This surely is as bizarre as it gets........
A deaf mute 20 year old youth hailing from Jharkhand's Loharda Village was brutally; callously; inhumanly and grotesquely beheaded by fellow villagers following a bizarre diktat issued by the so called five wise men of the village (panchayat) on the fateful day of March 21;2016........
Though this wanton murder and savagery occurred on the afore mentioned day; the matter only came to light ten days or so after the horrendous occurrence when the Superindentent of Police Chaibasa under whose jurisdiction this village falls received an anonymous letter that informed him that 20 year old Sukhlal alias Gunga a life long resident of Loharda village was led into the adjoining jungle tied to a tree and subsequently beheaded following a diktat issued by the village panchayat pertaining to the settlement of a dispute amongst members of Sukhlal's immediate family.........
According to the author/person who penned the letter a particularly heated; acrimonious and violent spat broke out amongst the members of Sukhlal's family on March 20; 2016 which ended with the rather sorry spectacle of Sukhlal accosting and assaulting both his grandfather Durga Lohar and paternal uncle Randho Lohar.........
The duo in turn approached the village head (mukhiya) and beseeched him to summon the village panchayat so that Sukhlal could be duly punished and made to realise the consequences of his misplaced and somewhat brutal conduct........
Following the official complaint received by the two complainants; the village panchayat was duly summoned on the "bloody" day of March 21; 2016 and the same ended up issuing a diktat to the effect that both Sukhlal and his father Indulal should be bound to any of the numerous trees dotting the village and administered a sound thrashing by their fellow villagers so that they would not dare to summon up the courage and temerity to indulge in such violent behaviour in the future..........
Matters were settled with Indulal who more than willingly compensate his father and brother with a little more than three thousand rupees but Sukhlal's agony and ignominy was only compunded when a group of villagers led by Durga and Randho Lohar decided to lead the deaf mute 20 year old into the adjoining jungles and teach him a lesson that he would never forget.........
The murderous and particularly group led by the revenge seeking father and son ended up hacking off Sukhlal's head with an axe throwing the same into the wilderness and burying his headless torso or body in the immediate vicinity of the Sanjay river that flew through the jungle.........
Swinging into immediate action on March 31; 2016 upon receipt of the anonymous letter a posse of police personnel led by the inspector in charge of the Chaibasa Mofussil Police Thana raided the said village and interrogated the murdered youth's grieving father who not only spilled the beans but also alluded to the fact that he was forced into silence as the village headman and his henchmen threatened to mete out the same fate to him if he as much as breathed a word about the grotesque fate that had befallen his hapless son to any third person.........
Subsequent to Indulal and three other family members narration of the seemigly insane and senseless events that unfolded on the afore mentioned day the police party ended up registering cases of murder and destruction of evidence against the village headman and 16 other co-accused for their wilful and wanton act of murder most foul.........
While the policemen succeeded in apprehending the village headman and hauling him off to the police chowki; three police teams have been expressly constituted to trace the whereabouts of the 16 other accused persons in the case who have deserted the lawless village and are still at large.........
One wonders whether this heart rending and undeniably horrific incident will succeed in rousing the Jharkhand government from it's soporific slumber and force it's hand into reining in this and such other village panchayats that continue to persist with their lawless attitude and penchant to dispense justice as they deem fit even if the same does not conform to the constitution of India and laid down laws of the land.........
A deaf mute 20 year old youth hailing from Jharkhand's Loharda Village was brutally; callously; inhumanly and grotesquely beheaded by fellow villagers following a bizarre diktat issued by the so called five wise men of the village (panchayat) on the fateful day of March 21;2016........
Though this wanton murder and savagery occurred on the afore mentioned day; the matter only came to light ten days or so after the horrendous occurrence when the Superindentent of Police Chaibasa under whose jurisdiction this village falls received an anonymous letter that informed him that 20 year old Sukhlal alias Gunga a life long resident of Loharda village was led into the adjoining jungle tied to a tree and subsequently beheaded following a diktat issued by the village panchayat pertaining to the settlement of a dispute amongst members of Sukhlal's immediate family.........
According to the author/person who penned the letter a particularly heated; acrimonious and violent spat broke out amongst the members of Sukhlal's family on March 20; 2016 which ended with the rather sorry spectacle of Sukhlal accosting and assaulting both his grandfather Durga Lohar and paternal uncle Randho Lohar.........
The duo in turn approached the village head (mukhiya) and beseeched him to summon the village panchayat so that Sukhlal could be duly punished and made to realise the consequences of his misplaced and somewhat brutal conduct........
Following the official complaint received by the two complainants; the village panchayat was duly summoned on the "bloody" day of March 21; 2016 and the same ended up issuing a diktat to the effect that both Sukhlal and his father Indulal should be bound to any of the numerous trees dotting the village and administered a sound thrashing by their fellow villagers so that they would not dare to summon up the courage and temerity to indulge in such violent behaviour in the future..........
Matters were settled with Indulal who more than willingly compensate his father and brother with a little more than three thousand rupees but Sukhlal's agony and ignominy was only compunded when a group of villagers led by Durga and Randho Lohar decided to lead the deaf mute 20 year old into the adjoining jungles and teach him a lesson that he would never forget.........
The murderous and particularly group led by the revenge seeking father and son ended up hacking off Sukhlal's head with an axe throwing the same into the wilderness and burying his headless torso or body in the immediate vicinity of the Sanjay river that flew through the jungle.........
Swinging into immediate action on March 31; 2016 upon receipt of the anonymous letter a posse of police personnel led by the inspector in charge of the Chaibasa Mofussil Police Thana raided the said village and interrogated the murdered youth's grieving father who not only spilled the beans but also alluded to the fact that he was forced into silence as the village headman and his henchmen threatened to mete out the same fate to him if he as much as breathed a word about the grotesque fate that had befallen his hapless son to any third person.........
Subsequent to Indulal and three other family members narration of the seemigly insane and senseless events that unfolded on the afore mentioned day the police party ended up registering cases of murder and destruction of evidence against the village headman and 16 other co-accused for their wilful and wanton act of murder most foul.........
While the policemen succeeded in apprehending the village headman and hauling him off to the police chowki; three police teams have been expressly constituted to trace the whereabouts of the 16 other accused persons in the case who have deserted the lawless village and are still at large.........
One wonders whether this heart rending and undeniably horrific incident will succeed in rousing the Jharkhand government from it's soporific slumber and force it's hand into reining in this and such other village panchayats that continue to persist with their lawless attitude and penchant to dispense justice as they deem fit even if the same does not conform to the constitution of India and laid down laws of the land.........
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