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PATNA: The ordeal of a 22-year-old sexual harassment survivor from Ghazipur in Uttar Pradesh is but to return to an finish. At present staying underneath the safety of a non-profit in Patna, she shudders when listening to the identify of the previous ‘shelter house’ she was lodged in.
On the government-run Aftercare Residence for Females at Gaighat within the Bihar capital, the younger lady was allegedly drugged and compelled into immoral sexual acts for over 10 months. “This occurs to each younger lady and woman staying there,” she mentioned.
The lady made failed makes an attempt to take her personal life whereas being there. “Life had turn out to be hell for me. I didn’t need to stay anymore,” she recalled.
On Friday, the traumatised lady met the director of social welfare division Raj Kumar at his workplace to relate her ordeal. She was accompanied by functionaries of Mahila Vikas Manch, who got here to her rescue after being deserted by her husband.
The director listened to her story of horrors. Earlier, counsellors of the social welfare division had additionally sat with the girl. “We have now recorded the girl’s assertion,” one other senior officer mentioned, requesting anonymity. He, nevertheless, refused to make any touch upon the plea that the matter is pending earlier than the excessive courtroom. The excessive courtroom, which took a suo motu cognisance on Wednesday, has requested for an action-taken report from the social welfare division earlier than February 7.
The younger lady out of the blue turned a cynosure of all eye within the state capital after a video vent viral on social media on February 1 wherein she accused the superintendent of Gaighat-based Uttar Raksha Grih, Vandana Gupta, of forcing inmates into immoral acts. She had landed on the facility after being deserted by her husband Vivek Paswan on a operating prepare in April 2021.
The Ghazipur lady’s ordeal began on the age of 18. She was crushed up by her step mom at house in Ghazipur. Fed up with day-to-day torture she left house and boarded a prepare for New Delhi. “I used to be sexually assaulted in lieu of meals supplied to me in New Delhi,” she referred to as.
After staying in an orphanage for a while, she landed in Rescue Basis at Kanjiwada the place she spent a few years and learnt abilities for her livelihood. She stepped out about three years in the past. As she was about to start out a brand new life she met with an accident close to Badarpur border close to Faridabad and needed to be admitted to a hospital the place she met Vivek Paswan who she later married.
When she got here to her in-laws home in Darbhanga, she gave start to a boy however was quickly separated from her youngster. Her husband deserted her within the operating prepare on option to Delhi from Darbhanga in April 2021 and disappeared from the place she reached ‘Uttar Raksha Grih’.
