{"id":2886,"date":"2014-08-04T11:57:13","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T11:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nehadixit.in\/?p=2886"},"modified":"2023-09-08T11:08:26","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T11:08:26","slug":"shadow-lines-chilling-accounts-of-rape-survivors-in-muzaffarnagar-riots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nehadixit.in\/shadow-lines-chilling-accounts-of-rape-survivors-in-muzaffarnagar-riots\/","title":{"rendered":"Shadow Lines: Chilling accounts of rape survivors in Muzaffarnagar riots"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chilling accounts of rape survivors in the Jat-Muslim riot in Muzaffarnagar and Shamli that changed the contours of the UP election<\/p><\/div>\n

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NEHA DIXIT<\/a><\/div>\n
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“Why were we raped if a boy eve-teased a girl? Did the whole nation go about raping the women of the community of Nirbhaya\u2019s rapists to avenge what was done to her?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
She is someone I\u2019ll call S, not because she does not want the world to know her name, but because her identity has to be protected, for the consequences it might possibly have. S is one of the \u2018Muzaffarnagar rape victims\u2019, of the seven whose ordeal is the collective shame and guilt of our entire country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Around the end of August 2013, word was that a Muslim boy in Kawal village had eve-teased a Jat girl, though the incident remains uncorroborated till date. Her brother and cousin, in an attempt to safeguard their sister\u2019s \u2018honour\u2019, apparently killed him and were in turn allegedly lynched by an irate Muslim mob on the spot.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The men of both communities swore revenge. A congregation of Muslims did so after Friday prayers in Muzaffar\u00adnagar town; thousands of Hindu farmers gathered in Nanglamandor village some 15 to 20 km away on September 7, 2013, to ensure the avowed objective of \u2018beti bachao, bahu banao<\/em>\u00a0(save your daughters, make theirs (Muslims\u2019) your daughters-in-law\u2019. Several khap panchayats in the vicinity issued this call, with help from local BJP leaders, including MLA Suresh Rana, the recen\u00adtly-elected Hukum Singh, besides Sangeet Som and Sadhvi Prachi. The panchayat also declared a war against \u2018love jehad\u2019, perceived by the Hindu right-wing as an organised attempt by Muslims to \u201cmake Hindu girls fall in love with Muslim boys and marry them\u201d.<\/div>\n
It didn\u2019t take long for the patriarchal, sexist urge of the panchayat to put women and their \u2018honour\u2019 in the centre and transform it into communalist, political tinder. Rumour provided the fuel that would soon feed the raging communal fire.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The following morning, several villages woke up to the news that a Muslim mob had attacked groups of Jats returning from Kawal, killed them and dumped their bodies in Jauli canal, a Muslim-dominated area. Everyone heard it, in Lankh Bavdi, Lisad, Phugana, Kutba-Kutbi, Kirana, Budhana and Bahawdi. Thus began a vicious circle of violence and brutality. Mass rapes and sexual violence against women were freely used as instruments of asserting the power and authority of one community over the other. Officially, 72 people died, seven women were raped and a few hundreds injured. But visits to Ground Zero and conversations in relief camps suggest that many hundreds were killed, close to 100 women raped and over a lakh displaced from their homes forever.<\/p>\n

\"\"Nineteen women were subjected to rape, sodomy and murder of their kin in the compound of the village headman of Lankh village in Shamli district, an incident Outlook reported e<\/i>xtensively in its December 29, 2013, cover story,\u00a0Thread Bared<\/a>. They weren\u2019t the only ones, but \u2018honour\u2019 it was once again that came in the way of their speaking about it. Finally S and six other women dared to come forward and register cases against their rapists. Appearing on these pages are the stories of their courage\u2014and theirs alone.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Six of them have received the Rs 5 lakh compensation from the Uttar Pradesh government and a security guard each on the directions of the Supreme Court. Yet, not a single chargesheet has been filed, nor any arrests made in the last seven months, when the first case was registered.<\/div>\n
Deputy Superintendent of Police Shailendra Lal, praised by top politicians as well as the Supreme Court for \u201cthe good work of saving property and lives\u201d during the September 2013 communal riots, was suspended on June 18. Lal in his writ petition to the apex court says he got distress calls from BJP leader Sanjeev Baliyan in April this year. An accused in the Muzaffarnagar riots and now the minister of state for agriculture in the Union cabinet, Baliyan pulled up Lal for stopping local BJP leaders from pressuring voters on polling day in Muzaffar\u00adnagar. \u201cBahut time se teri harkatein dekhta aa raha hoon<\/em>\u00a0(I have been noticing what you have been doing for a long time now),\u201d he apparently told Lal, \u201cagar hamare khilaf aur kaam kiya to tujhe dekh loonga<\/em>\u00a0(if you continue to work against us, it won\u2019t do you any good).\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
