This is heartbreaking..can see the innocent faces getting the shock of their life. Did anyone see Chandni Bar, where Tabu acted so well?, she was first assaulted by her own uncle in that movie....excuse me, but castration shouldn't totally be gone. I was a bit shocked when a friend suggested this for some cases, but come to think of it, I think it should be used to discourage people from doing nasty and harmful things and thus spoiling these young girls' lives. And these easy money-makers should be exposed and put in jail [without parole], period.
These men need to straighten out, so these young girls will not suffer anymore. This profession was there in olden days, when these men did not know better (huh!) and in many instances, practically the law was in favor of them, but why is it still there today?
>From: Saurav Pathak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: AssamNet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: [Assam] girls from assam cheap in haryana
>Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:26:13 -0400
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>http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20030811&fname=Haryana+%28F%29&sid=1
>
>Magazine| Aug 11, 2003
>
>Haryana
>
>The Cloning Of Kamla
>
>Mewat is seeing a bull run. Here, girls from Assam come cheaper than
>cattle.
>
>POORNIMA JOSHI
>Floods in Assam are a cause for much delight to those involved in
>the flesh trade in distant Haryana. More distress means the crashing
>of prices of the most sought-after commodity from the northeastern
>stateyoung girls who serve as sex slaves. Mewat region, a belt that
>runs south and southwest of Delhi, is now one of the biggest markets
>where thousands of girls are sold at prices ranging from Rs 4,000 to
>Rs 20,000. The variation in price depends on the physical condition
>and the degree of abuse inflicted on the girl from the time she was
>bought from her village in Assam.
>
>NGOs working against the trafficking of girls believe that there are
>good reasons for 'buyers' from Haryana to travel nearly 2,000
>kilometres to procure girls. "It is simple," says Rishi Kant of
>Shakti Vahini, an organisation fighting for sex workers' rights.
>"They all come very cheap. You can buy a girl for Rs 4,000. It is
>cheaper than buying cattle. Of course, in Assam, people in the
>villages actually believe that the girls are leaving home for a
>better life."
>
>Last month, police rescued four minor girls from the Hatin block in
>Faridabad district. Each of these was procured for a price by a tout
>named Hanif. He is now behind bars but the real horror is the wide
>social sanction the practice of procuring girls for a price has in
>this belt. Villagers refuse to accept there's anything wrong about
>buying or selling girls. The practice is discussed openly and is
>prevalent among all communities. Women, they say, are property and
>the state has no business interfering in such "personal" matters.
>
>Which is why the whole of Buraka village sympathises with Shahzadi.
>"I bought Farida (name changed) for Rs 12,000," she tells you. "I
>had to sell part of my land for that. Now the police have taken her
>and one of my sons away. What is wrong if the girl chooses to be
>sold and I choose to buy her for my sons?"
>
>Nothing, if you ask the villagers. They describe how Hanif, the
>tout, had brought Farida to Buraka village for selling her to
>"whoever could pay the price". Recalls Shahzadi's neighbour Fateh
>Mohammad: "She was sitting right there under the tree. Hanif was
>showing her off because she was to be sold. All of us went to have a
>look. Shahzadi and her husband Razak bought her for their three
>sons. Thousands of these girls are bought and sold in the villages
>all around us. We really don't see anything wrong with this
>practice."
>
>What Farida had to go through before she was employed by Shahzadi to
>'serve' her sons is a shocking tale. "I was raped by six men," she
>confessed sobbing, as the police took her away to Karnal to be
>lodged in a home for women criminals. She was sold three times. Each
>time, this frail girl of about 14 was sexually abused by her buyers.
>Mariam (name changed), another girl captured along with Farida,
>looks in a worse condition.
>
>She says she is 13. But her pale and drawn face, her tiny feet and
>hands belie that fact. She hardly speaks any Hindi, let alone
>Haryanvi, and it was only with great difficulty that she could
>convey to the police that she was pregnant. She says she was
>"married" to someone 20 years older than her because his first wife
>could not have any children. There is no record of any marriage ever
>having taken place. Her "husband", Khursheed, has been arrested for
>trafficking. His first wife Ameena (name changed) admits that money
>was paid to get Mariam.
>
>"Thoda bahut kharcha pani to dena hi padta hai (One has to pay some
>money to people who get the girls)," says Ameena, who is about 23.
>"I can't have children," she says. She's an invalid, who had to have
>several operations after losing one leg. "What's the use of having
>me as a wife? I told my husband to get a new girl. So he got this
>new girl. Now he has been arrested.Everyone here is buying girls.
