“No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they’re pretty, even if they aren’t ”
-Marilyn Monroe
But, she was pretty in her own ways, those kohl lined eyes perfected her even more. She was like a fresh dew drop which was curtly swiped away by the sun. Her soul lurked through years for justice. She was considered obscene, she was questioned. She was Aarushi, a teeming girl of fourteen, killed by her own parents.
Dated back to 2008, she was murdered brutally, along with the domestic help, Hemraj. The arrowhead of conviction was pointed to her parents. A case was slapped but this double murder mystery seemed a tough nut to crack. Piles of files and lies tried to obscure the case.
Lurking in the corridors of prejudice, she had to wait five long years for justice. November 2013, the benchmark judgement was made, her own parents were held guilty. Illustrations like honour killing, sudden provocation and what not was produced.
The fact that surprised me the most was how could a mother, how much stimulating the provocation might be, kill her own child. This act suits so well to the saying ‘ decisions taken in sheer intuitive impulse can be destructive’.
However, some believe that this fancy verdict story was yarned in to curtain the failure of the top investigation agencies to solve this sensitive case. The greatest irony that seems to me was how this entertainment-craved society wanted to turn the story into films and soap operas despite the fact that a young life was nipped in the bud……
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