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The village Beed Santosh Pura is located 33 Kilometers from the District Head quarter Jaipur and 2 Kilometers from the Tehsil headquarter Chaksu. Para Devi (25 years) has been living in village Beed Santoshpura, Chaksu with her husband. They were earning their livelihood by working as daily wages laborer. On 23rd June 07, as per the routine, Para Devi with her husband Rang Lal, came to Chaksu Kotkhawda Mod to work from where her husband went to work and she, due to some stomach problem, was going to get medicines from Govt. Dispensary Chaksu. There, Kalu Ram Bairwa in a white car came and amused her to get medicines for her and deceitfully induced her to go with him. She saw Kajod Mal and Har Sahai already sitting in the car. From there they took her to different places e.g. Sheel ki Doongri, Jaipur, Bagru, Mandor, Teekel, Sanganer, Phagi and raped her on the way. The perpetrators then changed their car. On the way, Inderraj and Jagdish accompanied them and all of them again raped her many times in their car. It continued for 4 days. Three of the culprits got down at Mandor. Kajod and Har Sahai took her and their car met with an accident on 25th June 07. Then they took Para Devi to Sanganer, where 5-6 other men raped her. On 26th June 07 they dropped Para Devi to Phagi Bus Stand from where her brother’s father-in-law took her to her maternal aunt’s home. She then went her home with her brother and some other persons.
On 26thJune 07 Para Devi with her husband went to police station to lodge an F.I.R. against the perpetrators. In-charge of Police Station Chaksu did not register F.I.R. instead threatened and abused her that she herself ran away with the perpetrators and was not abducted. After a day with the intervention of Rajasthan Women’s Commission, police registered her F.I.R on 27th June 07 and sent her for medical examination. Accused tried to pressurize Para and her family to compromise and offered Rs. 5 Lac to her. Para and her family refused to compromise. On account of refusal, on 12th Sep 07 accused beaten up Rang Lal, husband of the victim and threatened him to withdraw the case. On 12th Oct 07, the challan was presented in the court and all the accused were released on bail. On 9th January 2009, Fast Track court sentenced 5 accused namely, Har Sahai, Kajod, Inder Raj, Kalu Ram, Jagdish, 10 years rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs. 10,000/- each. The culprit Sohan Lal and other are still absconding. Thus, the investigation is pending for them.
The local police did not register Para Devi’s F.I.R. instead threatened and abused her that she herself ran away with the perpetrators and was not abducted. After the intervention of Women Commission, Rajasthan, they filed the FIR against the accused on 27th June, 2007 and sent her for medical examination. All the accused were affluent, they heavily bribed the local police to hush up the case.
This is a case of grave violence of human rights of a woman but the Administration did nothing in this regard. Para Devi quit working because of fear of accused but nothing had been given to her in the name of rehabilitation and restoration. Not even a single officer took that incident seriously and didn’t approach Para. According to Law the medical should be done by the medical board but here the medical examination was done by a single medical officer who was fully biased and in the favor of accused. In this case, judiciary played its role up to the mark and sought justice to Para Devi. The statement of Para Devi was recorded under section 164 of Cr.P.C. On 12th Oct 07, the challan had been presented in the court and all the accused were released on bail. On 9th January 2009, Fast Track court sentenced 5 accused namely, Har Sahai, Kajod, Inder Raj, Kalu Ram, Jagdish, 10 years rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs. 10,000/- each under sections 366, 376 (2)(g)/34. The culprit Sohan Lal and other are still absconding. Thus, the investigation is pending for them.
The accused influenced and bribed the local police for not registering the FIR. All the accused were quite affluent and they heavily bribed the local police to hush up the case. To clean all the evidences against them, the accused influenced the medical officer to prepare the medical report in their favor. Para Devi was continuously humiliated by the accused and was compelled to compromise; her husband was beaten up by the accused.
Vitlapuram is a village located in Villupuram District, Tindivanam Taluk in Salavathi Panchayat under the jurisdiction of Rosanai Police station, there are nearly 1500 families are living there, among 800 families are scheduled caste (SC) and rest of them are Kounder and Naidu (Caste hindus). There is a Hindu public temple called “THRUBATHI AMMAN” and ther people have tbeen celebrating the religious festival ever year in the month of june and Aani (Tamil Month). This festival will celebrate for ten days in every year and many of them being participated and sacrifice their religious oath dring this festival.
This year the festival has decided to celebrate from 08.06.2007 to 17.06.2007 and its began at 08.06.2007. In between on 17.06.2007 they roganized holy fire walking cermoney at the temple the kounders wereparticipated on the ceremony, the Dalits people were tried to enter into that temple to worship the God when the Dalits were forbidden into the temple by the caste Hindus and they threatened them by stated that you stupid pariya how would you enter into this temple, Para Thayoligala, if you too audacious you entered the temple” if not vacate from this place we will burn and kill you alive. The Dalit people were frightened and they returned to their hamlet after twenty minutes unfortunate one dalit student named Vignesh (16) went near to the temple by that time the Kounder people got angry and they assaulter very badly then Vignesh hardly escaped from that attack with sever injury and ran to the Dalit hamlet, this incident came to know by the Dalit people and some of the elder Dalit leaders tried to enquire and they end further nuisance. On the way to the Kounders area these Dalit elders were brutally assaulted by the Konders with lethal weapons. After the incident the has been admitted in the Tindivanam Government Hospital and they referred to the Pondicherry Government Hospital.
