Crime against women
has become the latest fad in Bengal; whether it is the infamous Park Street case
episode in Kolkata or the gang rape and murder of a teenager in Madhyamgram of
late, the saga continues. Fate of culprits in these cases is now shared by
Sheikh Moti. He has been arrested on January 3, 2014 from the village of Khaitan
in Dubrajpur for raping a five-year old girl in Suri, Birbhum on last Tuesday. It
has been learnt, he has been sent to jail custody for 14 days.
The dreadful
incident occurred on last Tuesday when Laxmi Majhi (named changed) was playing with
her friends in the courtyard of Hemanta Mahara in Saddipara in Ward no. 12 in
the town of Suri within the district of Birbhum. The culprit who lives in Rutipara
visited Hemanta’s residence on that day. While he was talking to Hemanta, Moti
saw Laxmi and allegedly dragged her into Hemanta’s residence and raped her. Locals
affirm that Hemanta and his wife’s silence incited him to go on with the heinous
crime. When Laxmi, at night, informed her father that she was ailing, she was
taken to a gynecologist and then
to the Suri hospital. After a thorough medical examination there, it was
confirmed that she had been raped. Laxmi’s father filed an official complaint
against Sheikh Moti to rape Laxmi and also against Hemanta Mahara and Rekha
Mahara (his wife) for abetting the crime.
Perhaps as part of a custom, police here also, locals allege,
remained laid-back in the beginning and only a furious civil movement compelled
it to act fast and nab Sheikh Moti finally. But the absconding couple including
Hemanta and his wife is yet to be found.
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