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CI-ll.,.PTJ;;R VI

CASE STUDIES

Sex delinquency isLpfOduct of several factors.

Various forces play their part in making a person commit

a sex crime. Sex delinquents are a diverse loto There

are some who are victims of circumstances. There are

others who are constantly involved in sex offences because

ot their being emotionally sick. There are some whose

sexual activity is more thim t.he normal and who satisfy

their sex urge in 2 way that amounts to breach of the laws.

Such people find themselves unable to control their impulses.

In some case we notice that the motivating factor is an '

effort to compensate for a deficiency through dramatic and r:::Ji-:~:'

violent p=of of one's potency. Lack of ··virility rather than

a surplus of it makes such people abnormally obsessed with

sex. Thus in order to study the causes, consequences and

cures of sex of-i'ences -.,.,e have to understand the various

social and personal factors, the cumulative influences of

1-rhich makes a person what he or she is. For this, a number

o-: representiltive case histori<cs of different categories of

crime have been chosen. As this is mainly a qualitative

study, illustrative case histories ot the persons involved

hG.·Je been pn,sented in order to comnunicat:e the in<:ormation

et, ._,tively and to explain the findings of the study.

(A) PROSTITUTION

CA.SE STUDY N0.1

'P' is a young girl of about tvrenty three years. She

is wheuti.sh in complexion, medium in height and thin in built•

She is very well behaved and is always neatly and cleanly

drec;sed. She is illiterate. She has been practising prosti-

tution in the Dal Gali of Raipur city for the last seven years.

Here she sits along other pan-chewing, theatrically made-up

women in tche foul smelling passage. She is Stnami by caste

and hales from a farmer's family of village Borwa of district

Du::-g. Be~ mother had married an outsider by name 'R.L' at

Nugpur. She is the product of this union. Her father forsoqk

hc;r mo·ther after a few years of marriage and went away to U .P. ,

In fact, she has never seen her father. later hel'mother

married one 'J.S' with whom she continues to live. In her

looks, she gives an impression of coming from a non-Chhatisgarhi

family. Slrprisingly she uses proverbs and common sayings in

her speech. While speaking she often uses English words like

'mentality',. 'habit', 'character', etc. This is surprising

coming as it does from a prosti·tute. It is learnt that she

being young in age and good in looks, is visited by people of

some good families. A number of representative of medical

comoanies and other firms who are highly paid have been seen.

As staced, she belongs to a farmer's family. She has.

two sisters o.nd one brother. The two sis',»rs are married.-•

The brother is small an~ is being supported by her. He learns

a$ motor mechanic's job in a local Garage. Every late night

he comes to her place and sleeps in her house. He keeps away.

during the day. She is being looked after by an old Satnami

turned Muslim woman who was herself a p=stitute about twenty

years ago but later married and has now children also.

As a young girl in the village, 'P' had an affair with

'K' of the same village. She was deeply infatuated with him.

But he went a>vay from the village and joined the Army. Her

mother then got her married in the village to a person who in

his appearance and manners vas no comparison to her lover.

Before joining the profession she was married to one

'H.S' 1flho was a farmer. She started having hatred for her

husband since on the very first night her husband ordered her

harshly to undress and abruptly indulged in sexual union with

hrr v:ithout caring about her feelings. She was a sensitive

l·nman and nseded affection and not simply mechanical sex whict

'lilS never satisfying. She stayed with him for two years.

J.Ir:Cng this period, remembrance of her lover also troubled

her. For these two years she had quite an unhappy life as

this 'l~.s· >-:ould not also give her sufficient food and clothes.

He would often beat her. He >vas very nuch given to drinking

and gambling. Fed up with all this, she gave up her house­

hold ,nd one day c«me to Dal Gali of her own accord. No one

asked her to come here. She knew that there was a place like

D'l Gali in Raipur where young women could sell flesh and

make a good living.

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She is now happy as she earns about two hundred to

three hundred rupees every month. Every day two to four

persons visit her. Each person pays trom Rupees three to

Rupees five as per bargain. Each man is with her for about

ten minutes. If any one insists for a longer time without ·

extra payment, he is turned out. She is visited by all

sorts of people -local, outsiders, old and young, Hindus

and Muslims. Some times foreigners from Bhilai also visit

her and they pay a little extra. Fifty per cent of the

people who visit her are drunkards. Some times they do

misbehave but there are very fe<v cases of 1marpit 1 or man-

handling by them. SUrely the Sikh truck-drivers are not

v:elcome as they misbehave and harass a lot. Some of the

cus,:.omers are given to perversions and they insist on the

fulfilment. of tre se perversions but she does not accede to

tchem. She particularly mentions two medical firm represen­

tatives who are highly educuted and al1r1ays smartly dressed.; i

They bring tape-recorders to record the lewd talk of a

sex session and insist on her to relate her sex experiences

with different types ot people. One of these brought a

camera and took her photographs in nude in different poses

and in two of these, he also posed with her in nude. For

such acts, she charges more.

She has contacted veneral disease and spends about

tHenty to thirty rupees on her medical treatment every month.

She practises profession even in the monthly menstruation days

b0cause she cannot afford to los" the earnings on these days.

She has not yet borne a child but has had one abortion.

She hardly saves any thing. Whatever she earns she

spends. She wants to save something for her old age. Out

of the earnings she would like to purchase some land to live

on in her old age or she might work as a keeper of young girls

and thus support herself.

She believes in God but does not pray. She has no

hobbies. She some times goes to pictures. Mostly she keeps

at home. She does not drink liquor or smoke. Like all

Ch11atisgarhis, rice is her staple food. She takes bath daily.

She has no connections with he'r family and does not

visit her tamily members. At the moment, she does not want

to leave the profession anu she is happy. She is able to eat

and Hear vihat she likes. She is independent of the control

ot her husband. So at the moment she .vould not like to leave

the profession or do any job. In her old age ho•iever she might

consider such a proposal if it is then forthcoming. But even

then it is doubtful if she would accept it because the society

would always look down at her with a feeling of hatred. If a

daughter is born to her, she would get her married rather

than join this profession which she does believe is an evil one.'

Analysing the case, it can be concluded that 'P' came •

in 1:o the profession as a matter ot necessity to make a living.

In view of her tamily back ground in which the mother had

married an outsider, who '"hen forsook her, she married a·;ain

there was in 'P's mind no sanctity of the marriage bond.

And·so when she found difficult to live with her husband,

she gave him up und became a prostitute. Possibly by giving

up her husband she was trying to take revenge on mankind

since her tather after having brought her in the world had

given up her mother kc:~.d later not even shown his face.

Having joined the profession, there is now no going

bC!ck for her in the society and as per her present lot she

has learned to be happy in her circumstances. Legally

prostitution by itself is not an offence. It may be an

anti-social occupation at which the society does not look

vlith a good eye. She is in this evil trade because of her

circumstances. She doe not commit any legal offence because

she does not live on the earnings of others. There are no

touts in her profession. Thece is no question of soliciting

in a public place because she is practising her prof~sion

in a house which has been kept apart for this purpose. There

are about hundred prostitutes in her locality - a narrow,

·J.irty, dingy and stinking lane by the side of Babulal Talkies.

Anybody going through this lane can see the prostitutes, young

and old, dark and fair complexioned, charming and repulsive,

:=itting on the thresholc, of rooms rented for a monthly rent

of rupees fifty to eighty liesurely looking at the passers by

in the hope that they might get a customer.

CASE STUDY NO.2

'G' is a t:all dnd fair -::omplrcxioned woman.

nnatly drr-ssed and takes special care of her looks.

She is al1.;ays

She often

does her hair in 1 Sadhana 1 style. She is uneducated. She,

is aged about thirty 'five years and has been practising

prosti'tution since last ten to twelve years. She has three

children - two daughtc~rs and one son aged eight, five and

two respec'l:ively. A brother aged about fifteen also stays

Hith her. He does odd jobs and is mostly looked after by her.

She has also an old maid-servant to look after her children.

She livc"s in a two-1.--oom tenement in the Dal Gali.

She belongs to a farmer's family. She has only one

youncJer sister \vho has been l<ept by a Sardar truck-driver.

He has onJ.y one brother \vho lives with her. Her father died

when she '~s a child. Then her mother married another person

by \'lhom her younger brother and sister were born. Her mother,

died about ten years ago. She has nO\"f no connection with her

mother's sr"cond husband but she does look after her younger

brother and sistera

Before j ::>ining prostitution she used to make 'Bidis'

in Dhamtari. She hud married also but within a few months she

gave up her husband. Being good looking and fair in complexion

and uttractive in figure she won the attention of a number of

people who showe>red their affection on her and also paid her

money. She Has fond o£ using cosmetics and wearing ornaments

• \'lhich her lovers guve her. She also started drinking with

them c::, th'Y insisted on her drinking. Thus she was lead

:c1-1uy to ~h" easy ways of life. Seeking independence from her

lYmsehold, she cam,-" a\lay from iJhamtari and st::1rted living

She is quite happy in her profession and would not

like to leave it. She is particularly proud of her inde-

pendence from the slavery of men. She has no in·tention of

going back to married life even if an opportunity is offered

to her. Till a few years ago, she used to be very sexy. She,\ j

I used to invi·tc handsome men to sleep with her even free of

charge.

She makes about rupees thirty per day. THo to three

persons visit her c:.very day. Besides she has two other girls

staying with her who pay her a part of their earnings in lieu

of sharing i:he house which has been rented by her for Thlpe_es

eighty per a month. Practically, she acts as their keeper

though for ,P.ear ot law she would not say it. She has been

able to s<;ve rupees six to seven thousands and has purchc.sed

u. piece' o:':: land in Dhamtari.

