Why do a significant majority of us have a downrightly deplorable, inhuman, shambolic and reprehensible attitude towards rape victims who deserve our empathy and encouragement rather than disdain and discouragement.........
The ordeal or then should I say trial by fire that the 11 year old Pune rape victims parents are undergoing every single day of their lives not only highlights our mental block and shocking apathy towards the rehabilitation and resettlement of rape victims but a living testimony to our latent hypocrisy and double standards........
To jog the nations' collective memory, a 11 year old female/girl student of Pune's renowned Wanowrie School was continually sexually exploited or violated on every single day between April and October 2013 by the driver and attendant of her school bus, the hapless parents of the long suffering girl firstly brought this dastardly act to the notice of the school's principal and patiently waited for the school authorities to initiate the much desired and awaited legal action against the erring duo........
As no such action was forthcoming on part of the school's authorities till a week ago or so, the parents decided that enough was enough and finally filed a police complaint alleging rape and kidnapping against the bus driver Kamruddin Ghayasuddin Shaikh as well as the attender of the very same bus one Khalil Mohammad Pathan.......
To their credit, it must be said that the Pune Police acted on the long suffering parent's complaint against the duo post haste and arrested the infamous duo on April 18, 2014, but what continues to gall or astound the parents is the apathetical attitude of the school authorities as well as other parents towards the 11 year old rape victim.........
As the distraught and inconsolable father of the rape victims father says "I have become a very helpless and destitute father in the aftermath of the police report as not only did the Wanowrie school management strike my daughter's name of the school's rolls without any logical explanation, but other schools are taking a leaf out of the school's book and simply refusing to admit my daughter in their school".........
And all this when even more profound, shocking, sensational and jaw dropping revelations about a spate of rapes in public and elite schools continue to hit or rather make the headlines every single day continually highlighting our sickening holier than thou attitudes and penchant for sweeping the prevailing ugliness in our so called civilised society under the carpet........
Tearfully and shakingly recalling the humiliating and harrowing incident, the victim says " In the month of October I was eagerly looking forward to my Diwali vacations and eagerly firming up plans of enjoying the same to the hilt with my doting family when my idyllic world crumbled around my knees on the fateful evening when Pathan asked me to accompany him to his humble abode as my parents were not at home to receive me as they usually did when I came home from school"..........
"When I questioned and queried Pathan, he replied saying that my mother had requested him to take care of me while she was away; on reaching his home I noticed Pathan making a beeline towards his bathroom and undressing himself in undue haste, I did make an effort to flee the scene on seeing him in a near naked state but he was simply too strong and quick for me as he succeeded in his endeavours to unclothe me and force himself upon me"...........
"He then proceeded to threaten me and said that he would kill me and throw my body out of the moving bus if I as much as breathed a single word about my ordeal to either my parents, teachers or friends; things only got worse as both Pathan as well as the bus driver would take turns to put their hands through my dress pocket and fondle and grope my private parts or nether regions on every single day thereafter", the shuddering victim mournfully signs off.........
Taking up the tale, the victim's slightly shrivelled up mother says that, " I noticed that on a few occasions my daughter who is normally back at around 3 pm or so from school was being dropped home at around 4:30 pm or so, when I asked or Queried Pathan about the delay, he cursorily brushed me off by making excuses about 'special classes' or some such"..........
"I was shocked beyond words and really did not know how to react when my elder daughter who is pursuing a degree in engineering and also happened to be around at the time owing to her Diwali vacations stumbled upon the sordid truth and informed us about the criminalistic proceedings"..........
"On numerous occasions I did notice bruises and contusions around my daughter's lip, necks, nether regions and lower extremities, but let the matter go as she always said that she had slipped in the bus and hurt herself; but I now continually curse myself for my gullibility and not being suspicious about the marks on my daughter's body as my suspicions would have forced my hand into establishing the truth and ended the endless torture inflicted on my little daughter months ago", the silently suffering mother says.............
According to the girl's father he got to know of his doctor's pitiful predicament way back in November 2013 and approached the school's principal Moushumi Chaudhary in December 2013...........
Ms. Chaudhary summoned Pathan as well as the driver to her office and questioned them in my presence, but the duo simply shrugged away the allegations and in turn accused my daughter and simply said that she was trying to tarnish or blemish their reputations at the behest of some other students who were inimical to them............