For the seven who dared to rise above social stigma and opposition from within their families and community, new threats flow incessant from the accused, local leaders and police, asking them to withdraw their cases. Kf, one of these seven, alleges that the current pradhan of the village, Thaam Singh, reached out to her on behalf of Baliyan, to accept Rs 30 lakh and drop the case.<\/div>\n
Special Investigation Officer Mala Yadav, who has been appointed for these cases, refuses comment on the slow pace of investigation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
What is refusing to be stifled, however, is the voice of courage these seven women have displayed, whose bitterness, rage and agony are tempered by the stronger determination to bring the perpetrators to book, and move on. Read these voices also as a challenge to the selective outrage of a nation that bleeds for a while when one Nirbhaya is raped but chooses not to say a word when countless other Nirbhayas are subjected to such ignominy in their daily lives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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A Settling Of Dues<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
Sb, 40, Fugana village, Muzaffarnagar district\u2019s
\nFour accused<\/strong>\u00a0Chargesheet yet to be filed<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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“They inserted a big stick into me, and I started bleeding. They revelled seeing that, then raped me.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To a prejudiced mind, she might not seem a typical rape survivor. Her presence is dominating, her voice loud and hoarse. As she leads me to the courtyard of her house, away from the men, to talk to me in private, she slaps her seven-year-old son for following us. She\u2019s also quick to send her teenage daughter away. \u201cI haven\u2019t told my children what happened. I don\u2019t want their minds to be conditi\u00adoned by this,\u201d she tells me as she gestures for me to sit on the jute cot.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cWhen you come out with this report, send me the link,\u201d she tells me. I will see it on the internet on my phone.\u201d<\/div>\n
Her husband, M, a salesman in Rajasthan, came only 15 days after she was raped and escorted to the relief camp by paramilitary forces. He left a month later, after helping her file the case. She has been by herself since then, taking care of her four children and her old but supportive mother-in-law.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cI had worked in their fields as an agricultu\u00adral labourer for 15 days last harvest season. I kept pleading for months, but I never got paid. They said because I was fat, I didn\u2019t do as much work as the others,\u201d says Sb.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Since news of the violence had already reached the village on September 7, her mother-in-law had left with three of her grandchildren to a relative\u2019s place in Loni the day before. \u201cI had feared more for my teenaged granddaughter,\u201d says J, the grandmother, \u201cbut I never imagined they would do this to her mother.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Four men, whom she remembers as Rahul, Mohit, Sudhir and Arvind entered her house and put a gun to her temple. \u201cThey said if I screamed, they would kill my two-year-old son sleeping on the cot,\u201d Sb recalls in horror. \u201cThey inserted a big stick into me, and I started bleeding. They revelled in seeing that, and then proceeded to rape me.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
She came to with a cellphone call from her brother-in-law, Ashu. \u201cHe called asking for help after one of his hands was maimed in the violence outside. I collected myself, gra\u00adbbed my son and ran to the village common ground where the PAC had arrived,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
A day before my visit, Rambeer, father of two of the four alleged rapists, and on whose field Sb had worked, had come to threaten her. She had forgotten her aukaat (station in life), he said, and that it wouldn\u2019t take him long to make her daughter disapp\u00adear. \u201cIt\u2019s not new for them,\u201d Sb tells me. \u201cJheemar and Chamar women in their fields are raped regularly before getting payment. I did not agree to it, so I was raped during the riots.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Of Sons And Daughters<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
Kf, 48, Fugana village, Muzaffarnagar district
\nFour accused<\/strong>\u00a0Chargesheet yet to be filed Compensation not received<\/p>\n

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“(Raped by the local grocery owner, the tailor), \u201cI fainted by the time the third one started.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cI married off one of my daughters in the relief camp itself before registering the case,\u201d says Kf. \u201cAfter all that happened, I wasn\u2019t sure if I\u2019d be able to protect her. Also, no one would have married her thereafter.\u201d<\/div>\n
Kf was gang-raped by Devender, the local grocery shop owner; Sunil, the tailor, Ram Kumar and Dharmendra. \u201cI fainted by the time the third one started.\u201d<\/div>\n
When the forces came to pick them up later, the naara (drawstring) of her salwar had broken. Gesturing, Kf says she just clutched her salwar tight and sat meekly in the corner of the truck.<\/div>\n
