{"id":1806,"date":"2005-07-05T16:21:10","date_gmt":"2005-07-05T21:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=1806"},"modified":"2005-07-05T14:27:10","modified_gmt":"2005-07-05T19:27:10","slug":"sometimes_prima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/05\/sometimes_prima\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes Primal Justice Swings the Other Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If it weren&#8217;t for the rash of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/001729.html\">punishing the victim&#8221;<\/a> stories of late, this story would seem just plain medieval.   But with that thoroughly depressing context, I suppose it&#8217;s just sadly bittersweet &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/morenews\/showmorestory.asp?slug=Father+killed+for+raping+daughter&#038;id=75456\">Primitive justice: Father killed for raping daughter<\/a> &#8211;<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>Manju was raped by her father, Rajvir repeatedly for the last 6 months and even though her mother and brothers knew about it, they were helpless.\n\n&#8230;Fed up with this daily abuse, one evening when Rajvir dragged Manju into a room, her mother called her uncles for help.\n\nThe mother however, could not have anticipated what happened next. In a bid to protect Manju&#8217;s honour, the uncles beat Rajvir to death.\n\n&#8230;The police have arrested both men on charges of murder and booked them under IPC section 302&#8230;In a country where it takes years to solve a rape case and where the rapist often goes scot free, this was an instance where the victim&#8217;s family took the law into their own hands and meted out what they called justice.<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Sigh.<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If it weren&#8217;t for the rash of &#8220;punishing the victim&#8221; stories of late, this story would seem just plain medieval. But with that thoroughly depressing context, I suppose it&#8217;s just sadly bittersweet &#8211; Primitive justice: Father killed for raping daughter &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/05\/sometimes_prima\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}