"A few days later Ms. Chaudhary reassured us saying that the school management had decided to take stringent and cognizable action against the duo, and the school' counsellor who is aware of the proceedings also offered to change my daughter's school bus, but Pathan and the driver continued to harass my innocent daughter even after her school bus was changed"..............
"I once again approached the principal in the first week of January and asked her about the progress made in the enquiry, but was shaken to my very roots when she started defending the conduct of the criminal duo, I then decided to file a written complaint before the school's director in the middle of January 2014 and he heard me out patiently but did not hold out any reassurances about initiating any action against the demons who had continually violated my daughter"............
"Matters however came to a head on March 28, 2014 when a peon from my daughter's school reached our doorstep with my daughter's annual progress report and school leaving certificate, I rushed to the school but founds it's gates firmly shut on me, left with little or no choice in the matter, I enrolled my daughter in yet another school affiliated to the CBSE board in early April"..........
"Things were okey dokey for the first two weeks or so in the new school but soon came to a head when the principal of the same school asked my daughter for the reason behind the decision to change her school midway".............
"As is her nature, my daughter told the principal of the new school the entire truth following which she summoned me on April 13 asked me to file a police complaint against Pathan and the bus driver, which I promptly did and also ordered me to withdraw my daughter's name from the school's rolls as the parents of other children were sure to raise a hue and cry on learning the truth about my 11 year old daughter and the principal as well as the school authorities did not want any bitterness to arise between them and the other parents on ,my daughter's accord"...........
"I cannot afford to home school my daughter as the charges of such tutors are way beyond my means and am actively contemplating moving out of Pune as soon as possible as not other school of repute has shown the slightest inclination towards admitting my innocent and victimised daughter", the victim's daughter tapers off bemoaning his fate............
Is this how we collectively treat our rape victims both as a so called progressive and egalitarian society as well as a nation that is said to be on the move; I for one cannot think of any other so called civilised society that draws blood and it's cheap thrills by making a living example out of a rape victim.............
As for our so called "enlightened and visionary" education system the less said the better, both Mr. Sibal as well as the present incumbent promised us of revolutionary changes within the same, if the ordeal suffered or endured by this Pune based 11 year old is a shining example of the so called revolution, the all I can say in conclusion is off with the heads of Mr. Sibal, the present incumbent, Wanowrie school's principal and director, may their souls rot in hell and may they be doomed for eternity.............
The ordeal or then should I say trial by fire that the 11 year old Pune rape victims parents are undergoing every single day of their lives not only highlights our mental block and shocking apathy towards the rehabilitation and resettlement of rape victims but a living testimony to our latent hypocrisy and double standards........
To jog the nations' collective memory, a 11 year old female/girl student of Pune's renowned Wanowrie School was continually sexually exploited or violated on every single day between April and October 2013 by the driver and attendant of her school bus, the hapless parents of the long suffering girl firstly brought this dastardly act to the notice of the school's principal and patiently waited for the school authorities to initiate the much desired and awaited legal action against the erring duo........
As no such action was forthcoming on part of the school's authorities till a week ago or so, the parents decided that enough was enough and finally filed a police complaint alleging rape and kidnapping against the bus driver Kamruddin Ghayasuddin Shaikh as well as the attender of the very same bus one Khalil Mohammad Pathan.......
To their credit, it must be said that the Pune Police acted on the long suffering parent's complaint against the duo post haste and arrested the infamous duo on April 18, 2014, but what continues to gall or astound the parents is the apathetical attitude of the school authorities as well as other parents towards the 11 year old rape victim.........
As the distraught and inconsolable father of the rape victims father says "I have become a very helpless and destitute father in the aftermath of the police report as not only did the Wanowrie school management strike my daughter's name of the school's rolls without any logical explanation, but other schools are taking a leaf out of the school's book and simply refusing to admit my daughter in their school".........
And all this when even more profound, shocking, sensational and jaw dropping revelations about a spate of rapes in public and elite schools continue to hit or rather make the headlines every single day continually highlighting our sickening holier than thou attitudes and penchant for sweeping the prevailing ugliness in our so called civilised society under the carpet........
Tearfully and shakingly recalling the humiliating and harrowing incident, the victim says " In the month of October I was eagerly looking forward to my Diwali vacations and eagerly firming up plans of enjoying the same to the hilt with my doting family when my idyllic world crumbled around my knees on the fateful evening when Pathan asked me to accompany him to his humble abode as my parents were not at home to receive me as they usually did when I came home from school"..........