>Why has my husband been arrested?" she asks with genuine
>bewilderment.
>
>The police officials who rescued the girls now seem reluctant to
>talk about the issue. "Why don't you do a survey of this entire
>belt? This is a backward area," says the rescue team leader,
>Sukhwinder Singh, sho at the Hatin police station. The state
>government won't even acknowledge this menace. Vina Igleton,
>secretary, department of social welfare, Haryana, refused comment.
>And the central government is only just waking up to the issue. "It
>is a horrifying trend. I am going to get the facts verified and take
>up the matter with the Assam chief minister," says Dr C.P. Thakur,
>minister for development of the northeastern region.
>
>The Department of Women and Child Development (DWCD) is about the
>only official entity that has initiated some action. Following the
>rescue of the four girls by the Hatin police, DWCD secretary R.V.V.
>Iyer wrote to Haryana chief secretary A.N. Mathur expressing concern
>and asking for details of any follow-up. "We are still to receive a
>reply although we plan to pursue the matter in all possible ways,"
>says a DWCD official.
>
>Unofficially, however, police officials admit that there are over
>5,000 girls, mainly from Assam, who have been sold all across Mewat.
>New girls arrive almost every month. Outlook traced two girls who
>were sold two years ago and have finally settled down in a village
>in Rewari. Their "husbands" refuse to admit that these girls were
>bought, and claim they married them.
>
>One of these girls is Praneeta Das, who now claims she is 18 and
>"married". She was brought to Kufurpur village from Assam. Her
>family back in Hajo village in Kamrup district has been trying to
>trace her ever since she disappeared.
>
>In a letter written to the Kamrup SP, Praneeta's parents Harkantu
>and Radhey Das have urged the police to search for their daughter.
>"A woman named Deepa Das took Praneeta to get her married. But for
>more than a year, we have not heard from her. We are worried and we
>want our daughter back," the letter says.
>
>Praneeta, however, clearly says she doesn't want to go back. "I have
>a child and I live with a family," she says. Her 'husband' Pappu
>Singh Ahir, however, has been accused of buying another girl, Kanika
>Das, from Assam's Keyajeni village, whose family too has reported
>her missing. Pappu Singh flatly denies any involvement in that one.
>"I don't know any Kanika. I never had anything to do with her," he
>maintains.
>
>Kanika's family hasn't given up. Her sister Babita has shot off
>letters to local NGOs, the police and even some MPs to help her
>trace her sister. But she seems to have just disappeared. "Kanika
>left the village with Deepa Das of Rewari. There is no sign of her
>after that," says Babita in a letter written to the Rewari SP.
>
>Deepa Das, an Assamese married and settled in Shabajpur village, is
>a name that finds mention in several such letters written by anxious
>parents from all across Assam. Local NGOs and activists fighting the
>trafficking of girls say she is one of the main conduits in the
>movement of girls from Assam to Haryana. According to Rishi Kant of
>Shakti Vahini, she lures girls to Haryana and sells them off to
>touts. Deepa, however, says that the girls come willingly to Haryana
>because people here are wealthier.
>
>"What can I do if the girls want to come here?" she asks. "I haven't
>forced anyone. They want a better life and they come here. Ask any
>girl if I have forced her." Deepa grudgingly admits that she knows
>Kanika Das and makes a startling revelation: "Kanika Das is dead.
>She died due to pregnancy-related problems."
>
>There is no record though. Her sister Babita, who travelled across
>Rewari to search for her, has no way of confirming whether she is
>indeed dead or alive.Activists of the Divyajoti Jan Kalyan Samiti,
>an Assam-based NGO that helped Babita in her search, believe Kanika
>has been sold again. They say that the process of buying and selling
>girls long after they have served their purpose goes on.
>
>"We started noticing this trend about two years back when a lot of
>worried parents came to us for help in tracing their daughters,"
>says Kuntala Sharma of Divyajoti Jan Kalyan Samiti. "Subsequently,
>we have travelled all over Haryana looking for missing girls from
>Assam. Some, like Praneeta, have been tracked down. They are trapped
>in obscure villages. We now hear that Kanika has died. That might be
>true because she was too young to have a child. But I suspect they
>have sold her off again."
>
>In the absence of any documentation, it is difficult to ascertain
>the actual number of girls from Assam who have been sold in Haryana.
>With both state governments unwilling to even recognise the problem,
>tackling it is next to impossible.
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