Wednesday, October 12, 2016

PROTECTORS OR TORMENTORS........

As it the continual and unabated tales of horrors and atrocities being committed against hapless and seemingly defenceless women were not enough of a dampener and eye opener; here comes the sordid tale of a police constable joining the ranks of Uttar Pradesh's rapists and sexual offenders.......
 40 year old Ramesh Mishra a driver (police driver) attached to Allahabad City's Civil Lines Police Station for the last decade and a bit allegedly raped his 60 year old victim on the intervening late night of Sunday-early Monday morning on the pretext of showing her the immersion of numerous Durga Mata idols from close proximity in the supposedly secure confines of a boat........
 According to the case's investigating officer; the accused chanced upon the 60 year old Firozabad resident when he had gone to the city's famed and revered "Sangsam" area in order to partake his share of the piety and resplendent splendour surrounding the annual ritual of the immersion of the city's numerous Durga idols that dot the city's numerous pandals that come up with unfailing regularity during the Navratri period every single year.......
 Little suspecting her tormentor's and plunderers unholy and brazen intentions; the trusting; naive and gullible sixty year old rape survivor more than readily acceded to his expressed desire or wish of boarding a boat in his company so that she could witness or then immerse herself in the splendour and religiosity of the annual festive occasion from the proverbial arm's length........
Taking undue advantage of the opportunity accorded to him; Mishra firstly subdued his hapless victim and forced himself upon her fulfilled his demonic sexual urges made his way back to the shore and fled the spot post haste after holding out the now stereotypical threat of causing grievous bodily harm to the victim if she as much breathed a word about the incident to any living soul........
Keeping her wits about her with considerable difficulty; the 60 year old somehow managed to wend/find her way to the neighbouring police station in the company of enraged and incensed locals in the wee hours of Monday morning after narrating her tale of woe and horror to her companions and comrades in distress and grief.......
 A case was registered against the accused who has since been identified as Ramesh Mishra based on the description provided by the 60 year old victim under section 376 of the Indian Penal Code and an alert was sounded across the fifty odd police stations dotting the iconic and ancient city's landscape in order to apprehend the fugitive at the earliest........
 One really wonders who will guarantee and ensure the safety and security of the nation's harassed and harangued womenfolk when their supposed protectors and knights in shining armour turn out to be their tormentors and devil reincarnates........

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