The Bizarre Story Of Rape And Murder Of A Dalit Girl In Haryana
It has been seven days since a 20-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly raped and murdered in Haryana’s Jind city
by Aradhna Wal , August 30, 2013
What does it take for a rape to be declared a rape? A girl gone missing, her mutilated body found on a deserted stretch, an unprecedented three post-mortems? Apparently in Haryana, even that is not enough.
It has been seven days since a 20-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly raped and murdered in Haryana’s Jind city. There are no suspects and the police refuses to give details of their inquiries and investigations. The body has not been cremated; it’s lying wrapped in white sheets, in a refrigerated glass case in the grounds of Jind’s Samanya Hospital. It has for company, the girl’s father and about 300 protesters camped out in the hospital agitating everyday for justice and action from the police and the state.
In the midst of chants against CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda, the Congress party and the police force, the father Surat Singh sits silent, head downcast, in the centre of the agitation but not quite a part of it. A slight, wiry man, he recalls how his youngest daughter left their home in Baniya Khera gaon at 11 am on 24 August, going to Jind to give her Junior Board Teacher (JBT) exam. It was her final exam. Had she passed, three years of hard work would have finally paid off. She never made it for the exam.
The JBT exam was scheduled from 2 pm to 5 pm. At 4 pm Surat Singh got a call from an unknown man, saying he had found some papers with his number on them. Singh, busy at the time, says it didn’t strike him that anything was amiss. However, when their daughter didn’t make it home by 7pm, the family started getting worried. The father and his two sons went out searching for her, and when they found no trace of her whereabouts they went to the Pillukhera police station in Jind. The cops asked them to call back the unknown afternoon caller. It emerged that the man was a resident of Amarheri gaon, just outside Jind city, and that he had found the papers and a bag lying by the side of the road. They both belonged to Singh’s missing daughter. The family rushed to Jind where they spent all night searching for the girl with the police. They returned home defeated in the morning.
The JBT exam was scheduled from 2 pm to 5 pm. At 4 pm Surat Singh got a call from an unknown man, saying he had found some papers with his number on them. Singh, busy at the time, says it didn’t strike him that anything was amiss. However, when their daughter didn’t make it home by 7pm, the family started getting worried. The father and his two sons went out searching for her, and when they found no trace of her whereabouts they went to the Pillukhera police station in Jind. The cops asked them to call back the unknown afternoon caller. It emerged that the man was a resident of Amarheri gaon, just outside Jind city, and that he had found the papers and a bag lying by the side of the road. They both belonged to Singh’s missing daughter. The family rushed to Jind where they spent all night searching for the girl with the police. They returned home defeated in the morning.
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