Justice and redemption

Justice and redemption

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1. Krishna Kumar, former director of NCERT, has analyses the role of society and importance of justice in child protection.

Important Analysis

2. The delivery of justice to a childhood is different from the conventional idea of justice. Childhood is a formative and vulnerable period of life which makes the justice delivery difficult.
3. It has been recognised all over the world that nothing is tougher to leave behind than sexual assault in early life.
4. The rape of small girls on the scale at which it is currently taking place, especially in the north, signifies a breakdown of the ethical order of common living.
5. Incidents of rape of small girls have been reported from cities as well as villages, suggesting a much wider crisis.
6. When rape has been committed by a person who enjoys fame and power, justice may bring the victim a sense of vindication.

• This  happened in a recent case against a famous ‘godman’. Victim’s victory at the level of a local court is impressive.

7. In kathua rape case, National Commission for Protection of Child Rights has forbidden the mention of victims name to protect the dignity of girl’s parents.
8. Shifting of kathua rape and murder case from J&K to Punjab has raised the hope for justice.
9. Meaning of justice for child carries two kinds of value
10. Value of deterrence: If the rapists and murderers of a child go untracked and unpunished, this might encourage the tendency to commit such crimes.
11. Recognition of a child’s right to justice: This recognises children as beneficiaries of universally applicable human and civic rights. By punishing those who rape and kill, the judiciary posthumously imparts the significance to their lives that they ought to have received as children.
12. Issues raised by kathua case

• Such violence impacted the protective fabric of society.
• Impact the child as they feel insecure and unprotected
• Parents alone cannot protect a child.

11. The responsibility to protect children is embedded in the very idea of society. When a child faces brutality, in or outside the family, society’s contract with its own spirit is violated. This cannot be redeemed with judicial punishment only.
12. Krishna kumar, find the reason for such crisis in

• Culture and new technological environment.
• Hatred for the weak and treatment of rejection of their right as human ethos
• Loss of collective self-awareness of society.

13. He suggest society to improve its own apparatus of security and protection of children. Demand for justice for victims should be raised by media and common people.