As the matter of a Dalit family’s fight for justice in a harassment case that claimed three lives surfaced prominently, State Government and Opposition come up with assurance of all possible help. Amid growing outrage, Chief minister Mohan Yadav visited the victim’s family in Sagar district, before this Congress leader Rahul Gandhi spoke to the family members over phone and assures all possible help. In a stark reminder that all political parties including ruling BJP left no stone unturned to woo Dalit voters during the elections but in this case of death of a Dalit women who was fighting for justice since last several years couldn’t witness that her influential culprits were punished. Yadav assured to open a police post in Barodia Nonagir. assistance of Rs 4 lakh to the family of the deceased Rajendra Ahirwar. CM also met the family members of Pappu Rajak who was injured in this incident. But the major question about action against culprits yet to be answered in a case of death of Dalit girl who fell from ambulance. As per the police complainant, the incident took three lives in less than a year.

 

Dalit girl who was now turned at the age of 20 years, filed a police case in 2019 against four men, alleging that they had harassed, threatened and assaulted her. According to the FIR, the complainant, then 15, was out for ablutions when Azad Thakur, Vishal Thakur, Pushpendra Thakur and Chotu Raikwar verbally abused her. Vishal Thakur, the woman alleged, also slapped her and threatened her against going to the cops. IPC sections relating to criminal intimidation and voluntarily causing hurt were invoked, along with provisions of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. Coming months before the 2020 Assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh, the case became a subject of heated political exchanges between the ruling BJP and the Opposition Congress. Then the elections were over, and the accused’s families started pressuring the woman to withdraw her complaint. The family refused. In August last year, a mob of hundreds beat the woman’s 18-year-old brother to death. The complainant was also assaulted and her mother stripped when she tried to protect her son during the attack.

 

Amid an outrage over the incident, nine people were charged with murder and sections of the stringent SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act were also invoked. Two people were arrested and another long legal fight began. According to the FIR, the accused included Vikram Thakur, Vijay Thakur, Azad Thakur, Komal Thakur, Lalu Khan, Islam Khan, Golu Soni, Nafis Khan and Waheed Khan. This Saturday, the woman’s uncle, also a witness in the mob murder of her brother, received a call from one Pappu Rajak. Pappu told the woman’s uncle that the accused wanted to “settle” the matter. The woman’s uncle was asked to retract his testimony. When he refused, both he and Pappu were attacked. The woman’s uncle died during treatment, and Pappu’s condition is critical. Following a police complaint by the family, police have registered a murder case against five accused namely Aashiq Qureshi, Bablu Bena, Israel Bena, Faheem Khan and Tantu Qureshi. One of them have been arrested.

 

For the family, more was to come. On Sunday evening, the woman who filed the sexual harassment case back in 2019