The next day 18.06.2007 morning the people came into hamlet and raided the village to arrest the people who were involved in the above incident by the time the police were used lathi charge over the Dalit women and children . Then the police were arrested the innocents and minors named Susai, Parthipan and five who belongs to dalit community and they kept as a half naked in the Rosanai police station and remanded in the prison. On this incident Mr. Ayyappan belong to Dalit community went to police station and lodged the compliant following that police has been registered the case.
Pali is located 303 km from Jaipur and 3km from the District Headquarter. Laxmi’s husband Hemant used to work in night shift in a mill. Subsequently, she was left alone at night with her son and daughter. Kamal Kishore Yadav, taking advantage of the situation, one night (21/12/2006 approx) entered her home, forcefully raped her whilst covering her mouth and threatened her that if she tells anyone about it, he would kill her husband. As a result, she did not tell anyone out of fear.
20 days after the first incident (10/01/2007 approx), Kamal again entered the victim\\\'s house with Sharwan Singh, and both of them brutally raped her. The brutality was so severe that one of the perpetrators even stood on her hair in order to pin her down whilst the other perpetrator raped her on the floor. After that they threatened Laxmi not to open her mouth; otherwise they would kill her husband. She did not tell anyone out of fear. 10 days after the second incident (20/01/07 approx), Kamal again turned with Sharwan Singh & Fateh Singh at around 10:00 P.M and again raped her.
This all was unbearable for Laxmi and at last she decided to speak out against the accused. She went to the office of Superintendent of Police and lodged an F.I.R against them. The local police of Pali registered Laxmi’s FIR with the direction of the Superintendent of Police, Pali. Next day Laxmi was called for medical examination and her thumb impression was taken over the MLC report with a statement stating that Laxmi willingly doesn’t want to go through the medical examination. The main accused namely Kamal Kishore was arrested on May 6, 2007 after 3& 1/2 months from the date of FIR but soon he was released on bail on 20/6/07. Because of compassionate attitude of local police, accused started threatening Laxmi and pressurized her to withdraw the case. Laxmi changed her house to avoid this & begged for safety & security before local police as she was constantly receiving threats to be killed by the accused. Still she has been threatened by all three accused and police is not in a mood to help her as they are keen interested to rescue the accused. The Investigation officer submitted the challan on June 8, 2007 before the honorable MJM court Pali. Still perpetrators wondered around Laxmi’s house, continuously threatening and harassing her not to pursue the case in the court of law else she would dire consequences.
The local police of Pali registered Laxmi’s FIR with the direction of the Superintendent of Police, Pali and next day Laxmi was called for medical examination, here police deliberately seemed very devious and indicated in the record that Laxmi does not want to go for medical examination. She was directed by the police to deny for medical examination as she is not educated and unaware of the law expressing the same and thus her thumb impression was taken over the MLC report stating that Laxmi willingly doesn’t want to go through the medical examination. This illegal act of police was perhaps to help the perpetrators in the court of law and also for denying the victim a compensation of Rs. 1 Lac from Administration. The eligibility for granting compensation of Rs. 1 Lac to the rape victim is provided under the rules after lodging FIR & Medical examination of the victim.
The main accused namely Kamal Kishore was arrested on May 6, 2007 after 3& 1/2 months from the date of FIR but soon he was released on bail on 20/6/07. Because of compassionate attitude of local police, accused started threatening Laxmi and pressurized her to withdraw the case. Laxmi changed her house to avoid this & begged for safety & security before local police as she was constantly receiving threats to be killed by the accused. Still she has been threatened by all three accused and police is not in a mood to help her as they are keen interested to rescue the accused. The Investigation officer submitted the challan on June 8, 2007 before the honorable MJM court Pali. it is learnt that police is harassing the victim and is reluctant to move any application in the court for cancellation of bail of the perpetrators and have not even bound them under section 107 & 116 of Indian Penal Code and sections 3 (i)(xii) and 3 (2) (v) of SC/ST (PoA) Act, 1989.
Accused threatened Laxmi and her family members to kill them and terrorized that they will not let her live in Pali. They openly abused Laxmi by saying that what she can do, this will occur to her again and again and she will not able to do anything. Not only that, but Laxmi Devi was strictly prohibited to enter the mill. Because of their ill will Laxmi Devi is in trouble and helpless. As accused have been released on bail and are quite powerful in terms of money and political approach, their deeds compelled Laxmi Devi to commit suicide or die of hunger. The accused was released on bail. Now the case is pending for hearing.