How is such an action going to help the community or avoidance of such acts in the society? Good that the Dalit individual is going to make a living now, but has the root of the problem been dealt with? Who is really happy with such a response from the government? Is that all Mr. Bhotmange really looking for? Not at all. Creamy layers of society still treat Dalits in a very humiliating manner in rural and backward locations of India is an undeniable truth. First not listening to victim's complaint when nobody was really knowing about and then trying to pamper by giving a job after voice was raised shows double standards of the government. Does the government want people from Dalit community to raise voice everytime something happens with them in society? Is it not the responsibility of the law and order, the government to act out of compassion towards victim and act against the assailants like a knee-jerk response? God, save the poors of this country from those who are powerful.
A job offer to a family member is not enough. Definitely, a job will financially support his family, but what the expectation here is that the perpetrators are brought to justice and served the worst possible punishment under the law. What this will satisfy is:
1. It will ensure that law enforcement agencies of the state are alive and kicking - something which is hard to believe these days.
2. This will work as a deterrent for all such miscreants within the society, who are used to committment of such henious crimes and still walk free.
3. It will give the Bhotmange family - and mant other such families - a glimmer of hope to live on, a system that they can rely on and would like to be a part of.
Let us rise above communal and racial prejudices and ensure that the law is supreme and is universal to everyone, irrespective of cast, creed and race.
