Sir —This refers to the article, “No full closure in Nirbhaya case” (May 18) by Shreya Kedia. Recent incidents of brutal and demonic rape and murder from one corner of our country to another — from Goa’s Canacona, to Odisha to Haryana’s Rohtak — uphold the need to impose maximum punishment on every killer-rapist. The mother of the Rohtak victim echoed our helplessness and pointed out about the danger of such rapists coming out of jail after a few years. The judiciary needs to think if it is time to shun the rarest of rare yardstick for three major reasons.
First, every killer-rapist must be hanged to stop the menace. Second, such incidents are always savage and not at all rare. And third, such a yardstick can rob objectivity of a judgement for which lady Justice wears a blindfold.