Immediate Justice to the Nirbhaya of Najafgarh demand people of Uttarakhand in Delhi
The inhabitants of Uttarakhand living in Delhi, various social organisations active in national capital are furious, angered and annoyed over the delay in justice to the Nirbhaya of Najafgarh hailing from Garhwal, Uttarakhand, who was obnoxiously gang raped and brutally killed by three criminals in Haryana after being inflicted with several deep wounds and an unexplainable torture in 2011, a year before the Vasant Vihar running bus gangrape and subsequent diabolical murder of Damini of Vasant Vihar whose rapists and killers have been already hanged.
The most anguished and traumatic parents have been running from pillar to post since then and even after getting death sentence by the Dwarka session court and upheld by high Court, the case is now in the honourable apex court of India.
After the brutal gang rape n subsequent murder of Nirbhaya of Nazafgarh in 2011 who was kidnapped one evening by three local bad characters from Qutub Vihar locality, Najafgarh and gangraped in a park in Haryana, the FIR was registered after tremendous efforts with local police not taking any interest, initially.
After the people of the area got mobilised and demonstrated in front of the local police station did the police lodged an FIR.
The culprits were moving freely then without any inkling of fear say sources.
However, in 2016 an NGO activist Anita Negi Gupta, who had shockingly succumbed to dreaded pandemic last year, had on the deceased father’s request and her own initiative organised a Dharna at Jantar Mantar in 2016 that continued for several days.
The first big story appeared in a Delhi tabloid paper on the front page further inviting the media attention. The english paper was edited by veteran journalist Bharat Bhushan
Gradually, several activists of of social organisations of Uttarakhand active in Delhi like Uttarakhand Journalists Forum, Uttarakhand Ekta Manch etc started organising candle marches and peaceful protests at Jantar Mantar inviting the attention of the media, resulting in legendary singer and poet of Uttarakhand Narendra Singh Negi, Bhagat Singh Koshiyari, then MP, Vinod Bacheti, Sunil Negi, sr. journalist n social activist, etc coming to Jantar Mantar demanding death to the culprits and, adequate financial compensation to the aggrieved family, regularly.
The contribution of social activist Anita Negi Gupta cannot be forgotten to bring this, otherwise dead issue to the forefront who thereafter along with several women of Nazafgarh, Qutub Vihar and activists of various other areas of Delhi also organised several days’ dharna and peaceful protests outside Dwarka court and even courted arrests demanding capital punishment to the culprits.
Finally after several days of hearing, the culprits were sentenced to death. They hardly had any remorse while being taken to the court for hearing.
After languishing in jail they approached the high court with a review petition which was also turned downed. The matter currently lies in the supreme court with the case going on n on, being dragged to the annoyance of the aggrieved parents.
The poor family lives in Qutub Vihar, Najafgarh losing her elder daughter in 2011 who was the only source of income with father Kunwar Singh Negi getting a meagre salary working as a daily wager.
What is surprising in this case is, the culprits of Nirbhaya of Vasant Vihar who was also brutally killed after gangrape in a running bus have been hanged but the culprits of Nirbhaya of Nazafgarh are still languishing in jail and the case lingering in the apex court of India.
A meeting of Uttarakhand Ekta Manch was held at Garhwal Bhawan demanding expeditious justice to the aggrieved parents running from pillar to posts since 2011. Meanwhile, the president of Uttarakhand Journalists Forum demanded that no less than capital punishment to the obnoxious rapists and horrendous murderers of our sister n daughter, the Nirbhaya of Najafgarh who unfortunately met her gruesome end a year before the tragedy of the Damini of Vasant Vihar in 2011 will suffice. Our humble appeal to honourable Apex Court for the harshest of the punishment to the hardened criminals as Justice Delayed amounts to Justice Denied. The anguished and traumatic parents have been running from pillar to post for the last 11 years, but of no avail, unfortunately.
By AASTHA NEGI
