In a shocking case, a mother disowned her married daughter who is a rape victim. The mother of the victim said in the special fast-track court of Nivedita Anil Sharma that she was unable to take her daughter back home as she feared for her own life from her daughter. The court then asked Nirmal Chayya, a women welfare institution of Delhi Government to provide treatment and shelter to the rape victim after her mother refused to take her home on the pretext of security reasons.
The mother daughter relations turned grim on an earlier day of the trial when the mother was called for the hearing. She, however, didn’t turn up for the case claiming that she was busy in some religious ceremony at her home. Though she attended the hearing the next day. The ‘alleged victim’ has also submitted that her mother is angry with her due to which she is not coming to take her from Nirmal Chaaya.
Currently housed at Nirmal Chayya at Hari Nagar, the girl during the trial of her case against the accused said that she does not want to stay at Nirmal Chayya as the place is like a jail and the treatment is inhuman. She told the court that she has been kept with other inmates who have some mental problems.
The girl is also undergoing a treatment of schizophrenia by the Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences (IHBAS). The Court after some preliminary inquiries stated that the victim appears to be well-oriented and is capable of giving rational answers to questions. “She stands the sanctity of oath,” said the court.
The woman was allegedly raped on April 15 by two men in a DDA community hall on the pretext of getting her husband released, who was in judicial custody. Both the accused have also been given bail on furnishing bail bond in the sum of Rs25,000 each with one surety of the like amount.
According to the victim, she has done her graduation in humanities and was working with a call center before the incident took place.
Her mother however, made contradictory statements saying that she is not aware of any information about her daughter’s marriage. The evidence of the prosecution witnesses has been recorded and the next date for hearing the trial is slated to be on 26th of September.