She withdrew her case after armed Jat men held a gun to her son\u2019s temple in the middle of the town square, asking her to withdraw the case. \u201cHe is my only son. I cannot even have any more children, so I got scared.\u201d But when she saw other rape survivors filing cases, she got back to fighting the case.<\/div>\n
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Recently, one of the Jat men came up to her husband and said, \u201cAb to apne ghar ki sarkar aa gayi\u201d. It\u2019s nothing new, she says. \u201cSloganeering like\u00a0\u2018Musalman ke do sthaan, Kabristan ya Pakistan\u2019<\/em>\u00a0had peaked a few months before the riots,\u201d she says.<\/div>\n
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She has stopped sending her son to school now. \u201cI feel scared.\u201d She was offered Rs 30 lakh recently to drop the case. \u201cI have been raped but have not stooped so low yet,\u201d she declares.<\/div>\n
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The Perils Of A Glib Tongue<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
S, mid-30s, Lankh village, Shamli district
\nThree accused roam scot-free<\/strong>\u00a0Chargesheet yet to be filed
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“Before they could break open the door, I ran out into the cane fields. Only to realise I had left my son back.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Short, plump and so full of life that you do not cease to get amazed. Mother of two boys, she says, \u201cI am not like those Muslims who think that it is Allah\u2019s wish to keep having kid after kid. These two are enough for me. I want them to go to a proper private school, not a madrassa. My mother says it is this glib tongue of mine which has brought this misfortune on me.\u201d<\/div>\n
She serves me chilled Maaza, bought a few minutes ago from the shop next door. \u201cIt is mango season,\u201d she tells me. \u201cI would have fed you Chausa had you come to Lankh.\u201d She stares into the vacuum a brief second, then resumes, with a smile, \u201cAnyhow, for now, let\u2019s make do with this.\u201d Chausa is a variety of mango grown in parts of western UP, and hailed as the king of mangoes.<\/div>\n
She puts a stool in front of me, places the bottle of Maaza on it, drags the new pedestal fan from the front room and switches it on. \u201cLast night was the first in 10 months that I slept under a fan; we had three at our tailoring shop back home,\u201d she informs me. She and her husband V were both tailors before their shop, their belongings and life was set on fire. \u201cNow, a journalist didi just like you has bought us a sewing machine. One day I hope to open a sewing school,\u201d she says.<\/div>\n
On that fateful morning, September 8, her elder son had been down with fever. V was with him in hospital when the violence broke out. \u201cI heard my uncle and aunt in the neighbourhood calling out to me to run.\u201d She couldn\u2019t make sense of what was happening till their screeching reached her before the mob did. \u201cBefore they could break open the door, I ran out of the back door, straight into the sugarcane fields. I stopped only an hour later to realise I had left my younger son beh\u00adind,\u201d S recounts. She was hiding behind the Bright Zone School on the Muz\u00adaffarnagar-Shamli highway when three men\u2014Kuldeep, Sikander and Mahinder\u2014caught hold of her, and raped her turn by turn. \u201cI couldn\u2019t get up till 4 or 5 in the evening when I heard a tempo. It was taking several people from my village to Loni. A woman gave me a hand and I got on to it,\u201d she says.<\/div>\n
V and her sons found her three days later, at the Loni relief camp. \u201cI told him what had happened to me only the next day. He was supportive enough to tell me it was not my fault.\u201d She looks out at her husband, standing at the far end of the compound they have bought with the money received as compensation. \u201cUnlike other rape survivors from my village, I\u2019ve decided to fight my case and will not withdraw it because I want other women to speak out as well,\u201d she says determinedly.<\/div>\n
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Moving on is essential. S is doing her best. But every so often, it sits between them, the \u2018taint\u2019. \u201cNow, if he disagrees with me even a little, I think it\u2019s because of the rape. Earl\u00adier, when we\u2019d fight, I\u2019d give it back to him. Now I keep quiet. I\u2019ve learnt to tame my tongue.\u201d<\/div>\n
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The Walking Dead<\/span><\/div>\n
Fm, 52, Fugana village, Muzaffarnagar district
\nFive accused\u00a0<\/strong>Chargesheet yet to be filed<\/div>\n

“Boys my son\u2019s age did not flinch even for a moment before pulling my salwar down.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

