The 21-year old NLSIU Bangalore student who was allegedly raped near the law school’s campus by eight men in October has discontinued her studies at NLSIU and returned to her native city, according to the New Indian Express.
Dr H Chandrashekar, the Bangalore Medical College’s head of department of psychiatry, was treating her. He told the paper that she had very severe trauma and post traumatic stress disorder and could also have been “under pressure from parents or peers to discontinue and go back”.
The paper also reported that Judge K B Sangannanavar at the Additional City Civil & Sessions Court has begun trying the six accused — Ramu, Doddairayya, Shivanna, Maddura, Yeleyayya and Irayya of Ramangaram and Mattaradodigudda on Wednesday, exactly six months after the incident. The trial of the juvenile also started at the Juvenile Justice Court on June 6.
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How can they be so arrogant
And .....I don't think the article necessarily suggests that her "peers and parents" were insensitive or arrogant. It merely says she COULD have been "pressurised" by them into going back home.......which could have very well been born out of their own trauma and anxiety about having their physically battered and clinically depressed daughter staying all alone so far away and dealing with the whole thing without support. May be they feared she was not gonna be okay being by herself so far away and wanted the reassurance of being able to take care of her at close quarters? It is simply WRONG to judge people whom we don't even know without even knowing enough fact, in this trifling fashion.....and unfortunately, it seems to be becoming the trend in our country these days......to criticise and judge so easily without focusing on the REAL issues.
Focus your anger instead on how such crimes can affect the psyche of the victim (and her family) even months and months after the incident. THAT is the real issue here....
You know Kian, you guys are now becoming gossip mongers, I would humbly request that you stop from doing all this!!
Parents???? highly unlikely..
So... its obvious
Oh, and on your use of 'categorical', may I please refer you to the following image:
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[p.s. can we post images? There's a button and everything but I have never seen images before here]
Strongly suggest that this news piece be deleted so as to spare all an unnecessary debate about an unfortunate incident and a similar consequence.
The incident has been reported, so all know about it. Job Done. Having a futile discussion which has tremendous potential to fly tangential to the real issue (considering how a whole lot of readers of LI chose to do so), will only rub salt to the ex-students wounds (in the event she is reading this).
Journalism at times needs to be sensitive to reporting repercussions (by exercise of discretion and some discernment). I will not say this for general media. But in case of LI or limited readership portals (taking the liberty to assume, limited readership being refereed to as the legal community), yes. While being so, such portals/publications slightly take the nature of a private circulation portals (for the legal community). Therefore, in this case, to my mind, it becomes important to also take into account ramifications of your story (importantly because it relates to a personal incident).
On a separate note, relying on precedent where you have exercised virtues of discretion and discernment bigwig partners of bigwig firms have been talked about in a manner which would have not been to the best of their liking, prudence calls upon you to have a similar standard.
I am not questioning your intent. Just commenting on a not so wise choice for a story.
This is my personal message to LI. You may chose to publish it or not. However, do seriously consider the suggestion.
BR,
Scooter
And shouldn't it also be permissible to ask the question: could the NLS administration or the student body have done more in this case to enable her to stay, or was the damage done by perpetrators, the media and others beyond curing?
I am not saying that any of this is NLS students' faults, but it would perhaps be valuable to hear some genuine reflection on this or advice on what was done, and what can be done if, god forbid, this were to happen on another campus, workplace or elsewhere.
We can moderate any responses to such threads very strictly, so it wouldn't degenerate into NLS-bashing, as arguably we should have done earlier in this thread...
Warm regards,
Kian
Kian - please consider this strongly. The comments do not deserve publication, notwithstanding any policy of tolerance. LI has done nothing wrong, but deleting the comments will be reasonable and humane.
None of you are aware of anything that is going through the mind of the victim, or the fact about law school. All the students, I assure you each and every one of us have done our best(in our little ways) to help her to move on. But unfortunately such an event leaves you traumatised for life, and I pray that she moves on and finds more peace back home. I pray that she will get justice and hope you all understand that is has got nothing to do with us or her parents. It what she chose and hopefully she will come back someday to NLS and complete her degree.