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Roshni's First Case

One week later, it was finally the day they had been waiting for since years. The day Roshni would fight her first court case as a lawyer. Aman seemed to be more excited than her. He woke up earlier than his alarm and lay in bed thinking of his love wearing the black robe and arguing. The thought sent shivers down his spine and there were butterflies in his stomach. He got up, got dressed for the day and went down for breakfast. Everyone noticed the glow on his face and his smile which was not stopping at all. He had his breakfast and rushed to the court where Roshni was waiting for him.
       She was pacing around and stopped when he called her. He hugged her and said "I'm so excited Roshni. I can't wait to see you fight. You're going to do great." His words had the effect of a naankhatai taken straight out of the oven for Roshni. She visibly calmed down and smiled.
       Soon it was time for the case to begin. The opposition lawyer was a man named Sanjay Khanna. He was a misogynistic, narrow minded person who believed women can never be equal to men. When Roshni stepped inside the room and went to the desk he followed her and said "hi. I heard you are fresh off the boat." "Sorry" asked Roshni confused. "I mean that you're new right?" "Oh yes, I am. This is my first case." He smirked before continuing "well I must tell you. You chose to fight the wrong case. Watch me win this. Anyway it's good to loose. At least you can see and try to learn how to win. That's the least a woman can do as they will never be able to defeat a man. After loosing to me today you may change your mind and decide to get married to some guy and have his children. That is a woman's job." Roshni's blood started boiling as she hated these kind of people in general. She fisted her hands and tried to control her anger. She took a deep breath and said "we'll see." The judge walked in and everyone stood up.
Both the clients were called to the stand. Roshni's client was a 27 year old lady, Nima Sharma and Sanjay's client was Nima's husband, Suresh Kapadia. The judge instructed for the trial to begin. Before starting Roshni looked at Aman and he showed her a thumbs up sign. Roshni began "your honour, my client Nima Sharma wants a divorce from her abusive husband Suresh Kapadia. He is not a good person and has sexually abused her by raping her several times and has threatened to kill her if she told anyone." "Objection your honour. How can a husband rape his own wife. A husband has right over his wife. For a wife, her husband is God and whatever she gets from him is like his present to her." Roshni interrupted him in the middle. "Your honour please forgive my opposition lawyer for his lack of knowledge." Turning to Sanjay she said "Mr. Sanjay if you don't already know, according to the Oxford dictionary, the definition of rape is "the crime of forcing somebody to have sex when they do not want it or are not able to agree to it." There are no conditions in the middle stating it's not rape if the person is her husband. Rape is rape and there is no difference if it's a random man doing it to a woman or a husband doing it to his wife." Sanjay lowered his head in shame and on the other hand Aman felt his chest bursting with pride as he looked at her arguing for justice.
After a while it was time for the judge to say his decision regarding the case. "I announce Ms Nima Sharma and Mr. Suresh Kapadia as divorced and the court sentences Mr. Suresh Kapadia to three years in jail for sexually assaulting his wife. The court is adjourned." Roshni felt like she was on top of the world. She had just won the first case she had ever fought. Aman ran to her and hugged her after everyone was gone. "You did it Roshni." She smiled and said "we did it. Thank you for giving me confidence." They continued hugging each other unknown to the fact that someone was watching them in anger vowing to take revenge.