Arun Sharma
Tribune News Service
Panchkula, March 15
A rape victim, found near the Mansa Devi temple today morning, was admitted to the Civil Hospital in Sector 6. Volunteers of Jeevan Mukt Nishulk Vidyalaya, Panchkula, spotted the woman and took her to the hospital. It was then discovered that she is a patient there and has been admitted to the hospital for more than five months.
A rape victim, found near the Mansa Devi temple today morning, was admitted to the Civil Hospital in Sector 6. Volunteers of Jeevan Mukt Nishulk Vidyalaya, Panchkula, spotted the woman and took her to the hospital. It was then discovered that she is a patient there and has been admitted to the hospital for more than five months.
According to Mansa Ram Ahuja, president of the NGO,
the woman with plaster on her leg, spent the night in the open and was
inconsolable when some women approached her offering help.
The victim was earlier found raped near Ramgarh, in a state of shock
with multiple injures and a fractured leg on last October 24. After
that, the victim was given psychiatric treatment as well, but with very
negligible recovery, as she was not able to talk much. She could not be
identified by the police as she did not reveal much about herself.
However, when a reporter gave her a pen and paper to write her name, she
wrote her name as Ranu Bala Bosumotary from Borpata in Assam.
She wrote Sri Laskman Bosumatary as her father.
Hospital authorities said the local civil hospital was an open
hospital and cases with psychiatry complication should be treated at
psychiatry hospitals where trained medical staff are available to
handle them.
The victim is so depressed that she has already damaged the plaster
on the leg four times, informed the authorities. It is not advisable
to keep a patient with such symptoms in the hospital as it could be
detrimental not only to her safety but for other patients as well,
added the authorities.
The woman is still under shock and does not speak to any one even
after five months of the incident. She does not interact for long
with other patients admitted in the same ward, added the staff.
However, she whispered a few words which others found difficult to
understand, said the paramedics at the hospital.
Both the deputy commissioner and the superintendent of police,
Panchkula, were urged to take remedial steps in this direction,
but nothing was done, rued the authorities.
| Happy End To Sad
Tale Assamese girl reunited with kin . Wednesday, May 23, 2007, Chandigarh, India Renu with her father. — Photo by Malkiat Singh |
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Panchkula, May 22
The hapless girl found by the police in semi-nude condition on the Ramgarh-Barwala highway in October last year, came out of the shadows of anonymity today.
The hapless girl found by the police in semi-nude condition on the Ramgarh-Barwala highway in October last year, came out of the shadows of anonymity today.
For the first time since she landed in the city eight months back, Renu
managed a fragile smile from the hospital bed. Her family arrived all the
way from Assam
to get back the daughter they had presumed dead after months of futile
search.
Reunited with his daughter due to the efforts of the Assamese Welfare
Association, 65-year-old Lakshan, a small-time farmer in Barpeta of Assam,
said: “She was studying in Class XII in the village school.That was
more than a year back. One day, her friends returned from school while
she was left behind. Ever since that day, we heard nothing about her. We
searched up to Guwahati and finally gave up. We presumed she had died
and mourned her death.”
It was about a week back that his elder son, a schoolteacher, received
a call from the association, saying Renu was alive and recuperating in
the General Hospital, Sector 6.
“I have six daughters and five sons. She was the youngest and the
only one not married child. She used to take care of me after my
wife passed away six years back. When news of her being alive came
in, it sounded unreal. I had never heard of Haryana.
I don’t know what she went through since the time she went
missing, but I am happy to have her back and can’t wait to take
her home.”
Accompanied by his 30-year-old son, the father and son tried to
make conversation with Renu, but she only smiled back, saying
little. “ I think she is under shock. She has become unstable.
She says she was repeatedly exploited,” her brother said.
A member of the association, Bhabit Deka, explained: “An
Assamese boy working in the Industrial Area spotted Renu at the
hospital and told us about her. We came to meet her and found
that she spoke Boro language and not Assamese. We identified a
woman who understood the language and found out her home
district and village. We got in touch with the Boro Association
in Delhi
and they, in turn, contacted the local Boro chapter in Assam.
The exercise took a month before we zeroed in on the family.”
“It is satisfying to know that we have reached a happy end
to a sad tale. We could not have asked for more,” the
members said.