For all those apologists, bleeding hearts and self styled human rights activists who espouse the cause of khap panchayats and justify the existence and continuance of these self styled kangaroo courts; here's an instance of the miscarriage of justice and medieval barbarism that will not only make you cringe but also re-examine your continued support to them.........
A 22 year old man hailing from Rajasthan's Nagaur district was abducted and taken to a Haryana village against his will; he was then subjected to the vilest abuse, inhuman forms of subjugation, tortured and brutally beaten up at the behest of the village's khap panchayat which feels that it is above the law and hence unanswerable to anybody.........
The 22 year old youth/young man was abducted by a gaggle of men who owed him enormous sums of money, these man then led him to the Odhan Village in Sirsa district of Haryana state where he was caged like a wild animal, beaten, starved, tortured, humiliated, made to eat his own excreta and drink his own urine and last but not the least sodomised on multiple occasions..........
His sordid, pitiable and inhuman ordeal only came to an end when his long suffering family members traced his whereabouts, rescued him from the clutches of his tormentors/captors and finally lodged a complaint against these devil reincarnates with the local police..........
Four of the twenty odd accused identified as Shankar, Arjun, Dilip and Chhotu Nath were arrested by the local police authorities after a local court intervened on behalf of the long suffering victim and ordered their immediate arrest and incarceration.........
As is their wont, the local police is siding with the khap panchayat and tormentors of the victim by giving an entirely different and highly distorted version of events: saying that the allegations made by the victim and his family members could not be corroborated and is not supported by any witnesses hailing from the village in question........
According to sub-inspector Badri Lal, the investigating officer, the victim was not abducted from Rajasthan but only brought back from there by the men hailing from Odhan village as he had committed the supposedly heinous and unpardonable crime of having eloped with a woman hailing from the very same village, a claim vehemently contested by the victim and his family members who in turn brand the cop as "highly corrupt and immoral" and nothing more than a paid agent of the khap panchayat........
Vijendra Singh, the victim's lawyer however outrightly rubbishes and dismisses these absurd claims and says that the fact of the matter is that the 22 year old man gave Rs. 3 lakh to two men hailing from Odhan village in October last as part of a deal made to net him an ideal life partner hailing from the village.........
"Instead of making good their time bound promise, the two men made away with the above mentioned sum of money", Singh goes on to add........
The two men (Naths) failed to honour their commitment and the youth began clamouring for the immediate return of the sum paid to them, after due diligence and relentless pursuance, the Naths relented sometime in the middle of December or so and condescended to show him a nubile young woman who they claimed was his future life partner........
Satisfied that his long cherished dream of getting married to the young lady of settling down with the lady of his dreams was nothing more than a mere formality, the youth made his way back to his abode in Rajasthan but never ever made it there as he was abducted midway and subjected to indescribable tortures for the better part of three odd months, the now fuming lawyer concludes.........
Alleging that the police who are hand in glove with the accused have conveniently preferred to look the other way and bury the statements of more than a dozen eye witnesses residing in Odhan Village, Vijendra Singh declares that medical tests carried out on the victim by three different medical facilities have conclusively established the occurrence of sodomy and torture.........
" I will not only prove my case, but also ensure that my client's captors are given the maximum punishment applicable under the relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code, Khap panchayats have been deemed to be ultra vires of the constitution by the Supreme Court and hence their diktats have no legal standing whatsoever", he signs off.........
I for one strongly believe that vote bank politics which are the primary reasons for the existence and continuance of these self styled kangaroo courts should be put on the back burner and buried six feet under for eternity, nothing on planet earth is more cherished and desired than basic human dignity and any organisation that compromises or then makes a mockery of the same should be incarcerated for good in the darkest dungeons of history where they rightfully belong..........
A 22 year old man hailing from Rajasthan's Nagaur district was abducted and taken to a Haryana village against his will; he was then subjected to the vilest abuse, inhuman forms of subjugation, tortured and brutally beaten up at the behest of the village's khap panchayat which feels that it is above the law and hence unanswerable to anybody.........
The 22 year old youth/young man was abducted by a gaggle of men who owed him enormous sums of money, these man then led him to the Odhan Village in Sirsa district of Haryana state where he was caged like a wild animal, beaten, starved, tortured, humiliated, made to eat his own excreta and drink his own urine and last but not the least sodomised on multiple occasions..........
His sordid, pitiable and inhuman ordeal only came to an end when his long suffering family members traced his whereabouts, rescued him from the clutches of his tormentors/captors and finally lodged a complaint against these devil reincarnates with the local police..........
Four of the twenty odd accused identified as Shankar, Arjun, Dilip and Chhotu Nath were arrested by the local police authorities after a local court intervened on behalf of the long suffering victim and ordered their immediate arrest and incarceration.........
As is their wont, the local police is siding with the khap panchayat and tormentors of the victim by giving an entirely different and highly distorted version of events: saying that the allegations made by the victim and his family members could not be corroborated and is not supported by any witnesses hailing from the village in question........
According to sub-inspector Badri Lal, the investigating officer, the victim was not abducted from Rajasthan but only brought back from there by the men hailing from Odhan village as he had committed the supposedly heinous and unpardonable crime of having eloped with a woman hailing from the very same village, a claim vehemently contested by the victim and his family members who in turn brand the cop as "highly corrupt and immoral" and nothing more than a paid agent of the khap panchayat........
Vijendra Singh, the victim's lawyer however outrightly rubbishes and dismisses these absurd claims and says that the fact of the matter is that the 22 year old man gave Rs. 3 lakh to two men hailing from Odhan village in October last as part of a deal made to net him an ideal life partner hailing from the village.........
"Instead of making good their time bound promise, the two men made away with the above mentioned sum of money", Singh goes on to add........
The two men (Naths) failed to honour their commitment and the youth began clamouring for the immediate return of the sum paid to them, after due diligence and relentless pursuance, the Naths relented sometime in the middle of December or so and condescended to show him a nubile young woman who they claimed was his future life partner........
Satisfied that his long cherished dream of getting married to the young lady of settling down with the lady of his dreams was nothing more than a mere formality, the youth made his way back to his abode in Rajasthan but never ever made it there as he was abducted midway and subjected to indescribable tortures for the better part of three odd months, the now fuming lawyer concludes.........
Alleging that the police who are hand in glove with the accused have conveniently preferred to look the other way and bury the statements of more than a dozen eye witnesses residing in Odhan Village, Vijendra Singh declares that medical tests carried out on the victim by three different medical facilities have conclusively established the occurrence of sodomy and torture.........
" I will not only prove my case, but also ensure that my client's captors are given the maximum punishment applicable under the relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code, Khap panchayats have been deemed to be ultra vires of the constitution by the Supreme Court and hence their diktats have no legal standing whatsoever", he signs off.........
I for one strongly believe that vote bank politics which are the primary reasons for the existence and continuance of these self styled kangaroo courts should be put on the back burner and buried six feet under for eternity, nothing on planet earth is more cherished and desired than basic human dignity and any organisation that compromises or then makes a mockery of the same should be incarcerated for good in the darkest dungeons of history where they rightfully belong..........
No comments:
Post a Comment