The brutal rape of 8-year-old girl in Mandsaur earlier this week has again flashed a brutal society in front of us and gives a harsh reminder of the 8-year-old raped in Kathua, Jammu and Kashmir in January 2018.
Police said Irfan Khan, a labourer in a local market allegedly kidnapped the girl while she was waiting for her father outside her school on Tuesday. He then took her to a secluded place and raped her before slitting her throat.
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Doctors at the MY Hospital in Indore, where she is currently being treated, found that an object – possibly a rod or a wooden stick – had been inserted into her in a manner brutal enough to draw out her entrails. It took two surgeries extending over three hours to undo the damage, they said. The details of this chilling details of this rape incident remind us of the 2012 Delhi gangrape case, where a student was gang-raped by six people on a moving bus.
Paediatric surgeon Dr Brijesh Lahoti said the girl in Mandsaur was still in a critical condition, despite recovering slowly. “She is too traumatised even to talk,” another doctor said.
Based on the medical examination and of the girl and the doctors’ statements the MP police has booked Khan under Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses Act (POCSO). Mandsaur superintendent of police Manoj Singh said that the accused was arrested within 24 hours with the help of CCTV footage which showed him taking the girl after the school.
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Mandsaur residents called for a Bandh on Thursday to protest against this crime, local Anjuman Islam head Yunus Sheikh declared that Khan would not be accorded any burial space after his death. Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said on Friday that he will assure death penalty for the accused.
Meanwhile, Congress President, Rahul Gandhi on Saturday came out in support of the minor girl, expressing his anger on the microblogging site Twitter, he tweeted- ”As a nation, we must come together to protect our children and bring the attackers to speedy justice,” the Congress president tweeted.
In Mandsaur, MP, an 8-year-old girl was kidnapped and gang raped, and is battling for her life. The brutality this young child was subjected to sickens me. As a nation, we must come together to protect our children and bring the attackers to speedy justice.
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) June 30, 2018
Rahul’s Congress colleague Jyotiraditya Scindia too echoed similar sentiments and raised questions over investigations into the horrific case. Scindia even demanded a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
“It took a lot of time to lodge an FIR in the rape case of an 8-year-old girl in Mandsaur. Even today the investigation is not going in the right direction. We demand a CBI inquiry in the case. Women in my state don’t feel safe,” Scindia told reporters.
प्रदेश में महिलाओं पर बढ़ते अत्याचार और हाल ही में मंदसौर में मासूम “गुड़िया” के साथ हुए जघन्य दुष्कर्म के बाद उसके न्याय के लिए कल 30 जून को इंदौर में निकलने वाले केंडिल मार्च में सम्मलित होऊंगा। pic.twitter.com/mABV5jNTUE
— Jyotiraditya Scindia (@JM_Scindia) June 29, 2018