Sitting amid the blackened remains of his home, 32-year-old Nikesh Gawali carefully broke open a half-melted plastic box with a screwdriver. His hands shook slightly, not out of fear, but out of hope. “I’m trying to find my daughter Aarti’s gold earrings,” he said quietly, still focused on the box. “She’s just five. I got them made recently after months of labour work.” The plastic box, warped and blackened by heat, was one of the few things left from his two-room house on the outskirts of Dhamangaon village . All around him lay ash, broken tin sheets and charred wooden beams. The walls had cracked under the heat and the front room’s tin roof had caved in completely. What remained was a blackened debris all around - almost nothing to suggest a home once stood there. Nikesh earns his living as an agricultural labourer, like many in the village. Work is uncertain and depends on the season. Those earrings weren’t just jewellery - they were a small dream, a reward for his hard work,...
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Shiv Sena’s Dr Neelam Gorhe, BJP’s Pankaja Munde, NCP’s Vidya Chavan, Congress’s Yashomati Thakur and Alka Desai, and others staged protest on the stair case. Atrocities against women are raising in the country. On Monday, a 23-year-old girl was gangraped in a moving bus in New Delhi. A 10-year old girl was sexually exploited in Nagpur, the second capital of Maharashtra. The lack of stringent laws is being seen as main hindrance in acting as deterrent for the culprits and hence there are not let-up in actions against women.
NCP’s Women Wing has also come on front and submitted a memorandum to all MLAs at Vidhan Bhavan on Tuesday. The legislators gathered at staircase with placards and shouted slogans for stern action against every accused in the rape case. They also demanded for immediate appointment of Chairman of State Women’s Commission that is lying vacant since long.
Spokesperson of Shiv Sena Dr Neelam Gorhe said that government should ensure safety of women in state as crime against women is increasing everyday. The accused have no fear about law as they are getting bail after committing heinous crimes like rape. All women MLAs will raise the issue in both houses of State Legislatures to give justice to every woman of the state, she added. Vidya Chavan said that non-bailable offence should be registered against the accused persons. Tougher punishment are needed so that the culprit understand what means to outrage the modesty of woman and similarly a message goes to society that crime against women does not pay off.
The memorandum submitted to Chief minister demanded quick registration of first investigation report (FIR); immediate seizure accused clothes and other incriminating material so that medical report, that plays an important role during trail can be clear cut; expert doctors should be appointed in state hospitals; special section be incorporated in Indian Penal Code (IPC) on the lines of one existing in Uganda and UK for trying accused persons involved in acid attack. They insisted for a ban on telecast of obscene movies and videos on television. Censor Board should rethink over their certificate issuing system, the legislators unanimously demanded.
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