How easy it is for even EDUCATED and the so-called EMPOWERED-WOMEN to devastate the peace of a household with her illicit and criminal deeds!!
And how easily the society, the court, and the media still shower sympathy with the woman!!
See a live example here:
A woman a CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT by profession - gives birth to her second illegitimate child (a girl) - and then BRUTALLY kills the child !!
Please bear in mind that becoming CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT in India is a very tough task, no less that clearing IIMs and IITs entrance. The exams of chartered accountants in India have one of the least qualifying ratio; only about a few percentage of all the candidates manage to clear these exams every year!!
DO notice, how easily the courts accept the contentions of the defense lawyer... stress/depression is put across as a simple reason which gets accepted as well.
The investigation was shabby - ostensibly to protect her.
No reliance was placed on her character and hence, the reasoning that should follow, that she killed the child on purpose - in her full senses!!
Courts and Laws do freely allow the women to indulge and enjoy in extra-marital affairs without any consequences to her. Only a MAN can be tried for adultery under IPC 497!!
And DO notice how media has portrayed this news.
All attempts to project the woman as a victim by labeling her as "Depressed" !!
Had a man done this, the headlines would have been different. Like, "Killer" father, "Criminal" father, man indulges in "Female infanticide" etc....
‘Depressed’ mother acquitted of killing newborn daughter
Doctor fails to conduct test to establish whether the child - whose body had been dumped in a garbage bin - was alive when born
Anand Holla
Posted On Thursday, May 27, 2010 at 02:16:07 AM
Her lawyer had argued in court that she had been driven by temporary insanity. But what saved a 29-year-old mother accused of killing her daughter moments after birth - from a possible life sentence was the testimony of the doctor who performed the post-mortem on the child’s body. The court did find her guilty of secretly disposing the child’s body and sentenced her to 16 months of imprisonment. She had already served the sentence as she had been unable to secure bail while the trial was on, so she walked free.
So, on January 15, 2009, she gave birth to the baby at her parents’ Bhayander home with help from her family and allegedly banged the newborn’s head against the wall, killing her instantly. She then stuffed the baby’s corpse into a plastic bag and flung it out of her bathroom window into a garbage bin outside. A sweeper found the body and informed the Mira Road police, who arrested the woman on January 24. She was subsequently charged under Sections 302 (murder) and 318 (secret disposal of child’s body) of the IPC. In the trial before the Sessions Court, defence lawyer Ashish Chavan argued that his client’s violent reaction was due to the fact that she was suffering from postpartum depression and because the child was born by precipitate labour, meaning she was born less than three hours after the mother went into labour. Postpartum depression is a form of clinical depression that mostly affects women after childbirth, generating a vast range of feelings like sadness, loneliness, fear or lack of love towards their baby - and guilt for having such feelings. It is caused mainly due to hormonal imbalance. Chavan stressed that in extreme cases of postpartum depression, the mother suffers from temporary insanity. However, it was Chavan’s argument that the hydrostatic test wasn’t performed during the post-mortem that saved the woman. |
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