Of late, I have been witnessing a very disturbing increase in the crime against females, be a girl child, a teenager, or an adult woman. It has almost become the order of the day. Newspapers are replete with such news. No doubt, India has been placed at parity with Afghanistan as the worst countries for a female to born in. Sometimes, I guess, had it been there in the past too but very less reported?.. or the mind set of the Indian male is becoming less human, devoid of any compassion and respect for the other gender, and is also becoming fearless of the Indian Law!
So, I fancied an idea to let the world know the dark side of "Being a Female in India."
Let there be the consciences shaken, people of all walks do some soul searching..take a pause and raise their voice, wherever they are, against the atrocities being meted out to girls and women, with a result that cruelity against the female gender starts receding, and we give to our generations to come a society where a woman is respected in its true essence-as as wife, as a sister, as a mother, as a grand mother et al..is the sole objective of this blog.
Amen.

Friday 22 June 2012

Pipili 'rape' points to pitiable state of women Rajaram Satapathy | Jun 22, 2012, 05.31AM IST


BHUBANESWAR: Just when Odisha was in a festive mood on Thursday, the SCB Medical College and Hospital announced the death ofBabina Behera, drawing curtains on the suffering of the 19-year old dalit girl from Pipli. She endured her suffering silently for nearly seven months since she was allegedly subjected to rape and then attempts of murder through strangulation.
The crime against Babina was said to be linked to her being the key witness in a molestation case involving her next-door friend, who later committed suicide, in the village. The miscreants reportedly wanted to silence Babina once and for all. They succeeded to a large extent as the teenager till her death remained in a coma, but the incident brought to the fore the degree of helplessness people not close to the corridors of power can pass through.
The follow-up developments like police refusing to accept the FIR, hospitals not showing much interest in her treatment, doctors administering snake bite medicines, reported attempts of shielding the criminals and threats to her family and attempts to tarnish her image ostensibly to defend the crime are cited as pointers to the pitiable state of affairs of women victims in the state.
The Pipli incident would have perhaps melted into thin air like many others, but for some civil society activists who took up the case for justice leading to intense public outcry, which was never seen since the sensational Anjana Mishra gang rape incident in early 1999.
The ensuing protests shook the government. Agriculture minister and local BJD MLA Pradeep Maharathy was forced to resign, while the beleaguered government announced a judicial inquiry. The SCB Medical College, which once discharged the girl even when she was battling for life, had to readmit her for treatment, thanks to the intervention of the high court. The inspector in-charge of Pipli police station, Amulya Champatiray, was first suspended and then dismissed. The district SP, A N Sinha, was transferred as the government handed over the investigation to the Crime Branch.
The Babina episode also caught the attention of the National Commission for Scheduled Caste (NCSC), which visited the state and recommended Maharathy's arrest. As the probe progressed, the Crime Branch filed chargesheets implicating the superintendent of the SCB Medical College and Hospital and two doctors of the Capital Hospital here.
No sooner the SCB made public Babina's death, chief minister Naveen Patnaik announced Rs 10 lakh compensation to her family. The Cuttack collector rushed to the hospital to hand over the cheque even while the family members were still undecided where to take the body for cremation. "I have lost my daughter. I hope justice will be done to her. Let the case be handed over to the CBI for investigation," Babina's father Babuli Behera said.
In Bhubaneswar, several political parties and Odisha Gana Samaj, the organization floated recently comprising people from all walks of life and political parties, demanded justice for the girl and staged a road blockade at Master Canteen square. They echoed the demand for CBI inquiry and Rs 50 lakh compensation to the families of Babina and her deceased friend. The protesters also demanded murder charges against all the accused. The Bhubaneswar policesensing trouble refused to allow the vehicle carrying the girl's body into central areas of the city and diverted it to her village near Pipli for cremation.

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