Javed Akhtar reacts to Sonam and Muskan murder cases

Veteran lyricist and screenwriter Javed Akhtar has weighed successful connected the nationalist choler surrounding the brutal execution cases of Raja Raghuvanshi and Saurabh Rajput, allegedly orchestrated by their wives Sonam Raghuvanshi and Muskan Rastogi, respectively.

In a caller interview, Akhtar admitted helium felt “mixed emotions” astir the nationalist effect to these cases.‘Why nary outrage erstwhile women are burnt alive?’Commenting connected the selective sensitivity of society, Akhtar pointed retired a stark treble standard. “These 2 women got their husbands killed and the nine is shaken. Then determination are women who are burnt live each different day... They are beaten each day. Then the nine is not outraged?” helium asked.He argued that portion unit by women stirs daze and condemnation, the persistent maltreatment faced by countless women crossed the state is often met with silence.‘Society is shameless erstwhile it comes to men’s crimes’Akhtar didn’t clasp backmost arsenic helium slammed the hypocrisy. According to him, erstwhile men person committed brutalities against women for generations, the outrage has been constricted oregon wholly missing. “Bada besharam hai samaaj.

Do auroton ne execution kiye toh chauk para... aur jo mard uspe zaarti kar rahe hain uspe uski joo nahi rengti,” helium told NDTV, calling retired the societal bias.He besides urged investigators to look into whether the women progressive were coerced into their marriages. He questioned whether young women successful tiny towns adjacent person the autonomy to accidental nary to matrimonial arrangements, hinting astatine deeper societal pressures astatine play.

Background connected the duplicate execution casesOn June 2, Raja Raghuvanshi’s assemblage was discovered successful a gorge adjacent Cherrapunji, Meghalaya.

His wife, Sonam Raghuvanshi, aboriginal surrendered to the police. Investigations revealed that she allegedly conspired with her person Raj Kushwaha and hired 3 men to termination her hubby conscionable 2 weeks into their honeymoon.In different chilling case, Muskan Rastogi is accused of murdering her hubby Saurabh Rajput with the assistance of her lover, Sahil Shukla, successful March. The duo allegedly dismembered his assemblage and concealed the remains wrong a cement-filled drum.