MOVEMENT AGAINST MINOR’S BRUTAL GANGRAPE N MURDER GAINS MOMENTUM. UTTARAKHAND BANDH ON 22ND AUGUST

The tragic and shocking incident of the most obnoxious, horrible and shameful gangrape cum abominable murder of a mere twelve year old innocent dalit girl in Uttarkashi has gained great momentum in entire Uttarakhand with candle marches, protest demonstrations and burning of the chief minister’s effiges taking place at various locations of Garhwal, Uttarakhand and outside the state.

The people of the state are badly annoyed, angered and furious over this most heinous crime never ever happened in Uttarakhand earlier. The main political party in opposition, the Congress has also come out in the open to criticize and oppose the government on this shocking issue and have organised protest demonstrations at Dehradun and Uttarkashi giving a week’s ultimatum to the BJP’s state government n the chief minister to nab the culprits/ if nabbed then bring them to justice giving no less than capital punishment, through the fast track court, failing which the party will organise a state level protest.

In the meanwhile all the political parties, social organisations and the people in general have given the call for the, “Uttarakhand Bandh”, on 22nd June. So far several protest demonstrations including burning of CM’s effigies by different social organisations have been held in Chandigarh, Uttarkashi, Rudraprayag, Dehradun and several other areas of the state.

It is believed that the criminals involved in this gruesome act perhaps four in numbers have left the state/ some say have been caught and are beyond the reach of the investigation agencies and the police.

The entire state machinery has been geared up to trace the culprits and bring them to justice reveal sources.This is the seventh incident of women assault in Uttarkashi, this being the worst happening with serious implications.

It reminds us of the Kathua rape in which a minor girl was gangraped raped and brutally killed raising national outrage, the issue having been raised in both the houses of parliament as well.

Similarly, the most shameful gangrape that occured on December 2012 in Vasant Vihar, New Delhi in a moving bus and the heinous rape cum killing of the Nirbhaya of Nazafgarh hailing from Uttarakhand have raised the nationwide outrage and subsequent capital punishment to the human beasts involved in both these doabolical rape cum killings.

It finally resulted in the change of governments’ creating cumulative public disenchantment. If we look at the barbaric killing of the Uttarkashi girl , the ongoing protests and the increasing anger of the cross sections of the people in and outside the state , one should not hesitate to say that if such incidents of barbaric nature are allowed to continue and the state government proves futile to maintain the law n order and safeguard the womens’ lives it will be the waterloo for the incumbent government at the hustings.

What’s more worrisome is the fact hat now, in order to divert the peoples’ attention from the real issue some interested political leaders, communal outfits and reactionery forces are trying to give the entire episode a communal colour which is not in the harmonial health of the state. The fact of the matter is criminals do not have any religion, caste or ideological affinity.

They represent evil forces and destructive bent of mind. The government should look it from the law and order angle minutely and extremely seriously and ensure the complete security, safety and protection of the women community of the state especially the minors and incests instead of allowing the episode to be laced with communal colour of Hindu Muslim devide.

However some of the news reports suggest that the culprits of this shameful incident have been caught who happened to be a local and a pony owner. It is requested to one and all to kindly not get swayed away or influenced by the communal provocation by some disgruntled elements in the social media and exercise due restraint.