Protests in Jharkhand after headless body
of teenager found
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Mob attacks convoy of chief minister demanding immediate action
Published: January 05, 2021 20:25
Lata Rani, Correspondent, Gulf News
Patna: The police have announced a reward of Rs25,000 for information leading to the arrest of culprits after the beheaded body of a girl was found in Jharkhand.
Villagers informed the police in the Ormanjhi area on Monday after they found the headless, nude body of a girl. On reaching the spot, police made enquiries and sent the body for autopsy. The police also found a few empty bottles and a makeshift oven to cook food from the spot.
Soon after recovering the body, the police launched extensive searches for the missing head. According to the police, the culprits may have fled with the head to destroy the evidence. The police have not yet identified the girl.
“We are yet to get clues about the girl. We are going through the records of the missing girls at the police stations and at the same time have announced a reward of Rs25,000 to anyone who provides information about the culprits,” Ormanjhi police station in-charge Shyam Kishore Mahto told the media on Tuesday. He said the police were working overtime to complete the investigation.
The police have issued three separate cell phone numbers and WhatsApp numbers to get information about the culprits. The police have also assured that the names and addresses of the informants would be kept secret for security reasons.
“Whether she was sexually assaulted or not will be ascertained after post-mortem. Prime facie it seems the body was dumped at the said spot after murder at some other place,” Ranchi’s rural superintendent of police Naudhad Alam told the media.
The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) drew parallels to the 2012 Delhi Nirbhaya case. “The incident is more gruesome than the Nirbhaya case and highlights the failure of the state government,” former Jharkhand chief minister Babulal Marandi alleged. “This is not a normal incident. The fact is that girls are not safe in the state and the chief minister should act fast and seriously,” he said.
Girls are not safe anywhere on the sub-continent!
The incident triggered strong protests in the area and on Monday evening angry protesters attacked the convoy of Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren. The windows of several cars that were part of the convoy were smashed by the protesters, prompting the security forces to use force to control the mob.
Raped and assaulted, how India’s Daughters die twice
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Many children and women like the teenage girl in Hathras
are merely allowed to bide time
Published: January 13, 2021, 09:21
Jyotsna Mohan, Special to Gulf News
Image Credit: IANS
That there has been another gang rape in the state of Uttar Pradesh is no longer shocking, since I started writing this piece, a 19- year- old has allegedly been raped and thrown from the terrace of her house. She is battling for survival, while a pregnant 15-year-old rape survivor could not make it.
Nor are allegations of police apathy in handling the case in the village of Badaun where a local priest is the prime accused surprising, this is the same police that a few months ago forcefully cremated a 19- year- old gang rape victim (6th story on link) in the dead of the night without allowing her family a last glance.
The revelations that steel rods were used to assault the 50- year- old woman who disappeared during a visit to a temple may break our inner compass but sadly, this too has played out earlier and not just during the assault on Jyoti Singh. (Nirbhaya)
In India, a woman gets raped every 16 minutes (Those are known statistics, in reality, I believe rape is almost continuous in India) says the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB). Sometimes it isn’t possible for the outrage to keep up. Other times, the candles stay unlit, personal safely wins with the hope that at least our own have our back.
So, when Chandramukhi Devi, a member of the National Commission for Women — a toothless statutory redressal body — says the assault could have been avoided had the victim not gone out alone in the evening, we know we remain in a dark place and not just because our taxes continue to flog a dead horse.
It is often said that a woman is a woman’s worst enemy, but when the stakes are this high — India holds steady as one of the most dangerous countries for women with an 86% increase in crimes in the last decade — every regressive word encourages a flawed system to flourish. These days, it needs little encouragement.
The phrase ‘patriarchal bargain’ was coined by Turkish author Deniz Kandiyoti who described it somewhat as the Faustian bargain in societies where patriarchy is more than an echo.
While accepting the dominance of men and gender divide as paramount, it refers to those women who find individual power within this set-up, propping themselves up at the expense of putting other women down.
Domination as an identity remains ingrained and aspirational even in those who are subservient and Chandramukhi Devi seems to have learnt this from her boss.
The Chairperson of the Commission Rekha Sharma has in the past not even spared Mahatma Gandhi from her wildly misogynist rants. She may have scrubbed her twitter handle clean, but women rights were never in more dubious hands.
Strident and sexist narrative
Please go to Gulf News for the rest of this story.
Minor gang-raped in Delhi after forced sex change, 2 held
Accused befriended the boy and took him to Mandawali
on the pretext of teaching him dance
Published: January 15, 2021 15:44
IANS
New Delhi: In a shocking incident, a 13-year-old boy was forced to undergo a sex change operation and then gang-raped for months in Delhi's Geeta Colony area, officials said on Friday. Two persons have since been arrested in the case.
Geeta Colony slum, Delhi
Police said that the teenager was also forced into begging. The teenager's ordeal began when he met the accused three years ago at a dance event in Laxmi Nagar.
The accused befriended the boy and took him to Mandawali on the pretext of teaching him dance, where the accused and his accomplices forced the minor to live. After some time, the accused started giving him alcoholic drinks and forced him to undergo sex-change surgery.
"The accused are involved in flesh trade and wore women's attire to lure customers. They also beat up and robbed their clients," the victim, who escaped their clutches, said.
After the case was brought to the notice of Delhi Women's Commission, its member Sarika Chaudhary lodged an FIR against the accused. Police are hunting for others involved in the crime.
DWC Chairperson Swati Maliwal said: "This case is very serious and shocking. At the age of 13, a child was forced to undergo sex change operation and gang-raped and forced into prostitution. It seems like a huge racket. Fortunately, the victim along with another person escaped and saved their lives.
So, the question here is, how do you force someone to undergo sex-change surgery? The doctor who performed the surgery needs to be thrown in jail and have his license revoked.
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