Daughter’s in-laws chop mother’ nose, mother asks for justice

NPnews24Online RAJASTHAN:   An uncanny protest has come in light after a woman whose nose was supposedly was chopped off by her daughter’s in-laws in Barmer, Rajasthan on 28^th December in 2018, is on a dharna against the police who have not taken any action against it.

According to the occurrence, the mother got her daughter married off four years ago to a man residing in Lukhu village. But after few months of the marriage, due to some disputes with the in-laws, she left her in-laws house and started living with the mother. Around three months ago, the mother got her daughter married to a man residing in Bachdau village. Annoyed by this, her previous in-laws attacked her family on 28^th December and chopped off her nose with a sharp-edged weapon and also beat up her husband with sticks.

After which, the mother lodged a case with the Dhorimanna police two weeks ago, but the police are not taking action in the matter.

After getting the information, police reached the spot and the injured were rushed to a primary health centre, from where after first aid the woman was referred to a government hospital in Barmer and later moved to Jodhpur. On the basis of her statement, police lodged a case against two accused under sections 307 and 458 of the IPC.

After no action being taken, on 16^th January, the woman, along with her family members, sat on a dharna outside the collectorate in Barmer. In her memorandum to the district administration and police officials, the woman alleged that the accused, who are member of a caste panchayat, have threatened her family members that they would teach them such a lesson that they would not be in a position to face the society.

Demanding security to her family, the woman pleaded for the arrest of the accused. The woman warned that if no action would be taken in the matter soon, she will go on a hunger strike.

Barmer superintendent of police Rashi Dorga Dudi said that the police have taken the case “very seriously”. She said that after registering the case the police are continuously making efforts to arrest the accused, who are at large. Dudi said that she also met the victim and her family members and assured them about the action. The SP claimed that after the victims had agreed to withdraw their protest after she spoke to them. However, till the last report came in, the woman and her family members were sitting on the dharna.

It was the second such incident in Barmer in a year. In July, a jilted lover had allegedly chopped off a woman’s nose and killed her husband with a sharp-edged weapon. The woman was living with the accused for past two months but decided to return to her husband later her in-laws chopped the mother’s nose.