A girl – legs sure – was tied to a bike and dragged, screaming for assist, throughout rubble and rocky floor for a number of seconds by her husband in Rajasthan‘s Nagaur district.
Then the person will get off his bike and stands over the lady, who’s injured, in ache, and crying from the bodily and psychological trauma of the previous few seconds, and sullenly surveys his ‘handiwork’. The smug pose – palms on hips as the lady writhes at his ft – underlines the stunning abuse ladies face.
A 40-second video of the assault – believed to have been perpetrated final month – has been shared on-line and divulges a stomach-churning element. Not one particular person – and there have been not less than three folks, together with one other lady and the person (presumably) who filmed the assault – intervened.
Not one particular person from the village, to the gates of which the husband dragged his spouse, emerged.
The horrific video additionally underlines the violence Indian ladies face every day, and emerges because the nation is up in arms over yet one more in a protracted listing of such atrocities – the rape and murder of a doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.
As far as the Rajasthan video is worried, it’s unclear who the person is.
There are reviews that recommend he’s the husband and attacked his spouse as a result of she wished to go to her sister in Jaisalmer. It may, nevertheless, even be a case of bride being ‘purchased’ – a reference to an appalling customized of ‘shopping for’ a spouse from one other state, reported from districts like Jhunjhunu, Nagaur, and Pali.
Ladies ‘bought’ on this method endure the worst of bodily, psychological, and sexual abuse from their ‘husband’ and, in lots of circumstances, from different males within the village. They’re consigned to the standing of compelled labour within the farms and compelled into doing house responsibilities, and serving to fulfill the ‘husband’ in mattress.
Native police say they may examine each angles, the second of which is human trafficking.
Sources instructed NDTV the lady could have been ‘purchased’ by the person – recognized as Prem Ram Meghwal, in his 40s, unemployed, and reportedly hooked on medication – round 10 months in the past for Rs 2 lakh
The police have taken him into custody and have contacted the lady, now in Jaisalmer.
A FIR has been filed and the one that filmed the assault however didn’t intervene will probably be prosecuted too. “We’ve got taken the matter very critically. It’s believed the person and the lady had some dispute as she wished to go to her sister. We’ve got contacted her… she will probably be coming to Nagaur, after which we’ll take additional motion…” Nagaur Police Superintendent Narayan Togas instructed NDTV.
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