A Muslim girl has been burnt alive in India after she refused to marry a Hindu boy. Reports say a young man, with his father and another man, killed the girl. No, it is the gangsters of the fascist Sangh Parivaar — led by PM Narendra Modi and his home minister, Satish Shah — who have brutally killed the young girl considering the atmosphere of fear and misery that these monsters have created in the country. The police are reluctant to arrest the culprits because they are influential people. There are, however, reports that the prime suspect has been arrested a few days ago.
After Modi came to power in 2014, rape and other crimes against women in India have increased manifold. Women from all communities and regions are being raped, murdered and forced to commit self-immolation on the funeral pyre of their husbands. In the present case, the three perpetrators are Hindu and the girl happens to be a Muslim. Satish Rai and two other men set the girl named Gulnaz on fire while she stepped out of her house to dispose of garbage. She died on Nov 15, nearly two weeks after the incident, in a hospital. The FIR of the incident was lodged on Nov 2. In her dying declaration, she told the police that Satish had long been forcing her to marry him. A few years ago in IIOJK, an eight-year-old Muslim girl was murdered after being gang-raped. In 2012, a young girl died after she was subjected to gang-rape and torture in a bus in Delhi. According to official report, 32,033 rape cases were registered in India in 2019.
In Modi’s India, rapists enjoy impunity. Many Hindu men and women have been gunned down for raising their voice against superstition and the suffocating atmosphere in the country. Women of India have long been crying out Sahir Ludhianvi’s poem: Madad chahti hai yeh hauaa ki beti/Zulaikha ki humjins, Radha ki beti/Kahan hain, kahan hain jinhen Hind pe naaz hai who kahan hain.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 20th, 2020.
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