5 women on anti-trafficking awareness camp raped at gunpoint in Jharkhand


Ranchi, Jun 22 (DC): Five young women from a non-profit organisation conducting an awareness campaign in Jharkhand have been abducted and gangraped at gunpoint by half-a-dozen men. The men accompanying them have been thrashed.

The incident took place on Tuesday evening at Arki, where the 11-member team had gone to stage a street play against human trafficking.

A group of armed men barged in the middle of the performance, beat up the men and took away the women at gunpoint.

The police have detained nine people for questioning. Medical examination has confirmed rape and a case has been filed.

Reports say the shocking incident occurred in a village that endorses Patthalgadi. Senior police officers and administrative officials both opine that Patthalgadi supporters were involved.

Patthalgadi is a traditional tribal practice where stone slabs with names of ancestors are put up.

Of late, the traditional practice has taken political colours where supporters adhering to it urge people not to allow government officials and police to enter their areas.

Khunti has been witnessing Patthalgadi protests for the past many months. Stone slabs installed outside villages entrance announce that the writ of the government did not run there and the “gram sabha was all-powerful”.

The supporters of Patthalgadi keep a watch and do not allow government servants to enter villages without permission.

  

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  • Vincent Rodrigues, Bengaluru/Katapadi

    Fri, Jun 22 2018

    Jarkhand is really getting as spoiled and become a state of lawlessness and caos.

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  • Khursheed, Abu Dhabi

    Fri, Jun 22 2018

    Sab ka saath..... Rape ka vikas .....

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  • Jenifer, Mangalore

    Fri, Jun 22 2018

    Is Arki an island ? Do they sustain on self cultivation ? Don't they have roads stretching out of the area and electricity/water/telephone connections ? Aren't schools/hospitals/government offices run there ?

    Close the roads, no vehicles going in/out. Cut water/electricity and any food supply. When the people suffer because of their own misrules, they will come begging for help. If the government who provides them with all the facilities need to beg for permission to enter their den, something is surely wrong.

    Someone must teach them what is right and wrong. If they are abducting/raping those who come to educate them against social evils, first the law must be taught to them. Let them abide by the nation's law first, then the rest will be discussed.

    Send RSS goons, who say they are the owners of all tribes in the nation. Give the organization an assignment to straighten the inhabitants. Why a non-profit-NGO members lose their dignity and eventually their life over some matter that someday RSS will come and claim ownership ?

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  • Prashanth, Bangalore

    Fri, Jun 22 2018

    What's RSS got to do with this ??

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  • Jenifer, Mangalore

    Fri, Jun 22 2018

    Young man, RSS is reaching the area after all are helped, brought out from their bad habits, educated and assisted to find jobs.

    RSS forgets all the work done by the NGOs but only sees that the tribal are converted. That is why, why delay till they are converted (if at all) ? Go now, and do the dirty work that the NGO are doing. Take the credit for everything - nobody will object.

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  • Peter, KSA

    Fri, Jun 22 2018

    What RSS has got to do with this ? Then why the broom moustachewalla was boasting he has foot soldiers who if necessary will fight at border ? If they are so brave why cant he send them to this village to straighten up lawless inhabitants there ? No guts ? Everyone knows what chaddies can do. They r brave to attack women, helpless dalits, innocent minority. No guts to face one to one. Yellow chickens.

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  • Narain, Mangaluru

    Fri, Jun 22 2018

    so sad

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