She had taken her cattle out to graze that morning when five men dragged her into an empty house, and raped her. \u201cBoys my son\u2019s age did not flinch a moment before pulling my salwar down,\u201d says Fm, shuddering. As if it was about keeping count. They even described my genitals to the boys in the house next door, who replied, \u2018The one here is masaledar\u2019.\u201d Ajit Singh, Saini, Vedpal, Sachin and Yogesh then vandalised the house, and left. \u201cI wondered why they didn\u2019t kill me like the men they had murdered later. For women, I guess, it means the same thing.\u201d She is among the Walking Dead.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Her husband had passed away a couple of years earlier, leaving behind two sons and three daughters. \u201cWhen Mala Yadav, the SIT inspector, came to record\u00a0 my statement, she asked others in the camp, \u2018Did anyone see her crying? Did she tell anyone of you about the rape?\u2019 How will they know about it, I wanted to ask her,\u201d she tells me.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The men mentioned in her complaint know each word of what she had told Yadav. \u201cUnlike others, I am a woman who is revealing publicly that she was raped. Why\u00a0\u00a0 will I lie? After the investigation, even those who didn\u2019t know I was raped now know, thanks to the police\u2019s indiscretion,\u201d says Fm. Back in Fugana, accused brothers Ajit and Saini say they have not even seen this woman ever. \u201cWe want a CBI investigation,\u201d they tell me. \u201cThese cases are politically motivated.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Her sons, both teenagers, have become part of the jamaat that has been managing the relief camps. \u201cOne day they told me to cover my hair. I was shocked to see them behave so. But they too must have heard details about their mother\u2019s rape to feel this way,\u201d she says.<\/div>\n
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The Ghosts Of Yesterday<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
T, Early 20s, Fugana village, Muzaffarnagar district
\nFour accused\u00a0<\/strong>Chargesheet yet to be filed<\/p>\n

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“They raped me as my little girls watched and cried. I begged them to leave me alive for their sake.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There cannot be a crueller joke for a rape victim to fight a case when she is eight months pregnant for a gang rape that took place nine months earlier. \u201cThe investigating cop asked me, \u2018kiska hai\u00a0<\/em>(whose is it)\u2019, with a smirk. Fellow women also asked me, \u2019itni jaldi kya padi thi<\/em>(what was the big hurry)?\u2019 What do I say to that? As if the rape before or the pregnancy afterwards were in my hands,\u201d says T, as she runs a comb through her hair. Dressed in an olive-green salwar-kurta, she is a mother of three girls and hopes her fourth will be a boy.<\/div>\n
On the morning of September 8, she was cooking in the kitchen when Ranbir, Sanjeev, Pushpendra and Rupesh broke open the wooden door and attacked her. \u201cThey raped me as my little girls watched and cried. I begged them to do whatever they wanted with me but leave me alive for my girls,\u201d she says matter-of-factly, emotion long elided out of her speech.<\/div>\n
Her husband, X, had been out with fellow Muslims to meet Harpal Singh, the former pradhan of the village, to ask for help. \u201cWhile he was assuring us that nothing would happen to us, his cousins and relatives were raping my wife,\u201d he\u00a0 says.<\/div>\n
Harpal too has been accused in cases of murder and rioting. \u201cWhen he met me recently at the police station, he told me, \u2018That day you were pleading before me, today you want to take me to court\u2019,\u201d says X. \u201cHe said this in front of the police officer, who also happens to be his nephew.\u201d X claims that the police records videos of their statements and then shows it to the Jats in the\u00a0 village so that they can identify the complainants against them.<\/div>\n
In January, X\u2019s cousin was booked for rioting, robbery and having links with the Lashkar-e-Toiba. When reported in the media, the charges were removed overnight. \u201cDuring interrogation, he was asked to convince me to withdraw the case,\u201d says X, as a guard provided to the couple by the Supreme Court recently cleans his gun nearby. \u201cI can go out only with them now,\u201d says X. \u201cEven now, if you step out, you will find some or the other Jat lurking in the vicinity to negotiate with riot victims who have filed cases of rioting.\u201d<\/div>\n
T says the only other rape case she had heard of until then apart from Nirbhaya\u2019s was of a Brahmin girl in her village. \u201cSanjeev\u2019s father and relatives had raped and killed a girl a number of years back in our village because she was found with one of the Jat boys in a sugarcane field. Her ghost can still be seen in that part of the village,\u201d she says. \u201cAfter the riots, the whole village will be full of ghosts. I don\u2019t want to go back there, ever.\u201d<\/div>\n
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A Matter Of Honour<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
F, mid-20s, Fugana village, Muzaffarnagar district
\nFour accused\u00a0<\/strong>Chargesheet yet to be filed<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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“My lower abdomen hurts, still does, continuously. I would bleed often. Only my husband knew.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When I reach F\u2019s rented accommodation in Kandhla, she is busy washing off the dried henna from the soles of her two-month-old daughter\u2019s feet. \u201cThis is to keep her body temperature normal in this killing heat,\u201d she tells me.<\/div>\n
She was three months pregnant with this child when she was raped by four men. She didn\u2019t recognise the men who barged in with their faces covered and swo\u00adrds and guns in their hands. She heard them call each other Nilu, Badlu and Amardeen. \u201cTwo held my hands and legs, while the others raped me,\u201d she tells me. \u201cThey said if I told anyone, they\u2019d kill me. I kept quiet because I didn\u2019t want to faint or die.\u201d<\/div>\n
