Five years ago, a girl from a small town, Betul, in Madhya Pradesh, went missing while on a trip to Vaishno Devi. Her mother, Imarti Bai, kept mum even though she knew what had happened to her daughter. She had been pushed into prostitution by a well-organised gang of human traffickers in her village.
Years later, the same fate was planned by Rani Yadav, the head of the human trafficking business, for Imarti Bai's younger daughter. She was a class eighth student who was raped by one of the gang members, Rajesh Hajore. The abduction and rape was followed by Imarti Bai lodging a complaint against rani yadav and others at the village police station. Six weeks of running from pillar to post, with nobody paying heed to her cries, the inevitable happened.
On that fateful night, Imarti Bai was shot by Rani Yadav's husband in her own house, for she complained about them to the police. Thus ended the voice of justice in Betul, Madhya Pradesh.
A film script? No, not at all. It's a true life story of Imarti Bai. In India, we may find a thousand similar stories to this one. And the recent case to come in the public view is that of Imarti Bai's. But what must have happened to the other girls who stood up against the injustice they encountered?
A mother's fear that her daughter would be kidnapped and sold into the flesh trade drove imarti bai to stand up against the goons. The roots of her anger lay in the incident where her elder daughter was pushed into flesh trade by the very same Rani Yadav.
These people involved in the human trafficking have a very simple agenda: they first rape the girl. This naturally change the girl's life, and nobody would agree to marry a raped girl. And taking advantage of this situation, she would be pushed into flesh trade or prostitution.
But when a person stands against this injustice, aren't the police responsible to help her? But in this case, the police instead of taking charge, turned a deaf ear to Imarti Bai's pleas. Had they listened to her intently and provided some protection to her when she had asked, she would have been there to protect her daughter from the goons even today. This shows us the irresponsible behaviour of the police in states like Madhya Pradesh.
We say India is developing but is it really?If it is truly changing, then why aren't the horrors of prostitution and rape disappearing with the changing times? Why isn't the position of women changing in the country? If reports are to be believed the police told Imarti Bai to go to an schedule-tribe police station, as she belonged to the tribal community. Is protection given to the common man on the basis of his caste and category in our country? If so, then why do we say that the line between the classes and castes is gradually fading?
Incidents like these show that with changing times the line is becoming thicker and thicker than ever. As for the human trafficking business, the modus operandi has not changed for many years and we the common man is still falling prey to their trap.
People don't care about what others are undergoing in their lives. Had the witnesses stopped the abduction of the young girl (which happened in front of about 120 people), the fate of the young girl would have been very different from what it is now. But nobody helped her, and nobody will ever help any other girl. It's a shame, that in a crowd of 120 people nobody felt like helping the innocent girl.
Human trafficking is a heinous crime, it has to be stopped. But it is in our hands to save the world from this evil. Because as Fannie Lou Hamer, the American social activist, said, "Nobody's free until everybody's free".
Years later, the same fate was planned by Rani Yadav, the head of the human trafficking business, for Imarti Bai's younger daughter. She was a class eighth student who was raped by one of the gang members, Rajesh Hajore. The abduction and rape was followed by Imarti Bai lodging a complaint against rani yadav and others at the village police station. Six weeks of running from pillar to post, with nobody paying heed to her cries, the inevitable happened.
On that fateful night, Imarti Bai was shot by Rani Yadav's husband in her own house, for she complained about them to the police. Thus ended the voice of justice in Betul, Madhya Pradesh.
A film script? No, not at all. It's a true life story of Imarti Bai. In India, we may find a thousand similar stories to this one. And the recent case to come in the public view is that of Imarti Bai's. But what must have happened to the other girls who stood up against the injustice they encountered?
A mother's fear that her daughter would be kidnapped and sold into the flesh trade drove imarti bai to stand up against the goons. The roots of her anger lay in the incident where her elder daughter was pushed into flesh trade by the very same Rani Yadav.
These people involved in the human trafficking have a very simple agenda: they first rape the girl. This naturally change the girl's life, and nobody would agree to marry a raped girl. And taking advantage of this situation, she would be pushed into flesh trade or prostitution.
But when a person stands against this injustice, aren't the police responsible to help her? But in this case, the police instead of taking charge, turned a deaf ear to Imarti Bai's pleas. Had they listened to her intently and provided some protection to her when she had asked, she would have been there to protect her daughter from the goons even today. This shows us the irresponsible behaviour of the police in states like Madhya Pradesh.
We say India is developing but is it really?If it is truly changing, then why aren't the horrors of prostitution and rape disappearing with the changing times? Why isn't the position of women changing in the country? If reports are to be believed the police told Imarti Bai to go to an schedule-tribe police station, as she belonged to the tribal community. Is protection given to the common man on the basis of his caste and category in our country? If so, then why do we say that the line between the classes and castes is gradually fading?
Incidents like these show that with changing times the line is becoming thicker and thicker than ever. As for the human trafficking business, the modus operandi has not changed for many years and we the common man is still falling prey to their trap.
People don't care about what others are undergoing in their lives. Had the witnesses stopped the abduction of the young girl (which happened in front of about 120 people), the fate of the young girl would have been very different from what it is now. But nobody helped her, and nobody will ever help any other girl. It's a shame, that in a crowd of 120 people nobody felt like helping the innocent girl.
Human trafficking is a heinous crime, it has to be stopped. But it is in our hands to save the world from this evil. Because as Fannie Lou Hamer, the American social activist, said, "Nobody's free until everybody's free".
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