India: Outrage after Muslim woman ‘burnt alive by molester’

Many political leaders and ladies’s rights activists in India have come collectively to demand justice for a Muslim woman, who was allegedly burned to dying by a Hindu man and his pals in Vaishali district within the japanese province of Bihar.

Gulnaz Khatoon, 20, was burned after the accused poured kerosene over her in Rasoolpur village on October 30. She succumbed to her burns on Sunday.

The woman’s household alleges the police delayed in taking motion in opposition to the accused had been recognized as Satish Kumar Rai, Chandan, and Vinod Rai.

Khatoon was delivered to the native hospital with 75 % burn accidents. She was later moved to Patna Medical School Hospital, the most important hospital within the province, the place she died.

She was engaged to a different man and the wedding ceremony was scheduled to be held in 4 months, her household stated.

Satish Kumar Rai had been forcing Gulnaz to marry him, the sufferer’s household stated, including that the woman refused to enter into an interfaith marriage with Rai. Enraged at her refusal, Rai and his pals killed the woman, they stated.

20-year-old Gulnaz was burnt alive as a result of she resisted harassment. The information didn’t cowl it, as a result of her faith, and that of her murderers, didn’t match the narrative being fed to us. As a substitute, we criminalise inter-faith marriages. #JusticeForGulnaz – justice, if there may be any.

— Hiba Bég (@HibaBeg) November 18, 2020

Media stories stated Gulnaz was burned when she went out to discard family garbage.

Video assertion of the sufferer

In accordance with the video assertion of the sufferer earlier than her dying, she was caught by three males, all residents of Rasoolpur village and so they began molesting her.

When she resisted and threatened to inform her mom about their misconduct, the indignant males poured kerosene on her.

The assertion names Rai particularly, who poured the kerosene and set her on fireplace.

Vaishali District Superintendent of Police (SP) Gaurav Mangla stated the accused individuals had been on the run and three police groups have been fashioned to arrest them.

“Investigations within the case had been in progress and the accused folks could be arrested very quickly,” stated Mangla.

The chief of the native police station has been suspended for negligence within the case.

Chatting with Anadolu Company, Khatoon’s youthful sister Gulshan Parveen stated the killers escaped from the scene as quickly as villagers gathered after listening to her screams.

Muslim woman in Bihar in #India was burnt alive and thrown right into a properly by proper wing Hindu extremists

Victims household dmnding justice however nobody listening to them even after 2wks
India is changing into positively unsafe for spiritual minorities#JusticeForGulnaz#indiadeservesblacklist pic.twitter.com/Mq1xBjC0hm

— RaNa BilaL (@AB18PK) November 17, 2020

“The accused individuals had been stalking and sexually harassing my sister for the final three-four months and pressurising her to marry Satish Rai. They killed her as a result of she refused,” she stated.

Household staged an indication

The sufferer’s father, Mukhtar, died in 2017. The household of 5 sisters and 4 brothers survived on the wages of mom Shaimuna Khatoon and brother Istkar Ahmed. They work within the state capital Patna the place the mom stitches and son sells garments.

The sufferer’s household had complained to the mother and father of the accused in regards to the harassment. However they allegedly did nothing.

“After her marriage was mounted, Satish Rai began harassing her much more and pressurized her to marry him. Nevertheless, she informed him that she can not marry him. Enraged over her refusal, he threatened to kill her,” stated the sufferer’s brother Istkar.

A number of movies of Khatoon have gone viral, the place she is pinpointing the accused and narrating the incident intimately.

There was additionally an enchantment on Fb looking for assist to deal with her.

After Khatoon’s dying on Sunday, her household staged an indication at a metropolis sq. to name for punishment.

“We wish Justice. It has been 17 days however there has hardly been any progress. We complained but it surely was not thought of. We’re powerless, we’ve got nobody to assist us,” Shaimuna Khatoon, mom of the sufferer, informed Anadolu Company.

Many ladies’s rights organisations have demanded quick arrest of the accused and compensation of two million rupees ($27,000) and a authorities job to the sufferer’s household, apart from conducting a good investigation and trial in a quick observe courtroom.

#JusticeForGulnaz

#JusticeForGulnaz trended on Twitter on Monday as folks expressed anguish on the delay within the registering of the case in opposition to the perpetrators.

Taking to Twitter, chief of India’s essential opposition Congress get together Rahul Gandhi attacked the federal government and attributed it to misrule and a false notion of excellent governance.

Sharing the newspaper report, Gandhi wrote: “Whose crime is extra harmful. Those that carried out this inhuman act? Or those that hid it for electoral beneficial properties to put the inspiration of his false good governance on this misrule?”

Asaduddin Owaisi, a outstanding Muslim chief, known as for motion in opposition to the accused.

“Unbelievable cruelty. Prayers for sufferer & her household. These males ‘punished’ her for resisting molestation. It’s been 15 DAYS & there’s nonetheless no motion. Males like Satish are emboldened by the truth that there’s by no means any motion. @NitishKumar the place’s your “robust on crime” coverage now?” he tweeted, tagging the state Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.

Kumar took over as chief minister this week for the fourth consecutive time period after his Janata Dal United get together gained the regional elections in alliance with the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP).