Orissa State women’s Commission Chief demanded arrest of college girl’s murderer and rapist

Orissa State women’s Commission Chief demanded arrest of college girl’s murderer and rapist 4/11/2011

Orissa News : - Sambalpur

An intermediate student ( 10+2) of jharsuguda , which is 50km away from sambalpur , went missing on Nov 24th after coming from college from her residence. On Monday police recovered the dead body of the girl near Ghandhi Chowk on the Jhasuguda to Brajrajnagar road. According to circumstantial evidence it is under suspection that she had been raped before being killed.

Orissa State Women Commission Chairperson Jyoti Panigrahi , while making a visit to Jharsuguda met the SP , Dayal Gangwar and the Principal of Women’s College to inspect into the matter urgently. She demanded that the rapist and murderer must be arrested to the immediate effect. “ It is an outrageous and heinous act and the criminals should not be let free. I have asked the SP to look into the details of the matter and accused must be put behind the bars as soon as possible,” She told the media persons in Jharsuguda.

She further suggested the police must take special care against eve teasing, basically near educational institutions. The murdered student had to travel 25 km everyday to reach the college because she could not avail a seat in the college hostel.

DID YOU feel ashamed? Ashamed that when you were 13 years old, a passer by grabbed and pinched you? Ashamed that men passed ‘lewd’ remarks when you walked past? Or brushed against you? Ashamed when drivers adjusted their rear view mirrors to stare at your chest? Ashamed that it happened to you because you thought you walked, talked and dressed in a manner that was wrong?

Rape, eve teasing, molestation are encountered almost every day. The mark that these everyday instances leave on our psyche is immeasurable, eventually making an individual insensitive to such incidents and devastating one’s self image. The worst of it is by the society, which ironically blames the victim, in most cases the woman. By labeling them to be indecent, provocative and having an unfavorable attitude. ‘Freedom’- the word seems neatly imprinted on the papers, where stalwarts of our society use and misuse it to portray their deceptive liberal attitude. Our law grandly states: “ IPC Section 354 - whoever assaults or uses criminal force to any woman intending to outrage or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby outrage her modesty, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine or both.”

SANGRAM KESARI PANDA,
CORRESPONDENT,
( THROUGH)
SIDDHARTHA SHANKAR MISHRA,
BUREAU CHIEF,
THESEDAYS, TASVER E HIND,
ORISSA, SAMBALPUR