Her husband, who had been on the terrace when the men broke in, ran away with their five-year-old son, a student of Class I. Paramilitary forces rescued her later in the evening, when all Muslim families were ushered into relief camps.<\/div>\n
F lived in the Jogia Khera relief camp for the next two-and-a-half months. \u201cMy lower abdomen hurt, still does, continuously. I would bleed often and when I met doctors at the relief camp, they\u2019d tell me it was because I was pregnant. I had obviously not told them about what had happened to me. Only my husband knew and he asked me to keep quiet about it,\u201d she says. She relied on desi medicines to ease the pain and eventually had to have a caesarian section for the baby.<\/div>\n
W, her husband, was a salesman with bag manufacturing companies in Rajasthan. The twentysomething hasn\u2019t returned to work in the last nine months, constantly guarding his wife and family. \u201cHe is too scared to leave us alone,\u201d says F. \u201cBut how will we manage if he does not go back to earn. Please don\u2019t tell him I told you this.\u201d<\/div>\n
W sits on a cot outside, dressed in a plain vest. \u201cI know rapists have no religion,\u201d he tells me, \u201cbut just 20 days back, when a woman was gang raped by 7-8 Muslims in Shahpur, the police took immediate action and arrested the people involved. The same police has done nothing in our case till date.\u201d<\/div>\n
Asking for directions to F and W\u2019s house, a man identified him immediately: \u201cWahi jo bhaag gaya tha jab uski biwi ke saath galat kaam ho raha tha? Ajeeb aadmi hai<\/em>\u00a0(the same one who ran away while his wife was being raped? Strange man.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Offering random and extra information to strangers is commonplace in the rural parts of north India. As is becoming the butt of misogynist jokes in the patriarchal set-up of western UP, the pressures of which justify W\u2019s passive aggression. \u201cEveryone knows my wife was raped and I couldn\u2019t save her. My honour is lost. The least I can do now is fight it out in court and show them their place,\u201d he says, teeth firmly clenched. \u201cFriends and relatives of those who have been named in the FIR keep visiting this area to get us to compromise. The other day, they threatened to burn down our present house. I chased them out with bricks. Enough is enough, this time it will be an eye for an eye.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Impotence Is Not An Empty Rage<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
K, 50, Fugana village, Muzaffarnagar district
\nFour accused\u00a0<\/strong>Chargesheet yet to be filed<\/p>\n

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“When investigating officer Mala Yadav came to our camp, she asked if anyone had seen my torn clothes!\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cThey laughed at me for filing a rape case. A Jat man walked up to me and said an infertile (woman) now wants to feel attractive,\u201d says K. It\u2019s true she filed the case because she does not have any children. She thought it would be easier for her to fight it out compared to the other rape survivors who have family honour to think about.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cRecently Naresh Tikait, president of the Bharat Kisan Union, said that what had happened to us was a trailer, and the film was still pending. What more does he want,\u201d asks K in despair. \u201cThe police is pressuring us, the locals are threatening us and our own people are scared to talk to us for fear of the influential Jats.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
On September 8, her husband, who was on the terrace, jumped when he saw the armed mob metres away from the house. K was downstairs when four men caught hold of her and raped her for half an hour.<\/div>\n
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\u201cWhen Mala Yadav came to record my statement, she asked people in the camp if anybody had seen my torn clothes. She even said that having a full-time guard sent by the Supreme Court would not be enough and that I should compromise,\u201d she tells me, eyes red with unshed tears.<\/div>\n
In Fugana, Mehak Singh, father of the accused Ramesh, says, \u201cHas she looked at her face? Such an old hag. Why will my son rape her?\u201d<\/div>\n
Z, her husband, is the government-appointed paroikar in all of the seven cases. He ran a dairy in the village and had invested in the small businesses his nephews ran. \u201cThe pradhan that day confused us by telling us that we were safe and nothing would happen,\u201d he says. \u201cWe didn\u2019t even get a chance to come together to face them.\u201d Says his wife, \u201cI don\u2019t know what is better, being infertile or being raped. With a rape, you can at least fight back. I am doing exactly that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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By Neha Dixit in Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts; Photographs by Jitender Gupta<\/em><\/div>\n
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Published by Outlook magazine on August 4, 2014<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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