The alleged rape of a minor girl from Uttar Pradesh’s Banda district’s Shazapur village by MLA of the incumbent Bahujan Samaj Party, Purushottam Naresh Dwivedi, is giving ground to the sentiment that if you want to rape any girl and move scot free then, all you need to do is be an MLA.
The minor girl was not only raped by the MLA but the MLA offered her to his associates also. Height of inhumanity, in the words of the girl herself, “On December 10 the MLA raped me at his house. Later I was raped by his associates on the direction of the MLA. On December 11, the MLA raped me again and when I begged for mercy he told me that he would get me married with his servant Chedi. I rejected engraged over it the MLA asked his associates to continue with the rape.”
Not content with this when the girl any how managed to escape from the clutches of the MLA, he got her framed in theft case and police arrested the girl.
Not only the police arrested the minor girl but instead of keeping her in juvenile jail, locked her up in normal police custody.
Now, after all this the politics plunged into the case, where ironically the chief of Bahujan Samaj Party, the party which the accused MLA represents ordered the release of the girl on her birthday. BSP supremo as she proclaims Mayawati got the girl relased but till date no significant action has been taken against the MLA. Thus where on one side you are celebrating your birthday on the other trying to protect your social face.
This is not the all the story has got a lot more to say. A woman jail warden of Banda district jail where the girl was kept has alleged that the officials are threatening her for giving statement in favour of the MLA.
The magistrate of the district has also been under scanner for pressurizing the victim to change her statement.
Now diverting a bit from the plight of this girl, a school teacher Bihar’s Purnia district Rupam Pathak was in the headlines for murdering a BJP MLA. Stark similarities are present in both the cases, Pathak murdered the MLA after levelling charges of rape against him.
But, before doing so she knocked all the doors seeking justice for herself. Failing which, in ultimate despair she not only withdrew all the charges against the MLA but tried to find justice for herself on her own, resulting into the murder of the MLA.
What can be inferred from all this needless to say that the statement of the girls clearly reflected the feeling of hopeless, hapless common man when she said, “I will follow Phulan Devi’s footsteps if authorities sheild the legislator”.
But the major question is , will she, a minor girl of a common man be able to do so?
The war would have been easier, if there would have only one, two , three, four , five or any countable culprits, but what if the entire systems turns against the feeble, meek, minor daughter of a common man?
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