Rage Over Injustice Poem by Bernedita Rosinha Pinto
Rage Over Injustice
Life endorses dignity and peace to every human being
yet sometimes man in the silence of time endures
mental trauma, anxiety and long-term anguish;
suddenly when the banner of justice unfurls
and dictates a verdict of innocence and acquittal
man gives vent instantly to his concealed agony
and displays his repulsion
to all that he had to encounter;
his tolerance gets depleted
as he chooses to expose his anger,
he demotes the long hands of law delaying justice
for years, for months, for days
and for the sleeplessness he had to face,
he had to suffer, he had to patiently sustain;
there stands no reason, no guilt, no subversion
when a tortured mind so deprived of timely justice
faces the soothing effect of remedies suddenly,
he reacts adversely for the pains he has dealt with
for the bruises he has hidden upon his helplessness;
only those who have encountered such trauma
and mental degradation will fathom the outburst
the negative reaction, the flames of mental torture
which upon the silent mind kept burning until...
those wheels on fire sought
to demonstrate his frustration.
Anwar Raj Guru,40, a native of Sawantwadi, Maharashtra, was arrested on Friday for setting his new motorcycle ablaze outside the court complex at Mapusa on Thursday evening, in protest of justice he said he had received after eight long years of legal battle.
Mapusa police inspector Tushar Lotlikar, said Guru, who resides at Colvale, had purchased a new motorcycle in 2009. However, he and his agent were accused of producing a bogus voter's ID at the regional transport office in Mapusa to get the vehicle registered. The then assistant director of transport had lodged a complaint with the police, which resulted in the arrest of the accused. Although the case was subsequently chargesheeted and went to trial, both the accused were acquitted in May this year.
Guru got possession of his motorcycle from a Panaji-based showroom only on Thursday after paying Rs 22,000 towards road tax. He promptly loaded the brand new vehicle into a goods rickshaw and drove to the Mapusa court complex. In a video that went viral on social media, a man in a helmet, later identified as Guru, was seen parking the motorcycle outside the court complex, dousing it with fuel and setting it on fire before leaving the site. Police traced Guru after obtaining the vehicle's chassis number and arrested him on Friday.
Search for this Title: MAN SETS HIS BIKE ABLAZE AT MAPUSA COURT IN RAGE, to see the video.
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