Being older in profession and yet active, 'G' relates

the ciif.terent ·tastes and traits of her customers. Boys from

the School and the College visit her to have the first lesson

in sex. They have to be told h0\•1 to do it. Some of them

bring 'Kok Shastras' with pictures of different poses of sex

which they try. 'rhere are perverts who get pleasure only

in seeing others in sexual intercourse. So, they are kept in

another room to watch from the peep-hole the next customer

in intercourse lvith her.or with one of her t~to girls. Some

of the old people love to hear stories of sex·as a sort of

pr<'!lu•te to sex int""rcourse. 'G' also sells obscene photographs

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of women and men in the ~ct of copulation. She gets these

through her customer who brings these from Bombay. She makes

good profit in this side-business.

'G' is particularly not unhappy about the lot of a

prostitute. She does not complain of any maltreatment from

her customers though some times some people under the in­

fluence of drinks have slapped her particularly when she had

not obliged them in the manner that they had desired, for

example doing 'fellatio' or keeping the legs on the man's

shoulders during the act, etc. She is visited by al~ sorts

of people including foreigners from Bhilai. She does not

like the Sikhs who are known for misbehaving, beating, etc.

the prostituteo;. She practises the profession even in the

menstrual period and keeps the lights off so that this is not

detected by the customers. She does not allow any one for '

more than ten to fifteen minutes. If one is not able to

complete his act within this period, he is physically thrown

out by her. Her normal charge for her visit is rupees five

to rupeces ten. In a few cases, some people who pay rupees

fifty to sixty are allo\ied for the whole day. Slch people

<J.re generally outsiders. No one is allov1ed to stay in her

house -during the night because police generally check in

night. Normally, she does not allow any physical touching

abov·~ the waist.

Though- she is not unhappy '.-lith her lot, she S:.ill

would not like her daughtc:rs to join the orofession because

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inwardly she does realise ·thut this is not a· respectable

protession. She would like her daughters to marry and live

a respectable life.

She has contacted disease and spends about rupees

twenty to thirty every month of her treatment. She takes

periodical injections.

There are no touts in her profession. There is also

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no 1 Pahal~van 1 or strong man in her locality to get protection,

?here is only one lady 'J .B 1 who is an old inveterate prosti-

tute of the area aged about sixty. she has built up a three

storied house in the locality where a number of rooms are

rented to the proSitutes. She has been a criminal herself.

Her sons are also 'goondas •. She provides some protection

to the prostitutes whenever necessary.

1 G 1 has no hobbies. She does not pray. She drinks

occasionally but does not smoke. Rice is her staple food.

She takes bath once a day in the afternoon before starting

the evening.

Obviously from 'G's case v1e find that she has joined

the profession just to have an easy and comfortable life and ...

not simply out of necessity. EVen prior to her joining the

pro=ession, she was making 1bidis' and making her living but

::l1e chose this easier v1ay o:: life and has been in it for the

last so many years. For her old age, she has no worries

since she has accumulate>d some Droperty in Dhamtari. Further

she has already taken steps in the direction of being a

'Ghanvali' since two young girls are staying in her rooms

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and paying her partially ou·t of her income. With the further

advancement of age, she will give up doing prostitution her­

self end live on the earning of otherso

CASE STUDY No.3

'H' is aged thirty five and a mother of three children

all three sons aged ten, seven and two. She is thin, tall and

durk in complexion, Due to mal-nutrition she is rather ariemic

in appearance and in dress she is quite dirty. She is illi-

terate.

'H' s mother died when she was about four years old. , She

knows nothing abou·t her fath<'r, She has no brothers or sisters.

Till age of t>·lelve, she was looked after by a cousin of her

mother. Thereafter she has been earning her own living by

doing ode jobs. Her mother's cousin then went away to calcutta

=or making a living and has since then been never heard of.

Hcer first sex-experience -.ru.s with an old man when she \vas too

young to know \Vhat it meant.

She has changed husbands about four times. From these

husbands she has three children. In between the period when

she hilS left one and has yet to find the other, she takes to

prostitution. For this purpose she has rented a small room

in Ram Nagar at the rent of rupees ten per month. She has

chosen Ulis area because in this locality are situated a

number of dens 1t1here Homen are supplied on money by three

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persons namely 'A', 1 G' and 'B'. She does not pay commission

to any one ilnd works independently.

'11' hc1s no hobbies. To be able to live with her

children is her greates·t concern. She drinks and smdlkes in

the company of her male customers. She eats rice which is

her staple food. She does not kno"l anything about religion.

She hccs never prayed and none has taught her to pray.

She makes about four to six rup·ees per day. With this, '\.

she looks after her children. Her charges are low and her

customers are poor people like rickshaw walas, labourers and

hawkers whose age VLlries between twenty to fifty years. They

had relations with her only for sex and behaved like beasts.

She takes customers from the roa.dside to her house or

the customers pick her up from the Railway station or Motor

• Stand or from the Bazar and take her to places like Ghhokranalla

on the Mahasamund road, the Open Ground behind the Jail and

even to private houses. Some times, her customers after having

consumed opium, or 'madak' harass her a lot and continue in

the act for hours together. In need of money, as she is1 she

bPa rs 1~ith them.

She consider this profession a dirty one. Had she got

h·~r husband to supoort her and her children, she would not have

been on the road. She does a little labour or some time

sells 'chana' but this does not bring her sufficient money

to make a living.

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'H' s case is the case of dire "necessity and one feels

pity on her. Her family life has been a frustrated one and

in fact she has experienced no filial affections. All the

same, one feels pity on the patrons of such >vomen vJho are

unc:ttn.ct:ive, diseased, dirty in appearance and dress and

simply human forms for the mechanical sex act.

Ci\.SE STUDY N0.4

'R. B • aged about thirty is a dark middle sized woman.

There is hardly any physical appeal in her. She belongs to

Satnami caste. She has not rceceived any education. Before

marriage she used to do 1 rej a 1 (casual labour) 1,o10rk until

she married one 'A' and herself became a M.l slim. She has two

children both girls aged four and one, both by 'A'. Her other

relations are in the village and are doing farming.

1 R.B 1 s father who \vas a ricksha>valla died while she

uas young. Her mother married another person who did not look

after properly the children by the previous husband. She had

on,-, sis·ter and onP brother 1-1ho both later died. There used to

br' c.,uarrels in the house every day. At this stage, she came in

contact with 'A' who was elder to her by about twenty years •

.3hf! at the age o': fifteen left her house and came to 'A'.

'A' was himself ronning a se:x:-den in Pandri where

he used to get commission from women for utilizing his house

for prostitution before the police intensified its drive

against such prostitution dens of which there were a number

in Pundri at the houses of 'K', •s• and 'A'. Her husband's

den was one of that type. Some times she used to offer

herself to customers in the knowledge of her husband.

The dens having been removed by constant raids by the

police, she had taken to street walking and she frequented

such public places like Railwuy Station, Motor Stand, Station

'Chowraha •, etc. from 1vhe re she was picked up by persons

desirous of sex to places of their choice. She makes about

rupees five to six per day and some times she makes nothing

2.t allo

She does street walking only for the sake of money.

She has no interest in it. She experiences lots ot hardsh:i:ps

in the profession. Some times people take her and do not pay

her aft';'r having had her intimate physical company. For

example two Ghorkhas took her to Katora Talab and after having

done v1it.h hcor they threvl hc,r out withou·t making any payment.

Likewise one day a number ot grown up school boys took her

in a rickshaw to a nearby tarm and having done with her in

the ciurkness, they sent her av:ay lvithout making payment of

r~ven a pie.

In short, her case is the case ot dire necessity and

the bad fate ot having an evil husband. Her husband is a

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brothel keeper. P.e is a ,criminal and a history sheeter 'ot

the police. He has been to jail thrice, twice for stealing

and once for possession of liquor. She has taken to street

walking to earn money to support her household. Her husband

is also an active participant in the above since he forces

her to do this to bring money. Occasionally she does 'mazdoori'

but sev<'ral times she is not able to get it and as such she

has to do prostitut-ion. Besides prostitution brings compa­

ratively more money per day as compared to labour or hard

work put in.

CASE STUDY NO.5

'B.B' is a tall, slightly heavy, fair complexioned

young girl who moves through out the day and night at odd

places, soliciting visitors and taking them for a spree. There

are no fixed timings for her to go to her parents. Some times

she uoes not go home for days and nights together. Her parents

also do not bother about her. She has never been to the school

and is uneducated. Having no fixed abode, she is irregular in

her food, dress and personal cleanliness habits. She is like

a 1 Tomboy 1• For fun sake, she cycles a ricksav; some times.

::>he indul<JeS in le\'id jokes with people at motor stand, rickshaw

s::anc<s and vegetable market. Some times in the night she wears

mcJlP attire anci visits some boys who live together in a private

ho:;~el type building but in a respectable locu.lity. This she

does at the instance ot boys who c:lo not want people to know

that a prostitute visits them.

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Her mother who is a satnarni by caste was kept by a

Sind hi Goonda by name . s. s 1 • After partition, he had come

to Rccipur and started a small hotel at the Raipur Motor Stand.

It was during this time that he kept 'H.B's mother as a maid

servant for washing utensils at the hotel. He got into inti-

macy with her and from this union, was born 1H.B'. Fortune .

went on smiling on •s.s•. His daily income went on increasing

From a small hotel, he made a big one. As money starting

:pouring, he started purchasing property. Thus he acquired a

status in society. With this acquisition of status, he started

to live respectably in Sindhi community for the betterment

of the prospects ot the children of his married wife. And

thus as a first stage towards respectability he threw out

'M.B's mother. Soon she contacted a constable barber in the

Railway Police who kept her.

'H.B' >·Jas initiated in prostitution by her own mother.

She used to bring customers for her. Novl she does not need her

mother's help as she is already well known and can be easily

contacted by those who desire her. Her second sister is also

of the same type. A little time ago she was caught by sarsiwa

Police \·Thile going with a Sikh in a truck. The police thought

t1>c.t she \~as being kidnapped and so detained her under suspicion.

2Ut soon cum<" the mother of the girl alleging that the police

vJas unnecessarily harossing her daughter and her son-in-law,

the Sardar. The fact VTas that the mother had sent a.way her

younger daughter with the aged Sardar to give him sex-company

"or a fet• days in return for two hundred ropecs which she had

r·?ceived.

