Back in the days when i was an 8th grader, we used to play cricket, have little parties, watch tv, and all that boring stuff. Apparently, that is passe now…
An 8th standard kid(yes that would be about 13 years old) in a Gurgaon school shot to death a classmate. In cold blood – from close and not once but four times. Just how gruesome is that?
There have been instances in American schools where kids have stormed the schools killing multiple students. But this would be the first such case i can recall in India.
Makes me wonder – this kid (the murderer) is a little boy. What sort of laws apply to them? Do they go to Jails or to some childrens’ homes sort of place? Can they be executed for such a horrible act?
Or should the father who gave a gun to his 13 year old toddler to commit a murder be hung to death?
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I guess they’re gonna put the kids into the juvenile court for some years. And I’m pretty sure nothing’s gonna happen to the parents, they’re rich people and right now they’re even refusing to accept that the father did own a gun.
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The child stole the father’s gun although that doesn’t make the father’s crime lesser.
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This isn’t like the US. This was not random, it was revenge. Revenge is common in India. Violent crime and murder is rampant in India which I have written about on my blog. Adoloscents are often involved in crime, but this time the kid was from an elite school and that is why he got publicity. Also he had a gun because his father owned one. Otherwise knives are used.
This whole thing has been hyped up by the media beyond belief. They hype up things related to upper classes, celebrities etc.
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Nita – revenge is very often the motive for a crime, but that doesnt make the crime any lesser.
Little children usually take revenge by a little kick on the butt, or maybe a proper beating, but cold blooded murder? If a 13 year old commits murder for revenge, i would consider it a huge deal. This sort of a thing is not justified at all, whether it is an upper class kid or not.
I really dont know much about the media coverage of this issue, but i sure can imagine their going overboard; the news channels surprise me sometimes by their ineptitude
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Nita: The motive for most of the school shootings in the US is also something like ‘being famous’ or ‘replicating and trumping a past shooting’. Those are no worse or no better motives than ‘revenge’. So this is exactly like the US.
I think the reason for this being covered so much is the use of the gun, which makes it rarer. Ordinary people have access to knives, not everyone has access to guns. That makes it newsworthy, coupled with the fact that the shooter was a kid.
Now to AD’s question – what will they do and if the father is liable. I think if the Indian judicial system worked, the father would be done for negligence. Kids would likely be tried in a juvenile court and sent to a juvenile jail or correctional facility of some kind. This case however will be watched closely by many, so the judicial machinery may have to move, and move swiftly.
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AD: What do we know? That the father would be charged for negligence is exactly what is happening…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7141927.stm
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AD: Sorry, forgot to add that irrespective of who was seeking revenge on whom, I bet the case will now go forward, if it does, on the basis of the dead child’s parents seeking revenge on the other two children and their families.
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Well in Canada they have three levels of age categories for this
1-12 ) House arrest, transfer to a foster parent.
13-17 ) Juvenile Correctional Facility
18+ ) Regular Prison
So here he would be locked up with other kids in a live in school.
I would think that the parents should be charged with manslaughter and given 2-5 years
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