The case of an Indian man who tortured and killed a man who allegedly raped his daughter has shocked the country – but many are hailing him as a hero. The BBC’s Geeta Pandey met the family. When a 36-year-old father of six told his wife last Friday that he wanted to spend some time chatting with his tenant in their first-floor bedroom and asked her to sleep with the children on the ground floor, she didn’t suspect anything unusual.
But what happened that night turned her world upside down.. In this tiny 6ft by 8ft room, the father – according to his own account given to the police – tied and gagged the tenant, heated a steel spatula on the stove and burned the man’s genitals. The man did not leave the room alive.
The man – who cannot be named for legal reasons – was happy to turn himself into the police because he believed his victim deserved such torture. He believed this man had raped his 13-year-old daughter. The reporting of rape cases in India has gone up hugely – from 24,923 rapes in 2012 to 33,707 last year. It means that every day, 93 rapes were reported. After the story was first reported over the weekend, many described him as “a hero” who “did what he had to do”. Others expressed the hope that he would escape harsh punishment.
What do you think? Is he a hero or a murderer?
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