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1 ~1.B 1 s case is an instance of a girl inheriting un­

consciously the evil traits of her mother. Having received

no education nor having lived in any intelligent society,

she has ncover bothGred as to what she is doing is right or

wrong. B0ing young in age and in the full bloom ot her youth, ·

she loves free life and experiences with different types of

men. She is fond of pictures and often imitates the gait

and dialogues ot film actresses which her patrons very much

liked. She is often seen in the second show of pictures where

she along with other girls of her type is taken out by men,.

Some times alone, some times in pair and .somet.imes in group

to spend the night in an orgy of sex, nornial and perverted.

OC.SE STUDY N0.6 ·

'E' is a young girl of about eighteen. she is wheatish

in complexion, medium built and sweet and smiling in her dis­

position. Generally finely dressed and walking Hith a made

up gait, she \vould' pasc as a college girl. But the things are

otherwise. She is illiterate. She is born of a Brahmin father

u.nd a Sc1tnami mother. The father runs a hotel in Raj nandgaon.

She has a brother who studies in the matriculation class and

stays \vith the father at Raj nandgaon. About seven years ago,

her Satnami mother left her Hindu husband who had kept her at

Rd nandgaon and came a1·1ay to Ru ipur along with the little

girl '!1 1 u.nd started selling vegetables at the Gole Bazar.

Here she came in con~act with a Muslim young man by name 'R'

who hc..d been a previous convict and a known railway thief.

She married this Muslim man and started living with him a~blJ!:\Y• '.'"

with the little girl. In due course, the girl flowered into

youth where-upon the mother of the girl and her muslim·husband_

started thinking how to make the most of it;

A mention \·lill not be out of place regarding the mother

of the girl, who seems to have no inhibitions about sex and

considers it as any human activity like drinking, eating, etc.

Her physical features and particularly her facial wrinkles

give her out as a woman of vrcry cheap and mean morality. At

a very early age, 'H' developed consciousness about the sale

of sex and knev< what v<as seYll.al intercourse. Probably she

heed seen her mother and her visitors in compromising posture

and engaged in intimate talk, vulgar and passionate language.

For defloring the maiden hood of her daughter, she

started bargaining with a fe\v Hell-to-do lovers of female

flesh and ultimately struck the bargain with a Bohra Muslim

Seth. On the appointed day and time, she took her daughter

in a ricksha,.,, dressed in the nicest clothes to a room at the

back o:': the shop of the seth. She sat out while her daughter

had the first and the devastating sex assault amid shrieks

and cries to be foll01ved by a prcosentation ot rupees one :-

thou8and. This •vas the beginning and there were many repeti;.

tions of that. With the help ot hotel bearers she started

visiting hotels and lod9es like 'P.L', 's.L', 'V.L' and would

get a sum of rup<.~es fifty to hundred in return of a few minutes'

com~any provided to the highly paid representatives of medical

ilnd other companies who stayed in the hotels while on tour.

The passengers in the hotel paid more as they got the girls

in their rooms without fear of being cheated or swindled by

primpB and middlemen or losing their reputation by visiting

a common brothel. With her earnings her mother was able to

build a house. She and her husband would sit in the front

running a 'pan' shopR while 'M' would sit inside and enter-

tain the visitor whom they would send in after having obtainec

·the money in advance.

When the police raids on such prostitution dens got

intensified, her fetther and mother took her to Calcutta w~th

a viev< to selling her for a heuvy sum in the prostitution

area. But this could not ma-terialise as before the deal could

be struck, the vigilance vTing o:' Calcutta Police caught the

father and the mother along '•lith the girl suspecting that they

had kidnapped and brought the girl for immoral purposes as by

features, looks, and complexion, she did not appear to be their

daughter. Hoviever on the entreaties of the girl, her father

and mother were let off and all the three come back to Raipur.

The Police onslaught was continuing at Raipur and so they took

the girl to Bombay. They came back after a few weeks staying '

that they had married their daughter to a Muslim who owned a

number of taxis. The fact however is that she is working as

a call girl in Bombay. Every month she sends a substantial sum

'co her mother and father. Now her mother and father do nothing

c;nd are day after day purchasing more aRd more lands and property.

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'M' s case is an instance o:E: :1;ial~l.' int-\ the evil way • '' ' ··.~~ ·: ' Y,:, ~

due to the family back ground and at the active instance of.

the mother who wanted her daughter ·to earn easy money by

selling her body. Regarding her owh s~l.f slte is little

concerned. Being uneducated and having had no intellig~nt

company she has never bothered about the. correctness or

otherwise of her v;ay of life or what .. wil,.l pappen to her when ''1'<''-", : - ,J." '", 'I

she grows old. At the moment, she' El~~$s·t6 .~njoy her life. ':<~!". .

in the company of her patrons, Indian and.lforeign in the poshi

hotels of Bombay, drinks the best wine, eats the best food,

wears tne latest type of clothes and being young enjoys sex

in the company some times of young people v;ho take drugs and

use artificial aids for increased sex pleasure.

CASE STUDY NO.7

studies 7 to 9 are a result of interrogation by a police

party when the subjects were found in the rooms of prostitutes

of Dal Gali area of Raipur. The police had gone there for

usual combing operations during which visitors to prostitutes

who were o:= suspicious nature \'/ere interrogated. aJ.ch raids

are often organised by the local police. · Dlring these a number

of previous convicts and fug·itives from law. are caught. This

is so because, criminals hardly lead a normal life and are ' fl'"• ·l- \, ·--:

often found in the company of prostitut~ beca.se 9ft only that

they satisfy their biological n'-'cessity .of sex ~,.$;,flso provide

them shelter and hiding place from eyes of the police·and

arrange the disposal of stolen property through other persons

who are of dubious character and visit the prostitutes.

A roddsLie Dhaba . lbt(...-.ls o c tris ty·)e RD r on th- na-tional hi?hway from Bombay to Calcutta whic gh Rui~ur. b'Clc h hotels cater r.1ostly to th ... rockwallas th the day and niqht. ~hey Sll')r>ly JTI als, tea and cold drinl':s . ':..'hore are al\vays som~'-' cot., lying in the op""D for customers to r:-.st a'i:tor meals bt=>fore they continue tb~:i.c omvard journey .. Som• times liquor is S':rv~=>d i n the inside rooms as also some \.rom..;n w'lo re ready to give sex com­pany for a little mon~yo

'L.S' aged forty is a truck driver by profession •.

He is illiterate and hales from district Patiala, ~;l~b~ ,. {'- ''

He is married and has thref? children. His family stays in

the village. He is employed in the service of a Motor t

Transport Firm at j3ombay. Through out, he is on the move

while on his job as a truck driver. His work carries him

all over India wherever he is sent with goods. He is a hefty,

tall, young man of thirty five. He drinks cotitry liquor

daily. He also takes opium which according to him helps

him in long distance driving. He has no fixed places for

fooding. He eats food at way-side hotels and has a good

meal every time.

'L.S' feels absolutely no scruples about visiting

prostitutes. He finds no harm in it. He takes no precaution

against disease except that he tries to pass urine soon after

the act. As per his own statement, he has not yet got any

infection of Venereal disease though he has visited prosti-

tutes all over India for example Faras Road of Bombay, G.B.

Road of Delhi, Sonagacchi and Khidirpura of Calcutta, Mahboob-.

ki-Hehandi of Hyderabad, Ganga Jamuna of Nagpur, Ghawri Bazar

of Gwalior, Kinari Bazar of Agra, Chm·tk of ll.Icknow, Howrah

Bridge of Vishakapatnam, BasQri near Taj Mahal at Agra,

Machhli Tola at Kanpur, Kath Bazar at Delhi, Parena in Pathankot

and other such red light areas. Apart from visiting these

known red light are>as, he has haJ affairs with several women

who are provided on the national high ways for little amounts

by the small road side hotelwallas.

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1L.S' feels somewhat justified in visiting-prostitutes.

He says to enjoy sex is a human necessity and it must be en~

joyed whenever opportuni·ties are available. He says ·that he

is able to visit his wife only once in six months and that

also for a few days and has therefore always to look for other

women for plP.asure. Accordina to 'L.S' the al~ve is the lot -of' ninety five percent of truc'e;: drivers. The truck drivers

eat well, drink well, work well, earn well and so they must

also enjoy well.

If sex satisfaction was available at the house, he and

most of the people of this type would not go to prostitutes.

Hco does feel that prostitution is a dirty thing and bad in

all respects. But he has to resort to it, to keep his nervous

tension relieved. It he do<cs not go to a prostitute for some

time, he feels highly unhappy, heavy in body and heavy in

mind and grows irritant in nature. He hu.s no particular pre-

fc=rence for any particular type of women. Slrely he prefers

fair looking healthy and young l·lOmen.

'L.3 1 s case is a·case of necessity. He goes to prosti-

tut-2s to fulfil his biological needs. It has been seen that

the majority of visitors to prostitutes belong to such types

ot peo,ole like truck drivers, tntck cleam~rs, agents of com-

mc:rciiil firms, etc. who by n,1ture of their occupation have to

be on the move ahmys and as such visit red light areas for

:::;,<tisfaction of their sex n-~eds. Since they have no local

uc(ruaintanc''' and as such no local reputation, there is no danger

:'or th,?m for lov:ering themselves socially in the.;yes of the peopl~

O,SE S~'UDY N0.8

'H.D' caste Sindhi is wor~dng at a shop in Ganj area.

He has been educated upto matriculation. He is aged about

eighteen. He is a young man vlith fairly good looks. He lives

in a joint family and has two elder brothers who are married

and also live \•lith him in the same house. He, his father and

his brothers all,are employed at the shops of others. They

go to the shops in the morning at about eight O'clock and

return at about nine O'clock in the night. During the noon

time, they come home for tvlo hours for lunch and rest.

\.fhen detected by the police in the room of a prostitute

'H.LJ' Has highly nervous. He was shaking and tremblin:g·too

much and begged to be excused and allowed to be left lest any

one came to know of the fact of his having visited a prostitute.

