Honouring a verdict of any court is mandatory, but it is our very constitution and the system of jurisprudence that allows to us appeal even if sentences are just, against the quantum of punishment. The government as well as civil society, including organisations and NGOs, should have moved by now or should be planning to do so, since it’ll soon be a week. We ask, have women and children’s rights groups picked up the copy of the Children’s Court judgment. Has the law department even considered looking at the judgment and preparing ground for appeal? Even if we account for the fact that certified copies may still be awaited, we are raising this as an advance red flag so that this story and this cause doesn’t slip out of public memory.