Everyone knows about a girl being raped and killed, by a beggar near Palakkad district in Kerala. I do not want to use her name, because it has been used more than it should have been by the media. Cheap thrilling articles about how she screamed and ran inside the train and no on lookers helped, how the neighboring houses heard her screams and none went to rescue, it was debated about, shown around and wrote about. And like every other incident that gets reported in our media, this also lacked its entertaining value after a few days, and it is been shut down.
On a search, based on curiosity, about where is this alleged rapist/murderer now, an interesting article was found. There is a web page called Haindava Keralam and that seems to be the only page (according to the limited Google search) reporting this interesting fact about a rapist. What they throw out is based on one of the first reports about the incident in the news paper Mathrubhumi, dated 4th of February. This is the clip below (courtesy http://rajeev.posterous.com/soumyas-rape-murder-evangelist-charly-thomas )
What an astonishing news!! When raping and killing loses its fame and importance obviously the next option is religion, all of them can be put in one box after all.
But let this be dissected logically. If you are given a piece of news like this, what would your reasoning be? A person who earns his living (!!) by begging, socio-economically backward, must be very low in education has converted himself into a Christian and changed his name. Do you think he actually went through all the legal, mundane processes needed to have that name changed. If he has a birth certificate (not likely a fact) and his real name on that is Govindachamy, but now he likes to refer himself as Charly Thomas, when the Police came to arrest him what do you think he would have told his name as?? It is highly likely that he said his name is Charly, and the scavenger media reported it blatantly. After further investigation Police must have evidently found his legal name is Govindachami and everyone started using it. But one should ask, why a daily like Mathrubhumi did not report about such a mistake in the name change. That is where the Hindu blood starts boiling, when the Nithyanandas start pointing at Thomas Kotturs.
This is the root article and one should read the comments beneath the main article:
Have you noticed it is been posted under the section Communist/Cult agenda !!!
Whatever!!
Why this is posted by us is to ask two questions to you:
1. Does it really matter to look into the religion of a criminal in a democratic country where our Law is not written based on any religion.
2. Why hasn't he punished yet, or if he has, why is it not being reported?? What is our Judiciary waiting for to sentence the punishment?
Towards the first question, though it is asked to you, everyone has a chance to answer, why should any human being follow any religion. The motive to start believing in any religious view is what really matters. Is it because the religion will make you rich? powerful? will provide you with free food, woman and weapons?
or is it because you found that in one religion they spread the message of love, humanity and peace of mind that you want to follow that for a better living and a better self!!!! HELLO!!! What on earth is humanity, peace of mind and love towards your fellow beings??? That point of any religion stopped in the time of Rama, Jesus, Buddha, and Mohammad.
So instead of wasting time on throwing stones at each other, debate on what is the utmost punishment the criminal should get and work towards buying that for him. But that is not interesting, is it? Or have you attained such a level in spirituality from where you are predicting that a religious conversion changed a 'sadhu' beggar to a rapist murderer?? Would the rape have been any less frightening if the rapist is a Hindu? Would the killing be any less painful if he was a Muslim? Did the girl really die because the murderer was a Christian?? Which god will forgive faster? which prayer will be effective faster, after a rape and murder when you pray on knees bowing down, or kneeling or rolling around idols??? WHY WOULD A CRIMINAL'S RELIGION MATTER?? It is a pity that our democratic Judiciary has no law to punish him with the same painful and brutal death that undeserving young girl went through.
Towards the second question, which was the main concern and which lead to this article, WHERE IS GOVINDACHAMI/CHARLY THOMAS NOW?? Is he waiting for a punishment in some Jail?? WHY THERE IS SUCH A DELAY IN PUNISHING HIM?????
Condolence for that family, who is at the losing end, whose lost is forever. No one can give back their daughter, no Christian no Hindu or no Muslim. At least Justice should be shown, for a future without such chaamis and thomases.
