The brutal rape and murder of a 30-year-old woman in Mumbai's Sakinaka has shocked the conscience of all right-thinking people of India. Despite all the big talks of women empowerment in this country, we have elements within our society who take pride in humiliating, torturing and even murdering women. The governments of the day have continuously failed to protect the life and dignity of our women. The Nirbhaya case-like incident has triggered massive outrage all over Maharashtra with the National Commission for Women (NCW) taking suo moto cognizance of it on Saturday. Here're 10 important facts related to this case:
1. According to the victim's relatives, she was a resident of Sakinaka and had a love marriage 7-8 years ago but her husband left her and two children following which she started living with her mother.
2. She did not have any job or any other source of income due to which she became depressed. Six years ago, she left her mother and started living on the roadside.
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3. Her mother is disabled and works as a vegetable vendor. It is their only source of income. The situation worsened when Mumbai BMC raised the slums in the area, after which her mother had to pay Rs 2,000 rent per month to live in a slum.
4. The 30-year-old woman was brutally raped inside a parked tempo on the intervening night of Thursday and Friday and sustained serious injuries because of a rod put in her private parts.
5. The victim was rushed to the BMC-run Rajawadi Hospital where she underwent surgery but succumbed to death after battling for nearly 33 hours.
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6. Hours after the numbing incident, the Sakinaka Police had used tech-intel and caught the accused, Mohan Chauhan, 45, a jobless driver hailing from Uttar Pradesh's Jaunpur, as the incident sparked a massive political uproar. The accused was frequently seen consuming alcohol at a nearby bar from where the incident took place, the residents of the area said. They added that they also saw the victim frequently in the area.
7. Mumbai Police Commissioner Hemant Nagrale said that the accused has “confessed to his crime" and the weapon used by him to perpetrate the violence has been recovered.
8. He is currently in police custody till September 21 and being interrogated for the motives leading to the barbaric crime that occurred in the desolate Khairani Road locality of Sakinaka on the eve of the state's biggest public festival Ganeshotsav.
9. The Mumbai Police added charges under the SC/ST Atrocities Act against the accused in the case later.
10. Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has ordered the case to be transferred to a fast-track special court, and a Mumbai Police Special Investigation Team headed by Assistant Commissioner of Police Jyotsna Rasam has been formed to probe the matter within 30 days.
