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BY-DN Singh
Incidents of crime against women and even minor girls are getting to be a new normal in many parts of the country but, in a God fearing state like Odisha the pace, frequency and impunity with which women and girls are on target is shocking.
Only one year to the completion of the double-engine government in Odisha the incumbent chief minister seems pushed to the wall in the face of realities at the bottom even when he never stops, like his mentor Narendra Modi, from milestone events and photo ups. Burning of girls/ women in different parts of the state were telling testimonies of lawlessness. Not a day passes when an incident of rape or killing attempt does not happen.
It was not the case of the self-immolation and subsequent death of the student in Odisha’s F M College in Balasore, however the tragic incident there blew off the lid that had been persistently attenuating the gloomy side of human conscience.
Some hours have passed to the death of Balasore victim, when in Puri district’s Balanga village another shocker surfaced in which a young girl was waylaid by three ,miscreants, molested, gagged and
then was set her on fire by dousing petrol on her. Although she survived the beastly act but now battling with death with 75% burning of her body. “Strange that the reason behind the crime still remains in suspense” told the victim’s aunt. A probe is underway.
Last June when the double engine government was agog for a milestone occasion when the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi was about to arrive in Odisha on June 20, the screams of a young lady from the Gopalpur sea beach in Ganjam district went unheard.
She was taken to an isolated location of the beach and gang raped by ten persons and then left abandoned at the far end of the sea beach while her friend was buttonholed with hands and legs tied before the crime was committed. A probe is underway although ten people were apprehended by the police in suspect till this report was filed.
Sadly, all that were happening on a backdrop of massive outrage post some more shocking incidents of atrocity on women in different other parts.
That was indeed a horrendous one when a woman was returning from the temple on June 25 was gang raped and abandoned with threats of killing if she opens her mouth.
Such criminals act with impunity when authorities turn mute onlookers.
The disturbing pattern continued when a woman in Mayurbhanj district was allegedly abducted by three motorcycle-borne assailants and gang-raped near Karanjia .
In a separate case, a Berhampur health centre operator — reportedly linked to the BJP — was arrested for raping a minor. Photographs of the accused with senior BJP leaders, including the Chief Minister, further embarrassed the ruling party.
Soon after, reports emerged of the alleged gang rape and murder of a 17-year-old tribal girl under Pandapada police station in Keonjhar district. In another incident, a woman from New Delhi was molested in Jajpur district. Both the cases are being probed by the police.
Citing information published by the Home Department and presented in the State Assembly, the Biju Janata Dal said, “Over 3,054 rape cases were reported in the last year alone, marking a steep rise in serious crimes like rape, abduction, and murder. This points to a severely deteriorating security environment for women and children in Odisha.”
A newly-married couple were subjected to inhumane punishment by the villagers for marrying against societal norms in Odisha`s Rayagada district. They were tied to a yoke like oxen and made to plough the field in a video that went viral on social media.
“The main cause behind such surge in crimes against women (including minor girls) can be attributed to the tardy process of law failing to catch up with the pace of crimes and even the absence of fast-track verdicts by the courts” opined Ritik Pramanik, activist and political commentator.
In this mess of lawlessness all over the state, it would be unfair to blame the Majhi-led government in the state alone.
More than 15,000 rape cases were registered in Odisha during the period from 2019 to 2022, Minister of State (MoS) for Home, Tusharkanti Behera had informed the Assembly. So the period in which the crimes were committed then the BJD was in power in Odisha.
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