"When I questioned and queried Pathan, he replied saying that my mother had requested him to take care of me while she was away; on reaching his home I noticed Pathan making a beeline towards his bathroom and undressing himself in undue haste, I did make an effort to flee the scene on seeing him in a near naked state but he was simply too strong and quick for me as he succeeded in his endeavours to unclothe me and force himself upon me"...........
"He then proceeded to threaten me and said that he would kill me and throw my body out of the moving bus if I as much as breathed a single word about my ordeal to either my parents, teachers or friends; things only got worse as both Pathan as well as the bus driver would take turns to put their hands through my dress pocket and fondle and grope my private parts or nether regions on every single day thereafter", the shuddering victim mournfully signs off.........
Taking up the tale, the victim's slightly shrivelled up mother says that, " I noticed that on a few occasions my daughter who is normally back at around 3 pm or so from school was being dropped home at around 4:30 pm or so, when I asked or Queried Pathan about the delay, he cursorily brushed me off by making excuses about 'special classes' or some such"..........
"I was shocked beyond words and really did not know how to react when my elder daughter who is pursuing a degree in engineering and also happened to be around at the time owing to her Diwali vacations stumbled upon the sordid truth and informed us about the criminalistic proceedings"..........
"On numerous occasions I did notice bruises and contusions around my daughter's lip, necks, nether regions and lower extremities, but let the matter go as she always said that she had slipped in the bus and hurt herself; but I now continually curse myself for my gullibility and not being suspicious about the marks on my daughter's body as my suspicions would have forced my hand into establishing the truth and ended the endless torture inflicted on my little daughter months ago", the silently suffering mother says.............
According to the girl's father he got to know of his doctor's pitiful predicament way back in November 2013 and approached the school's principal Moushumi Chaudhary in December 2013...........
Ms. Chaudhary summoned Pathan as well as the driver to her office and questioned them in my presence, but the duo simply shrugged away the allegations and in turn accused my daughter and simply said that she was trying to tarnish or blemish their reputations at the behest of some other students who were inimical to them............
"A few days later Ms. Chaudhary reassured us saying that the school management had decided to take stringent and cognizable action against the duo, and the school' counsellor who is aware of the proceedings also offered to change my daughter's school bus, but Pathan and the driver continued to harass my innocent daughter even after her school bus was changed"..............
"I once again approached the principal in the first week of January and asked her about the progress made in the enquiry, but was shaken to my very roots when she started defending the conduct of the criminal duo, I then decided to file a written complaint before the school's director in the middle of January 2014 and he heard me out patiently but did not hold out any reassurances about initiating any action against the demons who had continually violated my daughter"............
"Matters however came to a head on March 28, 2014 when a peon from my daughter's school reached our doorstep with my daughter's annual progress report and school leaving certificate, I rushed to the school but founds it's gates firmly shut on me, left with little or no choice in the matter, I enrolled my daughter in yet another school affiliated to the CBSE board in early April"..........
"Things were okey dokey for the first two weeks or so in the new school but soon came to a head when the principal of the same school asked my daughter for the reason behind the decision to change her school midway".............
"As is her nature, my daughter told the principal of the new school the entire truth following which she summoned me on April 13 asked me to file a police complaint against Pathan and the bus driver, which I promptly did and also ordered me to withdraw my daughter's name from the school's rolls as the parents of other children were sure to raise a hue and cry on learning the truth about my 11 year old daughter and the principal as well as the school authorities did not want any bitterness to arise between them and the other parents on ,my daughter's accord"...........
"I cannot afford to home school my daughter as the charges of such tutors are way beyond my means and am actively contemplating moving out of Pune as soon as possible as not other school of repute has shown the slightest inclination towards admitting my innocent and victimised daughter", the victim's daughter tapers off bemoaning his fate............
Is this how we collectively treat our rape victims both as a so called progressive and egalitarian society as well as a nation that is said to be on the move; I for one cannot think of any other so called civilised society that draws blood and it's cheap thrills by making a living example out of a rape victim.............
As for our so called "enlightened and visionary" education system the less said the better, both Mr. Sibal as well as the present incumbent promised us of revolutionary changes within the same, if the ordeal suffered or endured by this Pune based 11 year old is a shining example of the so called revolution, the all I can say in conclusion is off with the heads of Mr. Sibal, the present incumbent, Wanowrie school's principal and director, may their souls rot in hell and may they be doomed for eternity.............
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