},or 'H.D' this was his first visit to a prostitute.

He never had any sex experience any where. He belongs to a

middle class family of a fairly good social repu·tation. He

was already engaged to a girl of his parent's choice and was

going to be married 1·1ithin about a month 1 s time. He had tried

to learn knowledJe about sex from his friends and some cheap

toot path Hindi Books. Talking to friends and reading the

books made him all the more nervous and have doubts about his

sex ;,:Jotency as he had brcen indulging in self-abuse since

l .. :~t few y·.:ars. 1-i:' i'hld come to .U;:l Ga.li after a lot of de­

hlting in his mind anci aftr;r having taken nccessacy precautions

to hide this fact.

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'H.D's case is a very common ·case amon'g young visitors

to prostitutes. This is possibly uue to the fact that ·there

is no provision for sex education and marriage c(ll!1selling· in

India. l1any young boys like 'H.D' visit prostitutes to have

sex knowledge. l1ore often than not, ·they get infected with

a vile disease. Some times after having succeeded with a

prostitute in the sex act, they are failures on the bridal

!:light since a prostitute si:ands no comparison with a maiden

girl of no previous experience and with all the shyness of a

young bride. In the red light C~rea, the sex act has absolutely

no personal or sentimen·tal back ground. It is only a mechanical

act, done in haste to minimise stay in a prostitute's house

und :run lesser risk of detection. Besides the prostitute

herself is in a hurry to have more customers in little time.

such a sex act thus becomes responsible for maladjustment in

actual life. Thus visit to a prostitute instead of helping

young men towards happy home life results in the opposite of it.

C.:,. SE STUDY NO. 9

•c.K' is a resident of Hodhapara, Raipur. He sells

children's toys m<J.cie o:' paper and clay and thus makes about

four to five rupess per day. <>.

He is married man and has three

children. He is aged about thirty five and knov1s only little

Urdu. He is a previous convict o: five timr-•s. He has been a

pick pocket of the town. As pr=r his own statement, he has

given up criminal life and is now·living honestly.

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Since his very young boy-hood he had been in bad

company. With his companions he used to do thieving and

picking pockets at railway stations, motor stands, running

trains, 'melas',etc. He learned this trade from his friends.

With his companions he used to move all over the area near

about R;lipur, Nagpur, and Bilaspur. With his friends, he

uo;ed to visit liquor shops and 'madak addas'. From there he

learned all bad hnbits. Even these days he can not live

vlithout having taken some quantity of 'madak' every day.

Along with his friends he also lParned to visit prostitutes.

He has thus been visiting prostitutes for the last t~fifteen

years. After marriage however he has been visiting them less

frequently. But he does visit them off and on. He has old

con'cacts among them. Some times he does not even pay ·them

for an act. He suffers from venereal disease.

'CK' s case is a case o:': a number of such criminals

of dubious character who hover around the red light area.

'rhey com!':lit crimes and either share the booty with prostitutes

for their having given some useful infonnation or for their

help in disposing off the stolen property. such people also

work as touts and bring customers to prostitutes and get

commission from the prostitutes and some times from the

customer also. such people are ahrays found in localities of

ill fame. They stand in readiness to cone to the help of

prostitu::e if any customer mis-behaves or assaults them.

Some time they do the blackmail when they find any person of

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good reputation visiting a prostitute. Immediately on his

coming out or while he is in the room ·they would accost him

and threaten him ·to part with whatever he has or else they

would tell people in the town about his having come in the

red light area. Some times they vJould cleverly take well-

to-do men to lonely areas or houses in the~ope of getting

them younger and better stuff and there loot them. Persons

of sound reputation like the theif bitten by a serpent while

stealing would not even report the matter to the police out

of shame and thus such a criminal will be further encouraged

in his anti-social activities.

c.;o,SE STUDY NO.lO

'R.L 1 is a Baniya by caste. He is aged about forty.

He is married. for the last twen·ty years. He has three sons

and two daughters. One of his daughters is going to be married

shortly. He has a good business and makes about four to five

thousand rupees a month and some times even rrore. 1 R.L 1 is a ·

very well-to-do man and is a graduate in Commerce.

1 R.L 1 goes to 1 tawaifs 1 who generally sing and dance.

Comparatively, they are better stuff in looks and youth. They

are comparatively cleaner also. 'rhey charge not less than

thirty to forty rupees for a sex act, which they indulge in

after the evening's 'mujra'.

1 H.L' always goes to prostitutPs for sake of variety

in sex enjoymr~nt. The money that he has mak,:s it possible

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for him to enjoy like this. Even on business when he goes

to places like Bombay, he makes it a point to visit prosti­

tutes of all.types and of all communities for the sake of

enjoyment. He has not yet contacted disease.

'R. L 1 s case is a common case of well-to-do persons

v-iith easy money who go to prostitutes for the same of enjoy-:

ment and variety in sex. According to 1 R.L 1 s statement he

enjoys sex more ou·tside his home because his wife who is a

mother of five children has ceased to have sex appeal, is not

prepared to allmv him his sex perversions, and above all, each

time he goes to her, he undergoes the risk of the sixth child

vJhich neither he nor she. wants not due to any financial dif-

ficulties but they do not Hant to shoulder any additional

responsibility and neither are ready for any family planning

precaustionso

C!'.SE STUDY NO.ll

1 P.21 is a lecturer in Physics in a private college of

N2gpur. He is aged thirty five, married since last twelve a.r~d.

years, has three children. His wife who is younger than him

by five years, is quite good looking and an M. sc. His fir&t

sex experience was with a prostitute at the age of twcntytwo,

onP year before marriage. He had gone to a prostitute to

t••st his manlinP.ss since hP. had been given to masturbation

since the age of sixteen. He failed in his attempt \-lith the

prostitute but still then he married. He had failed with his

wife also in the first two attempts but ~ater on succeeded.

He suffers from no perversions. His monthly income is about

Rs. 700/- per month. He has suffered from no specific diseases.

By habit, he is shy and reserved, given to study. Ever since

his first contact with a prostitute at the age of twenty two,

he must have contacted prostitutes about 25 times though

succeeded in having a full act v1ith only one.

He visi-ts prostitutes once in a year or once in many

years since he cannot go to red light area at the place of

his work for loss of social reputation. He visits them only

when he goes out and that also vrhen safe opportunities are

available.

He visits prostitutes for the sake of variety and fur­

ther because he is not happy at home. His wife is an over bea­

ring type and quarrelsome. There is a quarrel in the house

practically every day. Their natures are not compatible. He

is an introvert, reserved and shy; she is extrovert, social

and mixing. He is not economically Hell off Hhereas she Hants

all the money for her fashionable needs. He is not Hell placed

in society whereas she alv1ays \vants status. She is sexy and

given to self-abu·se. He is not able to bring her to climax

and there is ill feelin<J after each coitus. Thus sex has lost

its >:>lace in their marriage.

OB::it:RVAT10NS

From our study, we fincl that women tum prostitutes to

earn a living, to escape from the domination o: man, to enjoy

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sex, to have luxuric=s of life with little labour,· and to

break avray from unhappy homes. On the other hand the persons.

who p<1tronise prostitu·tG .. can 'be divided into three categories~

(a) Men of neurotic or other disturbed personality, who,.are

able to obtain satisfaction only in the particular sexual re­

lationshdJp they can have with prostitutes. In this are inclu­

ded the possibility of satisfaction of sexual perversions,

having sex without responsibility of giving pleasure to the j

other partner and without incurring the risk of bringing burden

of another child in the family.

(b) Men who are lonely or who are away from hol!le etc. Most

of them want no more·than temporary companionshlp.

\ (c) The acfcrlescents who visit prostitutes to learn the:,~rt;

of sex-technique and to test their manhood. The association

with prostitutes is mc1rked firstly by anonymity since these·

girls have no faces to be recognised and no social st~tus to

be connected. Secondly, association with a prostitute is

only momentary with no future. It i·s like a time-gap cut O'L\t

o:E a man's life in whi,ch nothing haupened. Thirdly, the

association is without significance. The man after the act.

forgets the -vroman and the woman forgets the man, no responsi-

bility attaching to any out-come of the act either in the

torm ot in"':E",ction of disease that u man might get or a child

that the woman might bear. '

RAPIST ANJ? THE RAPED

The accused, a Village Panchayat Munshi working in 2outh Raipur (right ) o.gP-d Sixty, hims 1£ d rand -

father, raped a young woman (1 ft) aq d twenty 4=i e .

Even old uge is no guarunt e -or not commit in s x

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CASE; .::iTUlJ X NU .J.

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'B' religion Hindu, aged 16 years, 'das raped on 8th

February 1960. She is medium sized, wheatish in complexion

and has well modulated features. She belonged to a middle

class family, her father was a farrmer and her husband also

is a farmer. She is fair in her looks and has a medium built.

She has studied upto 5th Hindi. She was reped by accused 'HR'.

aged 40 while she was returning after answering call of nature

in the evening time in the lonely farm. She said that the

accused caught hold of her hands, threw her on the ground and

inspite of her cries he climbed over her breast, pulled up her

sari, and then committed sexual intercourse by inserting his

organ in her vagina and she went on crying during the whole

time till he finished in her and left her. During the course

of the act, the accused kept on pressing her mouth with one

of' his hands. He threatened to press her neck if she resisted.

The accused is also of the same caste as the girl and is father

ot tou.r children. He too is afarmer and has a small piece· of

land. He is uneducated. He has no hobbies except his work.

He 'drinks very occasionally. Atter the incident she immediately

reported the matter to the village people who held the Panchayat

and when the accused was not ready to pay the fine of rupees

two thousand which the village panchayat imposed on him, the

' matter was reported to the pol:ice. TJ;lis took tl-to day's time. • 4

The village is situ<ot•"d i•.i: '' :.!i,;l::,nc'· of ten miles. At the

police station Cr.No.12/376 IPc'wa~ registered. The gi~l

was referred _to the medical expert who found no marks of

injuries on her body. There were no eye witnesses. HovJever

on the evidence of the prosecutrix alone the case was chal­

laned and in the covrt of law for ''ant of evidence it failed.

