Man dies after son held for 'kidnap'

A 73-year-old man died of cardiac arrest after his son was arrested by Bangalore police for allegedly kidnapping and marrying a girl, a few months ago.

Police have given the name of dead as Somashekhar, a resident of Mooranadu, near Madikeri.

Deviprasad, the son of Somashekhar, met Ramya, a resident of Bangalore, through a social networking site eight months ago and they fell in love. Ramya’s family was against their marriage.

But the couple tied the knot at Ashwini Temple in Madikeri in May and also registered their marriage on June 7. They stayed together for three months.

Missing complaint

On August 28, Deviprasad lodged a complaint at Madikeri Rural police station stating that Ramya had gone missing and suspected that her parents could have kidnapped her.

However, Ramya’s father,  who is a jeep driver for a senior police officer in Bangalore, lodged a kidnap case against Deviprasad at Siddapura police station (Bangalore) on September 1.

In the wee hours of September 2, Ramya’s family members along with a few policemen barged into the house of Deviprasad.

They allegedly manhandled Deviprasad and pushed his father, who had diabetes and blood pressure, before arresting the former.

Somashekar, who suffered cardiac arrest was rushed to a private hospital in Madikeri. Shocked by his son’s arrest, he died of heart attack in the wee hours of Wednesday.

Released on parole

Deviprasad, who was arrested and taken to Bangalore, was produced before a court and was sent to judicial custody. It is learnt that Deviprasad has been released on parole following the death of his father.

Mysore Range IGP Ramachandra Rao said an impartial and comprehensive inquiry will be conducted into the incident.

Kamal Pant, Additional Commissioner (Law and Order), Bangalore, said that stringent action would be initiated against any officer found guilty in the incident.

H S Revanna, DCP (South) the divisional DCP under whose jurisdiction Siddapura police station lies, said that the Madikeri police had registered a case over the death of Somashekhar. case.

He said that they were waiting for the autopsy report and also the investigation report of Madikeri police who are trying to establish whether Siddapura police really assaulted the elderly man leading to his eventual death.

Strict action

He said that if the investigations revealed the involvement of policemen in Somashekar’s death, strict action will be taken against them. Siddapura police refused to comment on the issue.
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/355389/man-dies-son-held-kidnap.html 

Ensure women's safety = Ignore men's safety?

Recently Maharashtra Home Minister R R Patil assured all women journalists that the Government would provide them special security when they are out on their job.

Sounds like a populist measure dreamt up without considering the root cause of why crime in the society is on the rise.

Go through the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report which states that ‘crimes against men are increasing rapidly' and more than 75% of murders reported in this country are against men.

Take a look at the Murder rate of Men vs Women:

Murder: http://ncrb.nic.in/CII-2009-NEW/cii-2009/Table%203.3.pdf

Male Victims-24,441, Female Victims-8,718 Total Victims-33,159

Culpabale Homicide Not Amounting To Murder (Sec.304 and 308 IPC) During 2009

http://ncrb.nic.in/CII-2009-NEW/cii-2009/Table%203.4.pdf

Male Victims=3,529, Female Victims=753 Total Victims=4282

Now we wonder, can a society provide safety to women, while men themselves are not safe? The NCRB report summarized the data of crimes against women and children, but they did not provide any details of crimes against men.

Since 2005, we have been providing the crime and murder data compiled by the NCRB to the Government, but they fed it to the bins as media never showed any concern over the safety of men, which is a need of society.

If you go through the report of "Committee to protect Journalists " and click on Gender, it clearly mentions that 97% of the journalists killed were men.

On August 24th, a Journalist from UP, Mr. Akhilesh, was killed. But there was hardly any protest from the journalists associations or any candlelight vigils by common people of society.

I am really not surprised given the biased approach prevalent in every institution. We have death penalty for murder, but the cases are increasing day by day. It is evident beyond reasonable doubt that increasing the punishment alone won’t help in reducing crime.

When someone commits a crime, what are the chances that he gets caught? Currently the number stands at 10 to 15 per cent on an average.Today the police can trap any innocent law abiding citizen in criminal cases but fails to catch the real criminal for months/years.

Once a criminal is caught the law punishes him for 10 to 12 years and if someone wants to prove his innocence it takes 10 to 12 years. So, the root cause is the failure of our criminal justice system and the police.

More stringent laws mean more power to police/judiciary, which could lead to abuse of power and more corruption. The failure of police to provide safety to Indian men never gets highlighted.

All women activists/media are running behind the women safety issue, like in a desert desperately trying to find a mirage.

History itself states that where men are not safe, dreaming of safety for women is nothing but fooling yourself.

Safety/violence is never a gender issue. Media friends must also understand the pain of a woman when she loses her brother or son or father.

 

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