Javed Akhtar opened up recently about the public outrage caused by the murders committed by two women, Muskan Rastogi and Sonam Raghuvanshi and said that he has "mixed emotions" over it. The two women murdered their husbands in separate cases, just after being married to them. The veteran lyricist and screenwriter slammed the double standards of people who don’t react in the same way when women face injustice every day
Speaking about the same during an interaction with NDTV, Javed said, “I have mixed emotions on this matter. These two women got there husbands killed and the society is shaken. Then there are women who are burnt alive every other day. If not burnt alive, then the lives that they live with their husbands are worse than any death. They are beaten every day. Then the society is not outraged?”
He called the society “shameless” and added, “Two women were murdered, so they are shaken, but what about the years of injustice that men commit against women? No outrage on that? If they did kill so soon after their marriage then find out whether they were forced into marriage or not. Is it easy for a woman from a small town in India to say no to marriage? Can she say that?”
Sonam murdered her husband, Raja during their honeymoon. His body was found on June 2 in a gorge close to a waterfall. She surrendered after a few days and it came to be known that Sonam conspired with her boyfriend to murder Raja.
In a similar instance, Muskan stabbed her husband along with her lover and chopped his body in pieces to hide it in a drum.
