Man Stabs Woman On Busy Streets, Amidst Public; What Happened To Human Conscience?

The world is becoming an unsafe space to live in. And this is especially true for women. As women, we cannot think to walk alone on a deserted street. There is always this fear of someone following us or someone abducting us. But who would have thought that being on a busy street also doesn’t spare women from fatal crimes?

Man Stabs Woman In The Public View; What Happened To Human Conscience?

In Bengaluru, a 28-year-old man jilted in love and stabbed a 25-year-old woman, former lover, in full public outside her office in east Bengaluru. He stabbed her over 16 times until she breathed her last.

According to reports, both were in love with each other. However after the girl’s family rejected their marriage proposal because the man was from another caste, the woman parted ways with him. This enraged the man. He went to his former lover’s office, waited outside for her and had an argument. Post that, he took out his knife and stabbed her 16 times.

Why can’t men accept rejection from women? Why is the male ego too fragile to get affected by a woman who expresses her choice?

Many cases of jilted lovers killing the woman who rejected the proposal have been reported. For example, a stalker from Jharkhand set a woman on fire while she was sleeping because she rejected his romantic advances. The Class 12 student succumbed to the burn injuries that she sustained from the attack. Before dying, she demanded strict action against her stalker.

What was shocking about this case is the smile that the perpetrator had on his face while being arrested. It seemed that the crime he committed was not serious enough for him to feel guilty about his actions or at least be intimidated by the law of the land. The way he walked with his head held high despite being accused of such a gruesome crime makes one wonder how some men see their thirst for vengeance against women who turned them down as a righteous cause.

In another similar case of rejection of a proposal, a woman was killed by one-sided over in full public view in Gujarat.

What do we conclude from these cases? Are men not afraid of anything-law, people or morality especially when it comes to their vengeance against women? Men do not care about the consequences of their actions and do it out of spite at the moment when their conscience says that the other person is a woman and so she should be taught a lesson.

Moreover, this also shows the apathy of the public who are not interested in what happens around them. They can leave a woman wailing in pain, they can leave a woman being beaten up in public. But taking action, opposing and saving is something that everyone is afraid to do. “It is not our personal matter”. “We will get caught in the complications of the police investigation,” people say these and more when it comes to saving someone in the public.

Just imagine if you were in the place of the person subjected to crime, how would you feel when eyes are staring at you but not helping you? Wouldn’t you want other people to show humanity and help you in your difficult times?

Similarly, it is our duty as humans to protect others and speak for each other. We need to be empathetic towards each other so that one day there will be no fear left in society.

Suggested Reading: Why Can’t Indian Men Take “No” For An Answer?

Views expressed are the author's own.