1. Pooja Mali : Resident of Bhilwara 2006
When Pooja was 12 year old . Her Neighbor Anil Mali came over and kidnapped her with the intention to sell her in a brothel in Mumbai. He first took her to the Kota train station and raped her. While boarding the train from kota to Mumbai he had to get down for some information and other stuff …Something about him made 2 policemen from Rajasthan state suspicious and they started questioning him. While doing this Anil got scared and he told the policemen all about his plans and bad deeds. Over hearing this conversation 2 policemen from MP state dropped by , showed sympathy to her and told her that they will take her safely back to her parents. Innocent Pooja was soo grateful to them and she could not stop thanking them and calling them her god send saviors.They took both Anilr and Pooja both to a place near police station in MP and called up 2 of their senior officer inviting them for a grand party. Then they forced pooja to drink lot of liquor and gang raped her and treated her in the most inhumane way. She was lying drenched in blood and was crying in pain in half-conscious state..Thats when they realized that things might have gone too far ..and they might get in trouble.So they asked Anil to take her away. In Bhilwara Pooja’s parents reported her missing at the police station ..while here in MP Anil decided to halt his plan to take pooja to sell in mumbai ..given her condition. While he was returning from Kota to Bhilwara the Rajasthan policemen questioned him based on the “missing” report identification. Finally Pooja’s poor parents left their daily work when they were reported about her whereabouts. And somehow scrambled money to travel to kota to get their daughter back from the subhashnagar police station.
Whats surprising is that for 3 days police
officers were not even ready file an FIR
for her case. They kept on asking them to come back some other time ..while
they were busy partying and getting bribed from the criminals. Third day
exhausted and disheartened parents of pooja finally contacted Taraji. I
(taraji) immediately took them to the senior police officer and told him the
whole horrendous incident. Within ½ hr Subhashnagar’s police station officer
Abhay singh was removed from his post and a new incharge was appointed. When
media got more attention to this case then the 4 police officers who gang raped
her also got arrested. Till date this case is still being fought in the court
and the accused are in jail.
Pooja was chosen for this honor specially
because in last 6 years the poor girl, poor parents have been given thousands
of offers to settle the case. The 4 criminals have made numerous attempts to
lure them with 5 lakh rupees, house, tractor e.t.c to suppress the charges. But inspite of all
hardships and immense poverty they have every time denied their offer and were
resolved to fight for their daughter’s justice with Taraji. Taraji herself has
received life threats and kidnapping threats of her single child .. but they
all remain true to their resolve to fight this case in the court till Pooja
gets justice.
