usage of words - An eye for an eye

An eye for an eye

Gandhiji said that an eye for an eye
makes the whole world go blind.


What does the phrase ‘an eye for an eye’ mean?

THEME FOCUS

Role-play the following dialogue between a Police Inspector
and Reena who witnessed an accident:

Police Inspector : Madam, you say you saw the accident.
Where were you at that time?
Reena : I was on the pavement near the place of the accident.
Police Insepctor : How did the car hit the van?
Reena : The car driver was quite unmindful of the traffic and he didn’t reduce the speed while overtaking the van.
Police Inspector : Was the van driver also driving very fast?
Reena : No, the speed might be less than 20kmph.
Police Inspector : What’s the car number?
Reena : It’s TN 13V 111 White Maruti.
Police Inspector : TN 13 V 111? That’s my car. Good heavens!
How am I going to recover my car!

The above coversation is reported in the following passage
without omitting any point:

The police inspector told Reena that she said she had seen the
accident. He asked her where she was at the time of the accident.
Reena replied that she was on the pavement near the place of the
accident.

Then the Inspector asked Reena how the car hit the van. She
told him that the car driver was quite unmindful of the traffic and
did not reduce the speed while overtaking the van.

The Inspector wanted to know whether the van was being
driven very fast. For this, Reena replied in the negative and said
that the speed of the van might have been less than 20 kmph.

When the Inspector asked for the car number she gave the
number as TN 13 V 111 White Maruti. The inspector was shocked
to hear the number and the make and said that it was his car. He
was desperate and exclaimed how he was going to recover his car.