‘Rise in number of attacks on girls over love proposals a matter of concern’

Directing the Superintendent of Prisons to immediately arrange for counselling of the accused with a psychiatrist, Justice Anand Venkatesh, said, “It will be better if the petitioner is kept inside the jail and the jail authorities start giving this petitioner counselling by experts and bring him to normalcy before he is released from jail.”

“Probably, by the time the petitioner gets out of the jail, he will regret for what he did to the girl with whom he had a love affair,” the judge said while noting that such a trend is on the rise and it is high time the courts put down their foot and bring some sanity in society.

In the instant case, the petitioner was in love with the injured girl Kavya. It seems that the girl had informed him that her parents are looking for a marriage and she is unable to marry him. Thereafter, the petitioner lost his sense of balance and brutally attacked Kavya by stabbing her all over the body including four stab incisions on the left side of the face with one penetrating into the buccal cavity along with stab injuries on the chest and the abdomen.

Observing that the ruthlessness with which the girl has been attacked is apparent from the discharge summary that has been given by the hospital, Justice Anand Venkatesh said, “Obviously, the present case falls within the ambit of a case with serious accusation and very serious gravity of offence. The courts must stop being either merciful or tend to have misplaced sympathies in cases of these nature.”

Also, holding that the injured girl can never return to normalcy and this incident is going to remain deep in the mind of the victim girl till the end of her life, the judge in his order said, “These incidents continue to happen because man thinks that a woman is a chattel and she has to concede to whatever a man demands. This attitude has to be changed and no man has any right to compel any girl tofall in love with him or to marry him.”