Narsimma: Well, what has the victim to say?
Sarakka: They too must face the firing squad like Narsi Reddy, and for the same reason.
Yellaiah: Only after they undergo the pain of seeing the gang-bang of their daughters.
Gathering: Yah, Yah.
Madanna: What’s Renakka’s take on this?
Renuka: That would surely humiliate these thick-skinned but at the same time it amounts to punishing the innocent. Thus, violating their daughters is a crime against the girls and not a punishment for their lecherous fathers.
Sarakka: Still they deserve to die, don’t they?
Renuka: Won’t death make it easy for them. Why can’t we imagine their life reminiscing over their humiliation? So it serves them well if they’re spared to suffer. Moreover, putting them to death means punishing their wives for no fault of theirs.
Madanna: But how’s that?
Renuka: Why, didn’t these rascals’ roving eye deny them as wives? And don’t we know what a shabby treatment awaits them as widows? If we kill their men, won’t it be a double jeopardy for them?
Madanna: But if let loose, won’t they stray again?
Renuka: Not so if bailed on fidelity bonds.
Madanna: What if they jump bail?
Renuka: After all this, they are no fools not to see the writing on the wall.
Srisailam: What have the guilty to say?
[All three in turns]: I swear that I’ll not stray again.
Madanna: They may be let off but on parole.
[All three in one voice]: Thank you peddanna, Thank you all.
Narsimma: Not before spending a night or two in the banduldoddi.Let them have a taste of their own medicine.
Srisailam: Why should the cattle there endure these rotten souls? Surely it makes a case of cruelty to animals, won’t it?
Madanna: True, but the cattle might have its own scores to settle with these fiends. Let the filthy five spend five days with them.
Sarakka: Chief, but if ever it comes to light that these eyed a dalitwoman, nay any woman, why not we cut off their staffs. Won’t that take the stuffing out of these buggers, and justify their women sleeping with dalit men in full view of these eunuchs.
Madanna: Let that be the caveat of the dalit adalat. If they misuse the reprieve, then it’s death for them without further trial.
[Even as their faces show relief all the guilty five bow their heads in shame.]
[Enter: Mallanna with Yadagiri and Maisamma, followed by two armed annalu.]
Madanna: Anna, are the guilty brought to book?