The accused on retrospection does feel ·that what he did

,-;as not correct. He feels sorry that he could not control his

desire when he found a highly seductive girl in lonely sur-

roundings. He suddenly lost control and raped her. The

accused is not a previous convict. According to him, he had

no extra-marital sex relations with any one. Be.fore marriage

however like all young men, as he says, he did have sex three,

or four times with a village girl. He has no history of

veneral disease. The incident initially put him in a bad way

with his wife and other relations and villagers. But this is

now a forgot-Een story and his reputcc.tion has no more remained

affected by the above incident. He is leading a normal li~e

both in the family and the village.

The girl felt quite miserable after the incident and -'

remained in a state of shock for days together after the

incident. But this did not and has not aftected her reputa­

tion or name as she was innocent and that she had reported

the incident herself even though she wa's not seen by any one.

The above is a common example in the rural ·areas. The

animal sex desire is the motivating facto~. The loneliness

provided by the village environment fa~~iitates the act.

This is a practice of the villagers to refer the case to

Panchayat. The delay so caused results in· obliteration of

whatever circumstantial and medical evidence that can be

available since panchayats take atleast two days and even

more to decide the case. The distance of the Police station

further results in delayed reporting. This leads to further

destruction of evidence and contradictions in the statements

of ·the persons concerned due to the passage of time. The

over-all result is that the police is not able to collect the

cogent evidence to bring the culprit to book. Even when the

case is challaned in the court of law it fails. 'rhe net result

is that the accused and the people of the like-mind further

get encouraged to do such acts.

C.'~SE STUDY NO.2

1 s. B 1 aged 12 years was alleged to have been raped by

one 'P 1 caste satnami aged tv1entyeight years. He gave bventy-

five paisa to her to bring ground nuts and after purchasing.

ground nuts '"hen she brought in, he forifefully dragged her to

the 1 Kabha 1 and after closing the door, he raped her. The

incident took place during evening time. The village is at

the distance of about ten miles from the police station with

a good road. The girl complained of bleeding and physical•

injury. The report having been made within about three hours

of the occurrence, a case was registered at PS Kurud. The girl .~

i

\vas n;ferred to the doctor immedidc:·,ly who found no marks on

the p.d.vate paris nor on any other place of her body.

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D.lring investigation it was found that the report was

a false one. The father of the girl had a quarrel with the

accused over a land diE:pute. The police had alr,~ady filed

complaint against both the parties in the court of SDM Dhamari

for binding them over for maintaining peace. These cases were

under consideration of &tb Divisional Magistrate. The father

had concocted the case by tutoring cleverly his daughter.

The above is not an uncommon case which often fails.

Charges are brought to harass persons for obvious reasons.

In this case the father of the girl being no·t a very clever

man had not gon~ too far. A clever man would have even mana-

ged swelling and physical injuries on the private parts of ;

the girl.

One po·int is made out in this case. In higher commu-

nities, the fact of rape or even an assault is hidden by the

parents as such a case dooms the fate of the girl and no one

\·muld come forward to marry her. But this is not so here.

It can sometimes be concocted here. A rape on a \voman, here

does not essentially bring upon her a stigma to affect her fate

c~sE STUDY NO.3

•s• aged forty five years was raped by Constable 'B' •

's• is married since last t1.>>enty two years. • Her husband is

' older than her by about ten years. She bore two children long

ago and both died in their infancy. She is uneducated. She ' . doe~•not go to temple and does not pray. She has only heard

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of Ramayan but not known the details. She is well built,

dark in complexion and has a good height.

The incident happened at the house of the complainant

in village Bhalesur. The husband of the woman who was a

village Kotwar had been out of the village for night patro­

lling vJhcn ·the constable who happened to visit the village

came to her house and finding her sleeping alone in the dark­

nesfl, he raped her. At this juncture, the brother of the

woman happened to come to the house and finding a stranger

on the cot of his si~er, shouted "who was that"'? At this she

cried that she had been raped by the Constable \¥hose name she

did not know. But she could identify him. The matter was

reported at Police Station Kharora. During investigation, it

came out that the woman was already in illegal intimacy \vith

the accused who was young and healthy dnd much younger to her.

On the other hand, her husband •ras her senior by ten years and

due to this, there was not proper compatibility betvreen the

two. She had deliberately not mentioned his name and in t·he

identification parade she very cleverly identified a different

person other than the accused. The result was that the accused

could not be challaned.

The accused denied having comrnitted the crime at all

and alleged that he was falsely implicated because he had

earlier pulled up her Kot<Iar husband for not doing his duties

properly. His statement does not deserve any credence. After

the incident, people in the department have known him to be

a chai-acterless person.

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The above case brin'gs out a very clear characteristic

point. Most of the Constables in Chhatisgarh are from U.P.,

Bihar and Rewa side. ~l'his is also true of the other depart-

ments whose members have to live in and visit villages on

government job like a school master, veterinary assistant,

gram sevak, etc. Such employees mostly do not keep their

families with them. Their families are generally left at

their homes to look after their aged parent:s and also to work,

in the fields, Keeping the family away from the place of

vmrk, makes them' sex-hungry. Besides being better bodied,

and more neat and clean in comparison to local people, the

local women also feel attracted towards them, It is heartening

to note that since some years the government have declared a

policy to recruit people of the local area. Besides more

schools and colleges have come up and are still coming up

af,ter the independence of the country, After some time it is

likely that there ,,Jill be no outsiders in the local government

posts, This might help to some extent in minimising the sex

offences,

CriSE STUDY N0,4

'D' aged thirty two years was raped by one 'JL' aged

thirty years resident of Rajnandgaon.

is a healthy woman with a good height and dark complexion and

c,Jrries iS herself straight and broad shouldr:red. She has married

for the third time, Her only sistP.r has married for the second

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time. She is fond of seeing pictures. She has not hean!any . . religious discourses. She does not pray. The incident happene(i .

on the night of 6-1-73 in a Dharmashala at Bagbehra. On the

night of occurrence, the accused came to the verandah of

Dnaramshala where she was sleeping Hi·th her husband. The

accused engaged himself in talking 1vith her husband. Her hu.stand

woke up. The accused gave Rs. seven to her husband. Then the

husband continued to sleep in v~randah and the accused took

her in a room of Dharamshala and after ha..:ring clo.sed the door,

he raped her. The chowkidar seeing some mischief raised a ·

cry vlhere upon she gave out a case of rape. Offence was re-

gistered at Police Station Bagbehra. Investigation revealed

that the woman was of loose character and it 1vas a case of

con sen to

The accused is a merchant vJho has a flourishing business.

Be is a married man since last ten years and has two children.

;-Ic is a matricul,'•.V". He often goes for sex-satisfaction out-

side his house for the sake of variety. 1-E finds himself safe

with st-teet walkers rather than going to red-light area where

there is every possibility of being seen by known people who

can spoil his name in the community. Besides, there in the

red-light area, there is the danger 9f being harassed by police

and being looted by goondas and pimps who frequenti~visit such

"laces. 'JL' has visited women for extra-marital relations

so many times. But it is for the first tim<e that he had

bern caught.

The above is a typical case particularly in lower

communities where some husbands though extremely few do not

mind their wives being enjoyed by some other men in return

for some money. The woman has also no objection. It is

well known that a number of women are taken by. some husbands

and relatives to 1 Red;..light areas' of Calcutta and other

places and made to work as prostitutes. These husbands and

relatives live on the earnings of these women. The whole day.

they are away from houses and loiter around, It is only late

in night that they retire to their wife 1 s apartment to leave

again the next morning. In such marriages, there is hardly

anything sacred, living together is only an arrangement of

convenience without any inner feelings of love, affection

or devo·tion. When the women become .. independent and well

settled in their new surroundings, they throw out the hubands

who come back to Chhattisgarh and cany some more women to

the red light area and so the chain conthmc~s. This is how

the immoral traffic in women takes 8lace. Some times for

holidays these women visit their houses and when they are found

at·tired in good clothes and ornaments 'che other girls get

attracted tov;ards their way of lite and also accompany ~hem

to join their protession.

CASE STUDY N0,5

1 K1 aged thirty five was raped by six persons on the

night of 9-4-63, These six persons named 1 B1 , 1 K1 , 1 JKI, 1J3'

I r I I I s I ed hi were ag t rty one, twenty five, thirty, twenty eigh1

thirty and twenty six years respectively. 1 K1 is uneducated;

medium sized, dark complexioned and healthy. She has left

husbands twice in.the past. She has not heard any religious

discourses,

On the night of occurrence, she was sleeping in ·the

house of her husband when one o:t the accused 1SK 1 called her

husband und said ·that Kotwar of 1 Muhalla 1 was calling him·

immediately. Under this pretext,· they brought he·r husband

from the house at a distance from the 1 i3asti 1 • Her husband

was 1 ghe.caoc'd 1 ilnd she was forcibly tal<en away to a lonely

pl0ce Hhereupon she Has raped one after the o·ther. The

of 'ence tvas registered at Police citation Ganj. On investi-

gation of ~he case, it was found to be a true case. The

accllsed tvere challaned in the court of latv and sentenced to

two years 1 rigorous imprisonment. Pach.

':Che above is a c0se of sex crime due to buse animal

cesire. .9.lch accused are ruffians anci men of no means. They

have no fixed vocations in life. They have little attachment

to their families, They are knovm pick 1JOCkets und ar8 of·ten

movin'} from place to ·>lace for plying their trade, They all

are uneducat"cd. They all are previous convicts of theft

cases. All of them are suffering from v. :o. C_I1hrel~ of them are

married but have little attachment for their tvives or children.

They all are given to drinking. I'hey have had innumerable sex

experiences mostly with prostitutes and cheap women. They

have no s+cake in society. They do not care for any bad name

for rape act. They do not feel sorry for "SUCh a behaviour

as ·they claim, they had often been enjoying tli.e company of

:1 7 0 ~'I,

.the woman concerned. Lately however, she had been avoiding

them with a view ·to livi!lg a devoted life with her new hus­

band. Once a v1oman has fallen from Virtue, her· former patrons

ulways consider her to be a readily available commodity for

all _times.

