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 8 June 2012

Shelter home inmate gang-raped, another missing Pradeep Rai, TNN | Jun 7, 2012, 06.45AM IST


YAMUNANAGAR: In a shocking revelation, a 17-year-old mentally retarded inmate of a shelter home in Chhachhrauli block of Yamunanagar district was allegedly raped by two youths on June 1.
The incident took place after she ran away from the shelter home, Bal Kunj, along with a 14-year-old girl, who is still missing.
Police on Tuesday lodged an FIR against five youths under rape charges after the girl narrated her tale of woes before a probe committee headed by city magistrate, Yamunanagar, Pooja Chavariya.
"Doctors have confirmed that the girl, who seems mentally retarded, was raped," said police's investigation officer, Pawan Kumar.
The shelter home was mired in controversy after the 14-year-old girl went missing. Later, many other inmates alleged that they were subjected to mental and physical torture by shelter home's officials.
Pawan Kumar told The Times of India that they were investigating whether the second girl disappeared on June1 or May 30 as informed by the shelter home management.
According to the complainant girl, two youths had raped her and another three had gone inside a room with the other girl, aged 14, but did not know what happened with her inside the room.
The girl said that she along with two girls, including one named Devi, had tried to run away from the shelter home after jumping its wall on June 1. Devi was caught by the chowkidar (guard) of the shelter home while we succeeded in jumping the wall," the complainant was quoted by police as saying.
"Five youths caught us after some distance from the shelter home," she told the investigators. "They told us that they would take us to the shelter home. But they took us to an unknown place in a three-wheeler," she alleged. "Two of the accused took me to a room. Mere sath galat kam hua hai (I was sexually assaulted)," she said.
According to the girl, after the incident, she somehow managed to run away from that unknown place to reach her home at Jagadhri.
The accused have not been identified as yet, though the girl said that one of them was called as "Sonu" by others.
The girl was staying at the shelter home after the death of her mother around ten years back.
Pawan Kumar said that contradicting facts are coming out in the case. "We have also come to know that the girl had gone to her home on May 27," Kumar said, adding that they are facing a challenge in probing the case as the girl is mentally retarded.
Meanwhile, the state child welfare council has transferred shelter home's superintendent, Sukhvinder Singh, to its head office at Chandigarh. A woman superintendent, Kamla Rathi, will look after the affairs of the shelter home, said council's state general secretary, Indu Dahiya.
"Sub-divisional magistrate of Bilashpur, Ashwani Maingi, will supervise the shelter home's functioning in place of district child welfare officer, Yamunanagar, Manisha Khanna," Dahiya added.

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