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Will the Banda rape victim get justice?
Shreya Dhoundial, K Bimbadhar, CNN-IBN
Posted on Jan 18, 2011 at 09:24pm IST
Banda: The quest for justice for the rape victim in Banda is going
nowhere. An inquiry into why the Dalit girl had to spend 30 days in
jail for a theft that looks like a cover up for rape is going on. But
the shocker is why it took two weeks for the jailer to order a medical
inquiry after the victim had informed the jail staff of her plight. A
gap of seventeen days which makes it impossible to determine rape.
The question is that was the delay deliberate to shield the alleged
rapist, BSP MLA Purushottam Dwivedi? The inquiry officer, Additional
IG, prisons, Uttar Pradesh Yogesh Shukla says he will make sure that
justice is delivered.
Trusting the system isn't something that comes easily to the poor,
says Santosh Pal, the self styled leader of the Gulabi or the Pink
Saree gang. She and her band of illiterate housewives were the first
to question the theft charges against the Banda victim. She says she
is not surprised that a medical test wasn't ordered for the victim .
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Banda: The quest for justice for the rape victim in Banda is going
nowhere. An inquiry into why the Dalit girl had to spend 30 days in
jail for a theft that looks like a cover up for rape is going on. But
the shocker is why it took two weeks for the jailer to order a medical
inquiry after the victim had informed the jail staff of her plight. A
gap of seventeen days which makes it impossible to determine rape.
The question is that was the delay deliberate to shield the alleged
rapist, BSP MLA Purushottam Dwivedi? The inquiry officer, Additional
IG, prisons, Uttar Pradesh Yogesh Shukla says he will make sure that
justice is delivered.
Trusting the system isn't something that comes easily to the poor,
says Santosh Pal, the self styled leader of the Gulabi or the Pink
Saree gang. She and her band of illiterate housewives were the first
to question the theft charges against the Banda victim. She says she
is not surprised that a medical test wasn't ordered for the victim .
It is an unpleasant reality invisible India lives with every day with
justice often a commodity that the poor can't afford.
Right from the beginning the Banda rape story has been an unequal one.
A poor Dalit girl was pitted against a powerful politician with the
system at his back in call. How the story ends will say a lot about
our criminal justice system.
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