Kunwar Singh Negi and Maheshwari Negi the distraught parents of 19 year old Kiran Negi gang-raped and brutally killed in February 2012 after being kidnapped from Delhi cannot comprehend what hit them.
In one of the most unusual reversals justice has taken in recent memory, the three accused of the crime who has been sentenced to death by the Dwarka court and later the Delhi High Court were allowed to go scot free last month by the Supreme Court.
A three member Bench of the Supreme Court that gave the shocking judgment blamed the shoddy investigation by Delhi Police for its decision.
Talking to concerned members of a delegation led by former Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat that had met Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju earlier in the day, the parents were hurt and angry.
“How can this happen?Are we to believe that the Delhi High Court had sentenced the culprits to death without any proof?
And what next? We have lost our child ten years back but does that mean that in future no girl is safe in Delhi.How can the judges just let the arrested culprits of such a heinous crime go scot free?” says Kunwar Singh Negi.
The trauma has hit him so hard that he has stopped crying in public now.
The only relief is that the family has been provided security by the Delhi Police at their house since the culprits came out of jail and are roaming free.
The issue is now purely judicial and Kiren Rijiju,who accepted a memorandum from the delegation led by former Uttarakhand CM Harish Rawat that prominently included Uttarakhand senior Vice President of Congress Dhirendra Pratap, parents of late KIRAN Negi, senior journalist Amitabh Srivastava and others demanding justice for Kiran Negi appeared as hurt by these developments as anyone else.
He agreed like all of us in the delegation that injustice had been done to the 19 year old Kiran Negi and this has to be rectified.
On the new initiatives he had taken as Law Minister to deliver justice to the vulnerable and the weak Rijju declared that he was very keen that fast track courts to deliver justice, especially to children and women, deliver judgments in three months.
Asked about the slow conviction rate in POCSO he assured that this was also among his top priorities and results would be visible soon. Meanwhile, according to the private secretary to Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi, the former union HRD minister has, handed over the letter addressed to union home minister Amit Shah to bring the culprits of late KIRAN Negi to justice ( gallows).
The letter was handed over to Dr. Joshi by GHS President earlier and the other day the same was handed to HM when he had come to meet Dr. Joshi at his house. Dr. Joshi brief the minister and asked him to do the needful in this regard.
