English
Translation of Madhu Kishwar’s
complaint in Hindi SHO Kotla Mubarakpur
31st December 2007
To,
The Station House Officer,
Kotla Mubarakpur police Station.
Sir,
Since my right hand is injured, I am unable to write
clearly.
Today, at 12.30 in the afternoon on 31st Decemeber 2008, I reached the market along with Manushi
employee Sheeshpal. He parked the car in front of the
park . I got
out of the car and began taking some photographs. Ajay Basoya,
Babli Basoya, Pinki Basoya, Kuku, Mahipal Basoya, Mohan Yadav along with some of their associates were sitting on chairs laid out in the park plaza. When I
started taking pictures, Mahipal’s mother repeatedly
stood in front of the camera. I felt that it would be a waste of time to get
into an argument with her since
she had attacked me on earlier occasions as well. Hence, I proceeded
towards my car.
As I turned back, Mahipal’s
mother caught me unaware, pulled my hair and hit me repeatedly. She then kicked
meand pushed me into the drain in front of the park.
As she was punching and kicking me Ajay Basoya, Pinki Basoya, Mahipal,
Babli and Kuku also began kicking and punching me.
The Basoyas all joined the chorus saying “ We will not let this randi go
out alive from here.”
When Sheeshpal saw me getting
beaten up, he rushed to rescue me, but Babli Basoya, Pinki Basoya,
Kukku, Mohan Yadav and Ajay Basoya
pounced on him and started hitting him with a danda.
As they gave him repeated blows I heard them say, “we
will not let this Harami go back alive today.” They
hit Sheeshpal on his legs, arms and back with a danda. When Babli punched Sheeshpal on his face, Kukku Basoya told him, “Don’t hit him on the face. That will
leave telltale marks of the beating. Beat him up in such a way that no bruises
are visible.”
Until the time that the police reached the scene,
the above-mentioned persons kept on beating up Sheeshpal.
Pinki Basoya caught hold of
Sheeshpal’s neck in a bid to strangle him and I saw Sheeshpal almost choked to death. The abovementioned
persons created a real riotous situation in an attempt to kill us both.
Mahipal’s mother and Ajay Basoya continued to beat me up near the drain, while the
others kept beating up Sheeshpal. Mahipal’s
mother pulled my hair and repeatedly banged my head against the sidewalk. With
the help of my arm and my shawl, I managed to save my head from concussions.
Then Mahipal called out to his men saying: “Snatch
away the camera of this randi
and thrash her up so much that she dares not enter this area again. Ajay was
saying: “Today we will tear up her clothes, strip her naked and beat her up in
the open. When Mohan Yadav came to snatch my camera,
I hid it in my lap and bent double over it to save it from being robbed. Ajay Basoya, Mahipal Basoya’s mother and Mohan Yadav punched and kicked me
further.
An unidentified person tried with great difficulty
to rescue me, but the all the others gathered there were paralyzed with fear
and watched stupefied how these goons created such a riotous situation and how
so many of them were thrashing an unarmed woman and an unarmed young man.
During this mayhem, Mahipal Basoya’s
mother and Ajay Basoya said “Let us shove them into her car and
set fire to the vehicle. They will not learn their lesson till their dead
bodies are taken out from this market.”
Mahipal Basoya’s
mother also said “ Before I kill her I will strip this
randi naked and get her gang raped in front of
everyone in the market.”
Even when the police reached the scene, they were
still hurling abuses at us, and were not letting us get out of the mob they had
collected. When the police took us to the police station, they along with their
entire gang, including their drivers and cleaners, reached the police station
and created a riotous situation there as well and kept threatening us openly.
With great difficulty, the police were able to take us out of the
On earlier occasions as well, the Basoya family has launched such vicious attacks on me.
While they were beating me Basoya brothers and their
mother kept saying: “Let us catch hold of Mehboob and
Ishwar and thrash them up as well.” Fortunately,
Ishwar and Mehboob had gone to the Electricity Board
office, otherwise their fate would have ended up with broken bones.
The Basoya family and
their associate Bhagat Singh are anti social and
criminal elements. They routinely gather mobs of lumpen
elements along with their numerous drivers and cleaners and beat up whomever
they feel like targeting.
These people literally shadow me around wherever I
go. One of their own associates—Roshan told me that
the Basoyas and Bhagat gang
have arranged for a supari of Rs 50,000 to get
me eliminated. My car has been pelted with huge boulders on previous occasions
with an attempt to kill me.
Today, the manner in which these 10-12 people
collected a mob to attack me and Sheeshpal so
murderously in broad daylight in order to create a riotous situation and
unleash a reign of terror, goes to show the extent to which these people can go
to take establish illegal possession of the Sewa
Nagar project.
I urge that strict action should be taken against these people. Despite Kalandra, they have no fear whatsoever of the police or of any other authority.
C 1/3, Sangam Estate
Under
Civil Lines
Delhi-110054