EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE THE HINDU DELHI MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2019 NEWS 13 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Love, betrayal and caste oppression in an Unnao village Rape victim was promised marriage Umesh Bajpai, said they were “First and foremost, I being falsely implicated, and want those who burned my and attacked when she pursued case demanded a probe by the sister to be shot dead in an Central Bureau of ‘encounter’. If they [govern­ Omar Rashid ographed the act. In her Investigation. ment] don’t do it and show Unnao complaint, the woman al­ Shivam’s mother, Saroj laxity in getting me justice, I Overshadowing the emotion­ leged that after the initial in­ Trivedi, insisted that her son will commit suicide in Yogi’s al farewell to the Unnao rape cident of rape, Shivam conti­ was innocent and falsely [Chief Minister Yogi Aditya­ victim, who was laid to rest nued to rape her by giving charged in the rape case and nath’s] durbar,” she told The beside the graves of her false promises of marriage the murder. Hindu. grandparents on Sunday, is a and threatened to make the On December 5, when the Family members say the tale of love, betrayal and video public. woman was set ablaze victim was walking to the caste oppression in a tiny vil­ According to the com­ around 4.15 a.m., Ms. Trivedi railway station to catch a lage in Uttar Pradesh. plaint, Shivam even lived said her son and husband train to Rae Bareli to inquire As in most cases of rape, with her in a rented room in were asleep at home. from the court how Shivam the victim and the main ac­ Rae Bareli for a short while, “At 5.13 a.m., Shivam’s was granted bail in just two­ cused had known each other and allegedly prepared false friend called him for a run. and­a­half months. since they were in school. In marriage papers to mislead He was preparing for a police While Shubham, the prad- an FIR lodged in March, the her. job. At 5.30 a.m., he put on han’s son, was not arrested woman accused Shivam Tri­ his clothes and left home. for the rape, Shivam was put vedi, 24, and Shubham Trive­ Different versions The police came at 6 a.m. behind bars on September di, 25, of raping her at gun­ However, the victim’s family and asked about him. After 19. However, he was granted point in a field in Rae Bareli and villagers give different that, the police went to the bail by the Allahabad High last December. The FIR was versions of the events. Her Sad, familiar end: Family members and relatives carrying the body of the rape victim for burial at Unnao on Sunday. * PTI location near our borewell in Court on November 25 and registered only after a pro­ sister said the victim never search of him along with my released five days later. tracted struggle by the family pressured Shivam to marry father is a blacksmith. Inspector­General of Pol­ of marriage. where the dominant Brah­ nephew,” she said. Over the past one year and and the intervention of a lo­ her and her father said the “For this reason, the mat­ ice, Lucknow, S.K. Bhagat Even as the victim was bu­ min families live. more recently after his re­ cal court. boy’s family had agreed for ter got entangled. The talks told presspersons on Thurs­ ried amid a large contingent The families of Shivam Seeking justice lease on bail, Shivam and his In the sequence of events marriage, but the village [of a compromise] were al­ day, after the woman was set of police as a crowd includ­ and Shubham, the rape ac­ But outside their thatched associates had threatened described in the FIR, the vic­ pradhan did not allow it be­ most final. But the pradhan ablaze that prima facie it ap­ ing leaders of the Samajwadi cused, their fathers Ramkish­ hut, the victim’s grief­strick­ the victim with dire conse­ tim said Shivam had first cause of caste differences — said this marriage won’t hap­ peared that the woman knew Party and Congress looked or Trivedi and Harishankar en sister, her face covered in quences if she did not with­ “lured her in a love trap” and the victim’s family belong to pen. This clash continued Shivam, who “physically ex­ on, an eerie quiet enveloped Trivedi (the pradhan’s hus­ a dupatta, was determined to draw the rape case, her sister raped her. He allegedly vide­ a backward caste and her due to that,” the father said. ploited” her on the promise the other end of the village band) and a fifth associate ensure justice. alleged. CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Come after you get Anger on the streets Minister wants faster raped: Unnao police trial of rape cases