policemen on November 9, 2010.
Former chief minister J Jayalalithaa, her aide N Sasikala,
Sasikala’s relative J Elavarasi, Jayalalithaa’s foster son V N Sudhakaran were slapped
for amassing wealth disproportionate to their known sources of income in 1996.
One of the leading counselors in the city Preethi Manohar, BA
(Psy) PG DIP. IN Guidance & Counseling in Department of Guidance & Counseling
in Sooriya Hospital, Vadapalani, says, “This is very much true. Whenever any
incident happened, for example, a brutal rape, we (people) normally think
emotionally. We never relate the issue or think rationally.”
When the bodies of the young siblings Muskan and Hritik were
fished out of PAP canal in Pollachi two days after the kids went missing on
October 29, 2010, the people were emotional and fiery in their words. Measuring
the wavelength of the people, a police team killed one of the accused
Mohanakrishnan when he tried to escape from the police custody 10 days later.
People appreciated and welcomed the stringent act taken by the cops.
Mohanakrishnan’s aide R Manoharan has been awarded with
double death sentence in 2012 and it was confirmed by the Madras high court in
2014. People are now thinking rationally over a period of time and, seeing the
accused crying profusely to the media people that he was innocent, people are preparing
their mind to rethink the final verdict awarded to him.
Taking the views of Muskan and her family, relatives, they
are still mourning for the death of their children. They would have certainly shed
tears for letting off the accused from the noose. But it is true, the peoples
mindset have been changing.
Preethi Manohar says: “People think rationally after consuming
time. It can also say in other way time is inversely proportional to the
perception. Once time starts moving on, the perception over some issue will
also be diluted in due course.”
Though the angered people chopped off the male part of the
rapist in public, they may rethink their view once the time starts rolling on
further and further. The sensational disproportionate assets case is another fine
example for it.
When the DMK government slapped the case on Jayalalithaa and
three others for amassing wealth to Rs66 crore in 1996, the then DMK government
displayed the rows of chappals, dresses and gold jewellery. People were shocked
to see the wealth. Now it’s almost 18 years on. She was punished twice by the
state people by keeping her away from the power since 1996.
(In
many upper class and upper middle-class homes now, many women have more than
they had displayed at Jayalalithaa’s residence in 1996)
People are started thinking she has already undergone her
punishment by throwing her away from the power in 1996 and 2006 general
assembly elections. The people who were all cursed Jayalalithaa once for
amassing wealth, now they have made up their mind to pardon her. “It is true,
many common people, working class, middle class and upper class people are
feeling pity for imprisoning her in prison for an 18-year-old case.”
Another classic example is the assassination of former Prime
Minister Rajiv Gandhi in Sriperumbudur in 1991. Several accused involved in the
case were dead and four of the arrested accused have been in prison since 1991
onwards. Though people were stubborn to hang the people involved in the brutal
murder of the leader of the Indian sub-continent, now there are difference of
opinions in executing the death penalty. It’s again the people’s court is
judging and writing the final judgment.
How is this working? No one knows and they is no rule for
it. Time
is the only medicine to heal all pains. That is the reason many
politicians start showering their sudden-love towards the people
towards the general assembly elections and parliamentary elections.
Counselors and psychologists have confirmed this is
applicable to people across the world in the universe.
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