CASE STUDY N0.6

'I' aged nine years was raped by one 'M' aged twenty

t>-ro years of the same village. The accused is um,ducated. He

is a farmer by profession. He belongs to a poor family and

ha::; tv1o brothers and two sisters. All ot them are married.

At ·this time of o.:fence, he, the youngest in the family was

not man·ied as his parents vlere not able to pay 'che bride-

price anc; stand the expenditure ot the marriage feast. Being

nut able to marr.!, he was given to visi·ting village prostitutes.

He visited them in a nearby village occasionally and paid

R.,·.two or so for each visit. He had not committed any crime

previously.

On the day of the incident the accused found the girl

alone in the adjacent house. He rap•ed her. On her r·.'eoort the

case was registered at Police Station Dharsiwa. On investi-

gation it was found to be a true case. Medical evidence was

suf:'icient. The case v1as challaned in th,, court of law and

the accused wcs sentenc<~u to tive yPars' rigorous imprisonment.

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on retrospection, the accused seems, sor;rj tor the act.

He had commit·ted rape on a virgin in the belief that this . t .

could cure his veneral disease which he contaced from a loose

'.-loman of <.he village, The incident now forgotten by people

has not aftected the man's reputation in the village. After

relnase trom jail, he came back to village in 1969, married

and hces by now three children, His wife kno\JS the above inci-

dent and his past life. According to him, he is leading a

happy married life.

· Ci\SE STUDY NO, 7

1 G1 aged twenty five was raped by one 'V' resident of

place not knoHn. The incident took place near railway line

by ·the side of ~ Raipur city. As per statement of

the girl she had gone to see a picture in the second show alone

in Raj Kamal Talkies. At the end of the show the culprit took

her forcibly in a 'rickshaw' to a lonely olace by the side of'

Raj a Talab near the railway line.

The girl gave a detailed description of the sex act whicr

-...,omen elsewhec-e _generally cio not give out of shame. She went

to '~he extent of describing how the culprit strretched her legs

~nd forcibly tri~d to insert his urinary orgaon into her urinary

organ and when it could not enter in, he applied saliva to his

organ, 'G' though black in colour has an attractive appearance.

She is uneducated. She is V<!ry much fond of pictures. She

some times drinks. She lost her p~rents in early childhood and

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was later brought up by her mcither1 s sister. Sbe has never. beeh

to school. At the age of sixteen, she was married but soon she~

left her husband as she did not like him.

The husband of her mother's sister was a sweeper by

occupation. They had a one-room hut in Purani Basti. There

was no other child in the house except her since her guardian

bore no children. According to her, she be>came conscious of

sex quite early in life as she had on so many occasions seen

her guardian indulging in it. The husband of her mother's

sister used to drink daily and in drunkness he did not mind

doing any thing. I.E in between if she happened to open her

eyes, her 'mausi 1 would rebuke her and ask her to sleep with

face to the wall. But she got curious and would love to see

everything. This kindled desire in her. And at the age of

t•tJelve, she had her sex experience Hith a sweeper boy behind

the 'nalla' where she had gone for answering call of nature.

The report of the incident having been made, the case

was registered at Police Station Kotwali. On investigation it

1o1as found that the girl was of loose character. Dis-satisfied

hrith her married life, she had left her husband and taken to

street walking for pleasure and profit. ImmC>diacely a::ter her

marriage, she found that her husband's sex u~ges lasted very

li :tle whereas she had enjoyed long >vith ·h=r previous contacts.

He was too hurried and too quick in the sexual act to be sdtis­

::ying for her. She had reported the offence after the act

when the culprit had not paid her the bargained amount and had

not even reached her to h<:>r place and ran away. The ace::used

could no·t be traced by the police anel his whereabputs remained. -.'"

unknown and as such he could not be interrogated for the preserit

work.

No respec·table girl would visit: a cinema hall alone in

th~-, second show which is over at midnight. The above is a

typical case o E street walking which a number of girls do both

for pleasure and profit. The customers put them in the cinema

house after having bought them the tickets anci. at the end of

the shmv, take them to some lonely spot. Lack of proper guar-

dianship and opportunity to see sex '"hen she was very young

seems to be responsible for 'G' s free se;{ morals. The multiple

sex exp<eriences she had made her make invidious comparisons and

ruined her marital life.

ChSE S'rUDY N0.8

One '~,, aged thirty years, resident o E Amapara, Ril.ipur

was raped by one 'N' Sindhi of Khopapara. The inci~ent took

plc.1ce in the house of the accused. The accused is aged thirty

years and the woman is twenty five years. She is short sized

and is healthy and has a clean complsxion. Th•~ a-:::cused plies

his trade as a pedlar in the Gol Bazar. He makes about rupees

ten per day o He m~grated from Sind to Rainur in 1947 . . He is

a married man and has three children. The above incident has

v~ry f1l!Ch adversely aHected his name in h.is comnl.lnity. Accor-

ding to him, his comf1llnity people will not fonive him for

years together and he will find it difficult to get a match

for his children when they grew up as they will be known as the

chiJ.dren of a characterless father. He fe<~ls 'sorw and re-..~ '

pentant for his shameless act. 'F' is a labour woman who

s·tands daily at Golebazar and goes along with others for

daily labour for building work, casual labour, etc. There iE

a fixed place at Golebazar where men and wdmen stand to be

engaged to be ·::aken away as labourers. &:>me women apparent"ly

stand for Jabour bu~ actually they sell their flesh. The

accused vJaS allegGd to have taken her to his house under the

pretext of getting his house cleaned but· ins·tead raped her.

He never had any extra-marital affairs earlier. His wife had

gone to her parent:s at Baroda and to:ilcen the children also along.

He felt ·that this \·las the correct timP to hG.ve a spree and so

-took 1 F • home. 'F' is uneducated. She is fond o£ drinl<:s and

good clothes. Her husband is a drunkard and a weaklin0. Though

married for the:> last fifteen years, she had borne no children.

He is a ·~anja' -addict and after years of this addiction, is

now a physL~al vJreck.

She having reported the matter at Police Station Kotwali

an of'ence \'las registered at Crime No,460/376 IPC, On investi-

gation, it was found to be a case of consent in D'oturn for

some money. The woman had reported the case as she h::!-.:1 not

been Daid the full amount as bargainPd, The above is a common

case, Such cases are often reporced by women of loose chara-

cter for obvious reG.sons.

'F' is not concerned about her repu::ation. She has to mak::

money like this for hr.:r livel chood since her husband who is a

casual labourer hardly gives her any money. Whatever he earns.

he spends on smoking . 1 ganj a 1 ••

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CASE STUDY NO.9

'C.B' agcod twenty:Eive years residen·t of Jodha para

Dhamtari was raped by two Scrdars. 'CB' is illiterate. She

is tall and hefty, is dark complexioned and dresses herself

neatly. She is fond of films. Her husband is a drunkard

'"nd also goes to other women. The girl was twenty years of

age and the accused Sikhs 1 GS' und 'KS' were aged thirty five

and forty years respectively. On the evenin::; of occurrence

vlhen the woman was returning from work one Sl.rdar forcibly

took her from behind to motor garage where the other Sardar

was ulso waiting. The sardar forcibly thre1v her on ground and

tried to insert forcibly his urinary organ into her urinary

or9an and when he could not succeed in doing so, he tried to

in ·cert his organ in her anus_~ the pain of 1r1hich she could not

bear and so cried bitterly and loudly. There upon oth2 r

people came to the spot £or h!"r c scue. On neoori: having been

made, the offence 1r1as regis·tered at Police Station Dhamtari

and the case was challaned. The case :tailc'd in the court as

the court found it to be not a case of rape but considered it

to be a case o:t ::onsent in lieu of money rec"ived u.nd that r.oport

had been made because the accused was causing her physical pain

during the act. The ac::usf>d are truck drivers. They origi­

nally belonged to diso:rict Amritsar in Punjab 1·1hec' they had

their tamilies. Due to the natut:-e of their job, they move all

over India and obviously look for sex-satis'"ac:tion with cheap

money. Since they arr:) moving always ~rom olace to place, they

have no social reput:.tion ate any ;>~rticular place. l'heir

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present whereabouts being not known, they could not be inter-

roguted for ·the present work.

'CB' mukros her living by making 'bidis'. Her husband

hardly gives her any tl1ing for clothes or food. He is a

drunkurd and a dc,bauch. Whatever he earns, he spends a\vay

on wini! and wom<en. He makes no secret o:E his connection with

other womt::n. •cr-;' fes:ls justified in leading a free life be-

cause in ·this she not only gets easy.money but also enjoys

varied experiences in an advantugeous manner. Her husband

enjoys and gives money; she enjoys and gets money. She urgues

Hhy should she not do it; when her husbund does it. Obviously,

this s•2ems ·to be case of taking rrevenge on her husband.

O~SE STUDY l-JO.lO

1 R.K 1 Hindu aged twenty tvJo an.J a ma-c.riculate H::___ls rc.p~d

by one 'H.J' Mohammedart aged twenty five 1·Iith the activo help

of 'K.IC' daughter ot 'U' serving as a nurse at Saraipalli

. Dispensary.

