Showing posts with label social terror. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social terror. Show all posts

Sunday, May 07, 2017

8 Men Gang Raped Woman On Highway in UP

Rapes are very common these days; there’s hardly any place in India which is saved from such disgusting things. However, a brutal incident has come to light in Yogi Adityanath’s Uttar Pradesh; no doubt, the CM is taking many efforts to improvise situations in UP, but this case has come as a shocker.

According to reports, 8 men gang raped a woman & that too in front of her husband; yes, they tied him up and brutally raped her. This happened in Jalaun district on the 4th of May, when the couple was returning from Jaipur. After raping the woman, those men robbed them and dumped them on Auraiya-Jalaun highway.

Basically, the couple took a train to Auraiya and from there, they wanted some transport to Jalaun; it was midnight that they had reached Auraiya. While checking some public transport options, a loader van stopped there and the driver offered them a lift.

As soon as the couple got into the van, the driver drove it to a deserted area; when the van stopped at the liquor shop, some more men came in. All of them started raping the woman turn by turn and the husband couldn’t do anything as he was tied up. Moreover, when the couple started screaming, the men threatened them and asked them to keep their mouths shut.

On the 5th May i.e. Friday, an FIR was filed against those 8 men; SC Shakya, the Jalaun Additional Superintendant of Police said, “An FIR has been lodged against eight unidentified men for gangrape and dacoity. We will arrest the culprits soon.”

Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Social Terror: Dalit family Defies Upper-Caste Diktat

Like any other parent, 45-year-old Chander Meghwal of Mana village wanted to give the groom a grand reception at his daughter Mamta’s wedding on Sunday.

However, a band is de rigueur for a marriage ceremony in the Malwa hinterlands to be called grand. And therein lay the rub.

Chander is a Dalit, and the dominant upper caste community in the village has decreed that no family of “low social status” should have a band as part of their marriage procession. At best, they could have a dhol – a two-headed barrel-shaped drum – for musical accompaniment.

A few upper caste members even threatened Chander of dire consequences if he tried to become their equal by hiring a full-fledged band. But Mamta, a class 12 student, wouldn’t be cowed down. Reiterating their right to celebrate happy occasions in ways they deemed proper, she suggested that they approach the district administration for help.