'Animal Instinct' scores over 'Human Instinct' in Court

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It is still a shameful fact that for some weird reasons our society

has been finding sadistic pleasure for generations to brand any

heinous crime of human beings as an 'animal instinct'.

Calling animal names at each other for example.

 

Good that the court showed some respect to animals this time.

 

I am sure now the Hindi names of 'PIGLETS' and 'PUPS' will also be

accorded some respect by the entertainment industry as well like the

Bollywood etc, who have been making fun of animals by using their

names for slangs to hit out verbal abuses on screen. Making it

unnecessarily popular.

But all this seems to be coming to an end with such actions of the

Courts here.

 

So the next time anyone calls out animal names at you, reach out for

the judgment of the court below.

 

Azam Siddiqui

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Link: http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1082046

 

Rapists are worse than wild animals, says HC

Rakesh Bhatnagar

Sunday, February 25, 2007 23:06 IST

 

 

 

NEW DELHI: Expressing shock over a Christian missionary raping a minor

girl in the presence of three other girl students, the Delhi High

Court has said that the conduct of the accused could not be compared

with `an animal' as the latter `behave in a more sensible manner'.

 

Upholding the trial court order sentencing Father Shepherd with seven

years imprisonment and fine for raping a girl student 12 years ago,

Justice Shiv Narain Dhingra rejected the rapist's appeal.

 

Expressing shock at the behaviour of the accused who had been taking

tuition of weak students, the court observed that it might " look

strange that the rape was committed in the presence of two young

children, one aged three years and another aged five years, but

strange are the ways of life " .

 

" When sexual passions overpower a man, he can fall to any extent. I am

not using the words `animal instinct' because that would in fact not

understand the animal behaviour. There is no reason to disbelieve the

testimony of the victim, " Justice Dhingra observed.

 

" Animals behave in a more sensible manner than the man in such

matters'', he added. Recalling a Supreme Court judgment in 1998, the

judge observed that " no woman of honour will falsely accuse another of

committing rape since she sacrifices thereby what is dearest to her " .

" It will be appropriate at this stage to bear in mind that in

assessing the testimonial potency of the victim's version, the human

psychology and behavioural probability must be looked into, " he added.

 

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has held that mental harassment by wife

is sufficient cause for a husband to seek a decree of divorce.

 

" Physical violence is not absolutely essential to constitute cruelty

and a consistent course of conduct inflicting immeasurable mental

agony and torture may well constitute cruelty within the meaning of

Section 10 of the Act, " a bench noted. It passed the observations

while dismissing an appeal filed by a woman Mayadevi challenging the

divorce decree granted by the trial court to her husband Jagdish Prasad.

 

Prasad had complained of constant mental harassment by his wife from

the time they were married in 1993.