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Punjab school boycotts gang-rape victim
By Rohan Dua, TNN - Feb 9, 2013, 03.24 AM IST
CHANDIGARH: A 14-year-old victim of gang rape in Bathinda, facing boycott by her government school, peers and neighbours, has written to the Punjab state women commission in details that have shocked its officials. The letter, a copy of which is with TOI, begins with the girl referring to herself as "a wretched member of society".
"Benti hai mere badnaseeb nadaan kudi walo... je mai apne naal hoye ais atyachar da badla lawa...ta mainu ki sammanit kiya jayega (Would I be honoured if I, an innocent little girl, were to take revenge for the crime against me)," the letter begins.
The letter was sent on February 2 to the National Commission for Women (NCW), nearly three months after she was gangraped, on October 14 last year, in Ramphura Phul tehsil of Bathinda. She was stopped from going to the senior government school in Bhagta Bhai due to ostracism. An FIR was filed on October 20 and six accused were arrested.
The girl writes in detail how her dreams to scale new heights in academics and become a panchayat head are now shattered. "Main class eight ch padi si, par kudrat noo mera agge padna manzoor nahi si (I was studying in class eight but destiny did not favour me)," she wrote.
"The SHO refused to attend to my father's complaints for six days until there was some intervention by a local leader who watched the news on TV," the letter said.
She even invokes the Akal Takht, seeking intervention from the priests. "Hai koi Guru Nanak da Sikh, je mainu wapis mera khoya zameer ta bachpan dila sakda" (Is there a Sikh in this state, who can help me get my pride and childhood)." The letter concludes with the girl signing herself off as 'zinda laash'.
source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...tts-gang-rape-victim/articleshow/18410267.cms
By Rohan Dua, TNN - Feb 9, 2013, 03.24 AM IST
CHANDIGARH: A 14-year-old victim of gang rape in Bathinda, facing boycott by her government school, peers and neighbours, has written to the Punjab state women commission in details that have shocked its officials. The letter, a copy of which is with TOI, begins with the girl referring to herself as "a wretched member of society".
"Benti hai mere badnaseeb nadaan kudi walo... je mai apne naal hoye ais atyachar da badla lawa...ta mainu ki sammanit kiya jayega (Would I be honoured if I, an innocent little girl, were to take revenge for the crime against me)," the letter begins.
The letter was sent on February 2 to the National Commission for Women (NCW), nearly three months after she was gangraped, on October 14 last year, in Ramphura Phul tehsil of Bathinda. She was stopped from going to the senior government school in Bhagta Bhai due to ostracism. An FIR was filed on October 20 and six accused were arrested.
The girl writes in detail how her dreams to scale new heights in academics and become a panchayat head are now shattered. "Main class eight ch padi si, par kudrat noo mera agge padna manzoor nahi si (I was studying in class eight but destiny did not favour me)," she wrote.
"The SHO refused to attend to my father's complaints for six days until there was some intervention by a local leader who watched the news on TV," the letter said.
She even invokes the Akal Takht, seeking intervention from the priests. "Hai koi Guru Nanak da Sikh, je mainu wapis mera khoya zameer ta bachpan dila sakda" (Is there a Sikh in this state, who can help me get my pride and childhood)." The letter concludes with the girl signing herself off as 'zinda laash'.
source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...tts-gang-rape-victim/articleshow/18410267.cms
