(1) There is an attempt from certain circles to use the outrage against killing #Aditi, the pregnant young elephant in Kerala -as a campaign point to get Safoora Zargar released from custody. With all due respects to Ms Zargar, this comparison is as outrageous as #Aditi's murder.
(2) Ms Zargar, has a right to dignity and facilities and humane treatment, like all undertrials or arrested persons deserve from the police. Instead of making an exceptional case, police reform shd be made a general campaign that benefits the thousands of hapless ppl in custody.
(3) #Aditi's case has nothing in parallel to Ms Zargar. Note that our outrage on #Aditi's murder is not just because she was pregnant, but because she was killed deliberately and deceptively in a most sadistic way using her trust or hunger and isolation.
(4) To be equivalent, Ms Zargar wd have to be without family/friends/lawyers/"civil society"/activists/political and NGO support when she was nabbed, fed an explosive diet that fatally destroyed her mouth and upper respiratory tract, and left to die slowly without medical care.
(5) To be equivalent, #Aditi wd hv to hv allegedly promoted potentially violent campaigns and demonstrations against fellow elephants, (yes the accusation by fellow elephants and its refutation by #Aditi will need tests in a court of elephants), confined to an elephant jail,
(6) provided elephant food not laced with explosives or poisons meant to fatally injure and slowly kill, deprived of all medical attention, not chased from one part of the elephant jail to another as she sought relief from pain and shelter.
(7) Ms Zargar faces none of the horrible treatments meted out to #Aditi, and unlike #Aditi, she has recourse to both medical and legal facilities fully geared to come to her rescue, activists to carry on the campaign on her behalf.
(8) #Aditi died at the hands of sadists, looking for food in what shd hv been her natural home, her needs, desires simple& limited - she didnt plan any political campaign or seen/accused of trying to organize violent protests -and she had none of the support enjoyed by Ms Zargar.
(9) From Hindu view, however in practice we may hv deviated, animals hv a right to dignity& protection frm humans (more so as they don't grow food). What was done to #Aditi is unacceptable, there is no parallel with Ms. Zargar. Its an insult to both to make their cases equivalent
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