1. Deep
Kanwar from Village: Gandlas Age:65
raped in 2003
A windowed grandma gave a bigger share in her little land to the younger grandson
(because he was poorer than the other one). The elder grandson was so angry at this
that he came with his 2 lower caste men and got her raped in his presence when
she was sleeping all alone in the farm field. When she protested they inserted
a sharp big long object which pierced her thigh. She kept on shouting and wailing
for help even after they left for a long time but nobody heard her. She lay
there injured all alone all night. Finally in the morning she managed to reach
home adn told everybody about what happened and every body was shocked.
Grandson molesting his grandma is so unbelieavably shocking ..that nobody could
digest it.
She fought for a long time to get justice but people would hardly believe
her. Because of this for many days they did not take this case seriously and no
action was taken against the criminals. Finally after Taraji’s organization helped
her collect evidence after a lot of resistance finally police was ready to file
an FIR. Community head’s meetings (panchayat) was called to get justice.
Finally she got justice..the whole community outcasted her grandson and he got
jailed for 7 years.
This
case was especially important to honor since it takes a lot of courage for a
grandma to fight her own grandson and bring out the ugliness of the family out
in the society. Everybody in the village respects Deep Kanwar since she chose
to fight for justice even when the criminal was within her family. She did not
bow down to family pressure and spread the message that a criminal is a
criminal ..even if he is your own grandson and we should fight against them. It
spread a positive message to all those females suffering violence within their
own families at the hand of their relatives to speak up!
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