Sirf Husbands ko nichoda jaa raha hai. State machinary is all for the gender bias, be it administrative, legislative, executive, judiciary etc.
They cry for women rights........practically all in the name of operessed ones, but METRO-WIVES getting all the fruits to FULFIL THEIR GREED. If Govt is so caring about destitute ladies, then why this is happening un-atteneded after 65 yrs of Independence. Its all hypocricy
https://www.tribuneindia.com/2012/20121216/haryana.htm#1
reads as :
Living hell: Women bought, sold in Mewat
Sumedha Sharma
Tribune News Service
Gurgaon, December 15
Sanjida had excitedly looked forward to getting clicked in front of the ‘Lal Qila’ when she set out on a Delhi tour from Assam with her aunt in 2008, but fate had something else in store for her.
Then 16, she was sold to a man in Delhi who further sold her to man from Mewat and she became a molki (the bought one).
Unaware of the customs of this Meo heartland, the young Assamese lass could never come to terms with the physical and s*xual assault even as she bore two children.
As fate would have it, volunteers of ‘Empower People’, an NGO, found her and got her settled in Firozepur.
“Out to see Delhi, I ended up experiencing the worst form of crime against women. I lost my name and identity and was fed just to obey my masters. But in my heart, I always wanted to be Sanjida rather than a molki, an abuse which was my name for years,” she says.
This is the story of many girls who live in one of the many communes of the NGO.
Hamidan was abducted from Asam in 1995 at the age of 12. She was brought to Mewat and was sold 10 times as molki, her last buyer being a 68 year-old man with eight children. She had four of her own. She was rescued by the NGO after a local panchayat found her lying in a critical condition.
She had lost her voice but her eyes told the horror she had suffered.
Tabassum of Kolkata was sold to a man in Nuh of Mewat in 2008. Brutality was in store for her. Running on the street and wailing with pain, she lost her first child as soon as it was delivered as it died after falling on the street. She soon lost her memory and the birth of her second child was meaningless to her.
Even as hundreds of girls continue to be sold in the Mewat region and converted to molkis, the custom remains unchallenged.
Unfortunately, this worst form of trafficking has failed to be designated as crime. The local panchayats blame the practice on a skewed s*x ratio, limited land resources and the aim of getting easy breeders who, at times, serve all men in the family.
The girls are generally first bought between the ages of 12 and 21 years, ‘the prime of reproductive age’, and are resold till age of 32. A majority of them are Muslims are from Bengal, closely followed by Bihar and Assam.
“A molki is generally a discarded member of the family who though ‘married’ to her buyer has no legal rights as she is never considered a wife. While this marriage has no legitimacy, it is a great aid for traffickers who avoid being accused of prostitution or trafficking. Mewat has turned into a transit point for the largest market for girls,” says Shafiq R Khan, director, Empower People, an NGO fighting against bride-trafficking in the state.
While local panchayats and even the police allegedly turn a blind eye to this custom, communes like ‘Paro’ run by Empower People, are full of such sad tales.
“I am from Bengal and never could guess that my aunt would sell me off. I was a teen then. I was sold four times to different men and every purchase brought new horrors in my life. I was brought to the NGO and offered marriage with Akhtar. I took the chance and it worked. It is tough to be a woman in the world but for molki there is no world,” says 29-year-old Mariyam as she cuddles the youngest of her three children.
While the picture is grim, a silver lining is the fact that several men, primarily widowers, opt to marry these rescued molkis and even support their children.
“The police has always taken action when a complaint or tip-off is received in the matter,” said Sukhbir Singh, superintendent of police, Mewat, on the issue.