Woman’s complaint dismissed ‘Will write to CMs, HC Chief Justices’ Indo-Asian News Service Press Trust of India investigation within two hoga tab aana (Rape has Patna Unnao not happened; come when months in rape and POCSO Despite the outrage over the it happens),” a policeman at Union Law Minister Ravi cases,” Prasad told repor­ death of the Unnao rape vic­ the station told her. Shankar Prasad on Sunday ters. tim who was set ablaze by The woman said three said he would write to the the accused, the police in men from the village had at­ Chief Ministers and the Highly condemnable the Uttar Pradesh district tempted to rape her some Chief Justices of the High Incidents of rape and have allegedly refused to re­ months ago when she was Courts to complete investi­ crimes against women are gister a woman’s complaint on her way to buy medi­ gation into cases of rape and unfortunate and highly con­ of attempted rape. cines. “I was going to buy those registered under the demnable, he said. The woman from Hindu­ my medicines. These three Protection of Children from “I will write to the Chief pur village, where the rape men stopped me and start­ Sexual Offences Act in two Justices to dispose of expe­ victim was set on fire on ed pulling my clothes. They months. ditiously all cases relating to Thursday, alleged on Satur­ also attempted to rape me,” rape and POCSO pending in day that the police had dis­ she said. ‘Trial in six months’ the fast­track courts,” he missed her complaint. She has also identified Trial of such cases should be said. The police allegedly the accused, who have been completed within six Mr. Prasad’s comment asked the woman to come allegedly threatening her. months, the Minister told came in the backdrop of na­ after the rape had taken The woman said she had presspersons. tion­wide outrage over the place. been visiting the police sta­ Activists in Patna on Sunday demanding strong deterrent punishment to rapists to check the rising incidents of sexual “I am going to write let­ alleged rape and murder “Rape toh hua nahi; jab tion for over three months. violence. * PTI ters to all the Chief Ministers cases at Hyderabad and CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC urging them to complete the Unnao. IN BRIEF Terror poses a PM asks police to connect with public challenge in Use social media to promote good work done by the force, Modi tells DGPs, IGs South Asia: PM Vijaita Singh across the country by the Na­ Special Correspondent New Delhi tional Investigation Agency NEW DELHI Prime Minister Narendra (NIA) and the State police Countries in South Asia Modi meets Shourie in Pune hospital Modi asked the top police of­ forces. The bulk of such ar­ should take steps to resist PUNE ficers of the country to use rests, 127, were made by the terrorism that poses a chal­ Prime Minister Narendra social media effectively and NIA in 28 cases. lenge to prosperity and Modi met former Minister promote the good work Punjab DGP Dinkar Gupta peace in the region, Prime Arun Shourie in a hospital in done by the force. gave a presentation on radi­ Minister Narendra Modi Pune on Sunday evening and The Prime Minister and calisation to propagate Khal­ has said in a letter to the spent nearly 15 minutes with Home Minister Amit Shah istani activities. Secretariat of the South the former BJP leader. Senior addressed the annual all­In­ The NIA and the Punjab Asian Association for Re­ doctors of Ruby Hall Clinic in dia conference of Directors­ police have registered nearly gional Cooperation the Bund Garden area of the General and Inspectors­Gen­ 10 cases in the past three (SAARC) in Kathmandu. city said the Prime Minister eral of Police organised by High-level meet: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home years for alleged attempts to “SAARC has made pro­ arrived at 6 p.m. Chief the Intelligence Bureau in Minister Amit Shah at the conference of DGPs in Pune. * PTI create “communal dishar­ gress, but more needs to be cardiologist Parvez Grant and Pune on December 6 and 7. mony” in Punjab on direc­ done. Our efforts at greater neurosurgeon Sachin Gandhi Maharashtra DGP S.K. vernment official who at­ bility, threat from radicalisa­ tions from Pakistan. collaboration have repeat­ took Mr. Modi to Mr. Jaiswal gave a detailed pre­ tended the meet. tion in the digital era, and edly been challenged with Shourie’s room. PTI sentation on steps taken to At the meeting held on the evidence­based policing.” New universities threats and acts of terro­ improve the image of the premises of the Indian Insti­ There was no exclusive The Home Minister an­ rism.