The incident took place during noon ~t Saraiualli in

the quarter of 'K.K'. The victim 'R.K' had re·ceived training

along >-Jith 'K.K' as a nurse at D.K.Hospital, Rlic;ur. wring

holidays she had come to see her :::riend at Sarui:1al~ i. on

the date of ofEence, the culprit uho <;a:-• ·the brothPr--in-low

of th" locC<l .P.anger wus ::lso tound .o.t tho house ot 'K.K'. They

h-.:.d mr:,uls tog·2the_r. :...c'--~r t'J1<s 'h y I' ~ 1 i i ,.,_,_,_ •. , ~ e ·.e.~ seep ng none

ro:.>m and 'K.K' cJ.os· d the room ::rom all the sides an:J · _ a-:: :usea

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closed ·the door from inside and raped her. The report having

been made an offence was registered at Police Station Sarai­

palli. On investigation the case was challaned in the court·

of law against accused 1 MJ 1 and against abettor 1 ~c•. Both

the accused were convicted, 1 ~1T 1 got four years rigorous·

imprisonment and 1 KK' one year rigorous imp-risonment. On en-

~~iry it was found that 1 KI<' was given to perversions and'

h 1 d h f ' th t When 'R.I<' was s e ove to see ot ers per ormJ.ng e sex ac •

being raped, she was wa·lching from a hole. 1 KIC 1 had known of

this perversion from some hot novels but, had had never earlier

an occusion to see it in actuality. With 1 RK 1 s coming and

1 HJ 1 s presence, she materialised her dream.

'JVD' is a matriculate and a bachelor young man. Being

the only brother of a sister whose husband was posted as a

Ranger, he had received a lot of freedom at Saraipalli where .

he had come in search of a job,

The above is a strange case in which a girl helped in

raping of the other girl, Truth is said to be stranger than

fiction. The author is aware of a case in which the wife

helped her l:)usband to rape· a young girl in her 0\vn presence

because she was carrying and wanted to avoid physical trouble

to herself, This hapDened in Police Station Chunderi of

district Gma where the author was the Slperintendent of Police

CASE SWDY NO,ll

'R' aged about sixteen years caste Raut resident of

vill~ge Kanker was raped by 1UB' constable of PS Kotwali.

The incident took place in the night between 1.00 to

2.00 A.M. The constable who was on patrolling duty saw the

girl standing alone at the motor stand. She had come alone

from Kcinker. Under the pretext of taking her to Kotv1ali for

interrogation, he took her to the lady-talab. On the way he

raped her in a lonely 'Maidan'. The matter was reported and

offence v1as registered at Police Station Kotwali. The accu­

sed was challaned but the girl having changed'her statement,

the constable was a::!quitted. The girl had been won over either'

due to threats or lure. The Constable denies having committed

the act but he is obviously telling a lie. He is a person

hailing from district Partabgarh in U.P. The incident has

given him a bad name in the department and the fact of his

being involved in a rape case finds place in his service records.

The above case is a very poor reflection on the conduct

of the police force. ·Such cases often take place and bring a

bad name to the force. Somehow the constable ac·.cused won over

the lvitnesses and the complainant and got the case acquitted.

The author is aware of a case which happened in Police Station

Mahasamund. There was a woman under trj_al who vras alleged to

have a~•cempted to kill hr>r husband. The constable -,;ho was on

sentry duty at the 1 H3.1valat' raped the l>oman insicie. The other

ctccused who '"ere in the at:j<J.cent 1 h<J.~-o•alat 1 hc>cri.n'} some whispers

suggestive" ot sex raised a cry. The offf>nce \vas registered and

che cons•-.able was challaned. The case :.,ilcd in the court of

law. Thereaf~er departmental proceedings were drawn against

constable. These could not make progr·•ss as the woman was

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and inspite of the best efforts of the police to search her,

she could not be contacted.

In view of the above, it is necessary that there

should be more women police in the police force, so that

the women pris~ners and under trials could well be guarded,

so as to avoid incidents of the above type. Even in big

districts as Paipur of thirty two Police stations, there are

only five \vomen police and all of them are posted in the

headquarters in the Reserve Lines, They are rrostly used

at headquarters, and sent out only on requisition from out­

side police stations which takes a long time to come and

longer time is further required to comply \-Jith these. There

is one thing more to be seen with regard to women police.

Host of the women police are recruited on compassionate

grounds, being either the widows of police men or the

dependants of the deceased staff, Consequently, their

qualifications or fitness for the post of women constables

is not seen. Obyiously the standard of women-police suffers.

CI\.SE STUDY NO, 12

•c• Telugu and wife of 'N' was raped by the 'L' of

twenty eight years with the active assistance of 'B' wife

of 'J' resident of Bhanpara. 1 C' is the fifth daughter of a

South Indian washerman. She has three brothers. All except

one are married. She is aged sixteen. Her father being old

does not get much work. The brother earns little and lives

separately and gives nothing to the father.

The incident happened at about 10 P.M.in the night.It

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\voman was coming from cinema on foot, two men follovJed her

dnd forcibly put hElr in a 1 riksha 1 and took hr'r to the house

of th<: main accused. There they tried to rape her. They

drank liquor and wu.nted to rape her and \vhen they rould not

do the act by forcing her, they bit her cheeks with teeth and

even causced burns on her breasts with a hot iron rod. Conse

quently she fell unconscious.

The rr:lport having been made a case \•Jas registered at

Police Station Glnj and both accused were challaned and

convic·t,,d. '.rhe third accused could not be known.

Th'" accused 1 L 1 is a healthy and well-to-do milk man.

He h<-Js nev\~~r been to school. He is fond of good clothes and

drinks. A9ed abou"c thirty, he has not marriea but has fallen

in love \vith a number of Homen, each of 1:Jhom in turn u.fter

having depriv•'d him of a few hundred rupc,es hu::; j iltccd and

left him. He has therefore. developed sadistic ·tendencies

and consicers every women to be wic:i<:e5 who must be chastised.

He some times also suspects his comuarativ'' virility as to ~ -

\•'hy women leave him. And so each tim= vlith a dif.c·.'·rent vroman

he attempts to exhibit his potency.

'rhe o·ther co-accuso'ld woman 1 3 1 in 'tchoce house the

crime took place is an ex-prostitute. H'lving gone old a.nd

unable to c-:>ractise the profession herself, she> lives on th··

·~arnj.ngs of young girls •1hom shQ en;:ices in hc,r house for

nrostitution c'nd tak'S the commission.

The above is a cuse o~ stre<=t v!dlkin] Homan \·:ho hal

willfully accompani-=u the accused. In the ·-irst. ;JL .:e, no ..

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respectable girl will visit a picture house in the night

alone. Secondly it can not be understood how in busy places

like cinema houses where so many people are around, now can

one threaten a girl to get in a 1 ricksha 1 against her will.

The offence was reported probably because the woman could not

satisfy and bear the perverted sex desires of her customers,

OBSERVATIONS

During the period of ten years i.e. 1960 to 1970 there

were in all one hundred sixty nine cases of rape. This figure

does not really represent the situation and the quantum of

rape-crime. l'lany more rape cases really take place than what

comes to the notice of the police. Se:xual intercourse with

a minor girl with or without her consent, if she is below

sixteen years is also rape. A husband also commits rape on

his wife if she is below fifteen years of age. Such sexual

assaults on wcmen take place frequently in Raipur and else­

where in Chhatisgarh. Two conditions facilitate the commission

of rape cases. Firstly,there is the poverty of the people.

When a se:xually aggressive man sees a seductive woman in lonely

surroundings, he lures or forces her into a sexual union. &lch a

sexual union which takes place between a man and wor.1an general!~

is not of woman's free will.But the woman by her ci~stances

virtually forced into it because if she were not to oblige the

man in question who might be her employer either on the field.o:

in the Rice Mill or in the Shop or in GJvt. or Semi-GJvemmental

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work or in the house hold, she might lose her employment ,, . '

which dUe to her poverty she cam not a·fford to lose. There

are ~~~any unreported cases where the land owner who employs

labour on the field also indulges in sex relations with

the woman labourer as per <Dppertunity either in the field

or in the Godowns where grain stock is kept or at any other

convenient place. The mill owners and their managers are

also known to enjoy sex liberties with the woman-workers

while they work in the mills. The mates, time keepers and

overseers of PWD both in the Buildings and Roads and Irri-

gation are also known to be have sex affairs with the em­

ployees at work site or at other convenient places of whieh

there is no dearth. In return of sex, these employers give

concessions to women overlooking their faults just as coming

late for work, leaving early from work, doing work lazily,

etc. More often than not, the employers also pay some thing

in kind or cash to the woman labourer to ensure her silence

and also that she continues to oblige in future. such laisions

though not reported to the police are in fact rape cases as

the consent of women is obtained by putting women in fear or

lure. All these are rape cases though the legal machinery:

cannot take cognizance of it as these cases are not reported

by the women concerned. The second factor which facilitates

the rape case is the ava:llability of the women outside uheir • .. .

houses and their proximity to the men. As stated earlier•

very few women in the lower classes in Ra.ipur district keep

inside homes busying theaselves only in bouse-hold chores.

They work with the -n side by side and 11ake the•selves

YUlnerable fer sex assaults by me.

The second observation we have,,..to ma:ke about rape . . '

oases in Raipur district is tjqe fact that rape cases ·falsify ,.

the notion that lQcal men have weak sex desire. Rape case

is committed by a man who qeaerally has an excess of sex

desire and is n~t able to control himself. Therefore the

rape cases which have been committed by local people show

that they too have a strong animal sex desire. As we have

elsewhere seen, the involvement of outsiders in sex offenceas

is not much.

" The following instances of multiple sex assaults over

helpless women further show the limits of brutal and sensaal

animalism to which the local men of aaipur can also go_ to

satisfy their sex urge •. This also disproves the mischievous

propaganda that women here are over-sexed and available for

the asking. Were it so. why should there have been these

incidents:-

1. crime No.252/1963 u/s 376 1 366 IFC of P.s.Ganj.

On 9-4-1963 at 1015 P.M. a woman aged twenty five years

while she was goiag along with her husband to her home from

the Cinema House six !)ersons got hold of l:ler and took her and "~r

husband in the loaely '.aidan' behind the Central Jail. Five·

of the accused persons ·each tille got hold of her wsband wlaile

the sixth one f&rcibly raped her amidst her cries and shreiks

right in the presence of her bllsband. liar clothes were ton

into shreds and at the end of the bRtal rape by six persons

she was left une0nsciousJ absolllltely naked~ blee:dil!lg from

her private parts and with several injuries aad scratches

all over ner b0dy particularly tne cheeks, the breasts and

the buttocks. Inspite of all efforts of the accused and

the tactics of the defence ·lawyer the case was fully proved

in the Court of Law and all the accused were sentenced to

two years' rigorous imprisonment.

