Vishnu Karle

                   Illustative picture only   Today I am going to narrate you a true story of a case that I witnessed in the Latur Juvenile Court.  Since last seven months I have been working with the District Legal Services Authority in Latur.  My duty is handling cases at juvenile court, CJM, jmfc and visiting prisoners at Latur District Jail. On 20th January 2024 it was around 01:40 pm. I was going to have my lunch when I received a phone call from the juvenile court. A juvenile was apprehended by police on the allegations of rape on his own minor sister. I reached the juvenile court and met juvenile's mother. The case was of incestuous relationship of two minor brother and sister.  I could see a desparate mother trying to save his son who committed terrible sins.   A 14 year old girl was hospitalized in Government Hospital by her mother. Doctor found victim 7 months pregnant and asked mother whether she is married, to which mother replied she is not married. Pregnancy was almos

                             Major William Sleeman People living in this well governed, modern state today cannot even imagine the condition that the country was during the 19th century in colonial India.  Those were terrible times.  Theft, dacoity, fraud, assault and murder were par for the course.  In those days,  a man hesitated less before killing a fellow human than he did before swatting a mosquito.  It was from Lord Bentinck's time that laws became very strict.  Major William Sleeman assumed charge of the office of Commissioner for the Suppression of Thuggee and Dacoity in early 1839. He is best known for his work from the 1830s in suppressing the organized criminal gangs known as Thuggee.  During the operations that he supervised, more than 1400 Thugs were hanged or transported for the life.   In 19th century colonial India, two prevalent forms of criminal activity were thuggee and dacoity. Thuggee was a practice which involved criminal gangs looting, robbing, and eventuall