2. Crime No.192/193/1963_ U/s 376 IPC of PS Basna.

On 28-9-1963 at about 2 P.M. two girls aged sixteen

and nineteen respectively were got hold of by two accused

persons aged 30 and 35 respectively. The girls were re­

turning rrom the field. The accused persons forcibly.drag

them to the nearby 1Nala 1 and taking off their saris they

tied their hands and put cloth in their mouths so that they

were not able to cry and forcibly committed rape on them.

Unfortunately because of lack of witnesses and contradictions

in the statements of the girls in the face of a_ harassin(jJ

cross examination in the Court of Law the case ended ill the

acquittal and the accused were set free.

3o Cr~ No.13,/1964 U/s 376 IPC of PS Mahasamnnd.

On 28-6-1964 at 10 A.M. a woman while she was returnin9

from the village pond was fercibly taken to a lonely 1 Nala'

and2ped forcibly one after the other by two persons aged

twenty four and twenty fiYe respectively._ Tlaey tltreateaeq

the woman with a 1 !ars&w• and kept the weapoa by the side

while cOIIIlldtting forcible intercourse on her. TJafortunately

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on accaunt af contradic '_tions in the statements of th!i! woman

in the face of defence lawyer's tactics and due to the abseD<;~: ·

of witnesses, the case ended in acquittal.

4. Crime No.210/1965 U/s 3761 324 IPC of P.S.Bhatapara.

On 20-10-1965 at about 7.30 P.M. a girl aged sixteen

years was raped by fcour persons. The girl who was returning

from a Matinee-Show was waylaid in a lonely hcouse where behind

the closed door and by showiag Rampuri knife each of the

accused committed rape on her one after the other. Here too

the case failed in the Court of Law and the accused were

acquitted due to the lack of sufficient evidence and the

failure of the woman to give cogent and correct statement

in the face of the defence lawyer's harassing tactics.

5. Crime No. 76/1966 U/s 376 IPC of PS Ganj.

On 24-2-1~66 at night a girl aged 12 years only was raped

by four persons named 'R','J','L' and 'D' aged twenty four,

twenty four, twenty three and seventeen respectively. The

girl being so young could not be a willing party to a sex

affair. She was _lured in a lonely house and raped. At the

end of the incident she was found bleeding and unconscious.

Here too the case ended in the acquittal from the Court of

Law as fool proof evidence could not be put up before the

Court to prove guilt of the accused.

6. Crime No.BS/1967 U/s 376 IPC of PS Dhaatari.

On 26-4-1967 at 2 A.M. in the night a wOIIIln while was

sleeping alone in her house. Her l:usband had gone to another

village. She was .raped by four persons. These four perS~ons

effected entry into her house by jumping over the wall and

then forcibly got hold of her and shut her mouth with cloth

and tied her hands with 'gamchha 1 and forcibly committed

rape on her. Early in the morning the neighbours discovered

that she was bleeding and lying unconscious in her room. Her

too the case ended in the acquittal as it was learnt that She

was threatened to give a damaging statement in the Court of

Law and the doctor too in his examination could not give a

clear statement and so the court could not be satisfied aboat

the guilt of the accused.

7. Crime No.75/1967 U/s 376,366,511 IPC of PS Baloda Bazar

On 23-8-1967, one girl who had come from Raipur to go

to her village was waylaid by four persons from the 1Dharmshala 1

where she was staying to go to her village. Four persons aged

40, 34, 25 and 25 respectively forcibly took her to a lonely

field, took otf her clothes and showing her a knife, forcibly

raped her. The case was a very brutal one and in the morning

the girl was lying unconscious in the field with clothes torn

and body nude and scratched. In the Court of Law all the

accused were sentenced to five years• rigorous imprisonment each.

8o Crime No.2/1968 U/s 376 IPC of PS Arang.

On 17-1-1968, at about six P.M. a girl aged 13 years

while she was going for call of nature in the 'Maidan' was

waylaid by two persons aged 16 and 17 years respectively.

She was torcibly tlung on the ground and a piece of cloth

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put in her mouth lest she cried and both ef the accused

forcibly committed rape on her. In the Court of Law both

the accused persons were only fined Rs.12m/- each and in

·default to go for three months rigorous imprisonment.

9. Crime No.787/1968 u;s 376 1 366, J42 and 304 IPC of PS Ganj,

On 3-11-1968 at about 11 in the night a girl aged

19 years was raped by three persons aged 30, 20 and 25 res­

pectively. The girl when she had come out rrom her house

for urination, the accused persons who were standing nearby

got hold or her forcibly and carried her towards a dark

place by the side of the Tank and forcibly committed rape

on her. From the Court of Law all the accused were sentenced

to rigorous imprisonment for four years each.

10. Crime No.827/1968 U/s 3761 342 IPC of PS Ganj.

On 2-11-1968 at 8 P.M. a girl aged 18 years was forcibly

raped by five persons aged 35, 32, 30 1 28 and 25 years respe­

ctively. The girl while she was returning trom the second

show was forcibly taken in a 'rickshaw' and taken towards the

Ara:ng Road and on the pond near Shukha Nala she was forcibly

raped by all the five accused persons named above. She had

injuries all over her body. All the accused were convicted

t rom the Court of Law and were sentenced to four years rigo­

rous imprisonment each.

11. Crime NC4 90/69 U/s 376, 366 IPC of PS Pithora.

On 10-11-1969 a girl aged 16 years was raped by three

persons aged 36, 36 and 35 years respectively. She had gone

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to the village Pond in the noon time for bathing •. She was.

alon~: there at that time when all these accused dragged her

under the tree and committed rape upon her one after the

other. Unfortunately in the Court ef Law all the accused

were acquitted as the Court was not satisfied with tpe evi­

dence put up by the prosecution.

12. Crime No.31/1970 U/s 376, 354 and 342 of IPC of

PS Bhatapara.

On 11-2-1970 at about 7.30 P.M. a woman aged forty

years was raped by four persons aged 281 401 25 and 30 years

respectively. The woman was returning at that time from

her work from Rice mill. All the four accused threatened

to murder her if she had attempted to cry and forcibly com­

mit-ted rape on her. From the Court of Law the accused were

acquitted for want of evidence.

13. Crime No.7/1970 u/s 376 1 354 and 511 IPC of PS Kotwali.

On 3-1-1970 at about 8 P.M. a girl aged 20 years was

raped by three persons aged 301 28 and 24 years. While she

was returning from the market the accused persons forcibly

took her in a 'Rickshaw' to their own house and behind the

c1osed doors forcibly committed rape on her.

14o Crime No.41/1969 u/s 376 IPC of PS Abhanpur.

On 23-3-1969 one girl aged 23 years was raped by a per­

son aged 27 years. The accused forcibly fell upon her ia a

lonely field where she was working and raped her. The woman

was in advanced stage of pregnancy of seven 1110nths. The

accused was unfortunately acquitted frn~~~ the Caa.rt of' r....v_

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15. Crime No. 23/1963 U/s 376 IPC of P.s. Ga.riaband:

A woman aged twenty five who was sitting alone in her

house during noon time while the rest of the members of the

house had gone out to the field was raped by a young man

aged thirty. ~Ie approached her from behind and putting

cloth in her mouth, he forcibly raped her. She was running

the sixth month of her pregnancy. The accused was sentenced

only to three years rigorous imprisonment.

Thirdly, rape case under study falsify the mislead-

ing propaganda about the over-sexiness of the local women.

We have come across not even a single case in which a woman.

or a number of women together inspite of all their liberty

have forced a man to indulge in a sex union.

Fourthly, we notice generally that there are a few

ce.ses of perversions during rape cases. The instance in

case study No. 12 where the woman was burnt with an iron

rod is a rare one in the area. No rapist compelled a woman

for "fellatio" or in any other way forced her to satisfy

the sex of the aggressor in an usual manner.

Fifthly, as elsewhere we do not rule out the psssi-

bility of consent between women and man. Many rape case

were reported only when it was seen by a third person as we

see in Case Study Nos. 3, 4, 7, 8 & 9. In a rape case. a

* In our note on "Difficulties In Investigation & Prosecut­ion of sex offences" we have mentioned 17 such cases of consent.

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mature qirl more often tnan aet gets ::> pleaSllre not unmixed

with fear while being raped, the same as felt by an adven­

t:'lllrer who is going em a perilous journey. But she doe not

admit before the society tbat she eaja.yed rape because the

society does not think well of an illicit sex act. There­

fore during intercourse, even if she has submitted herself

to the rapist of her QW!il free will, she does BGt admit it

and claims that· she was victimised and that the entire act

was loatnesome to her. Du.e to this reasen, many eases fail

in the ca>urts as the learned jllldges fi:mqing no signs 0f

resistance c:>r struggle or breaking of bangles, the versien

of the girl not convincing and circumstances not corr91arat­

ing discern the element of consent and acquit the accused.

The fo11ewing extracts from judgements of cases under

study will be p~tinent to the point:-

"It appears that woman was a consenting party. There

are no signs of st~ggle. She appears to have offered. no

resistance t& her assault. •

"There are no injuries on the person and private parts

of the prosecutrix. Obviously, she was not taken fercibly

by accused but voluntarily accompanied thea for enjoying

sex. When she was caught by the vi11a.ger.s indulging :La

sexual enjeyuaent with the acC'lsed, then eut of sl\a~M40 she

might have thought it fit to give out that she was foxcibly

taken by the acC\tsed. •

•The presecutrix Jia had been forced to lodqe

the complaint and the report under the lllressure of her has-

band and the village society to hide her own shame a ad t.e

cover up her own unchastity, by taking up later, a pious

and innocent stand to the chagrin of her own co~scienceow

"URder ordinary circumstances, it is not p&ssible

for a single man to l:!Qld sexual interce>urse with a healthy !

adult female in full pe~ssession of her senses against her

will, unless she is taken lllnawares, thrown aecidentally

on the ground and placed in such a position as to render

her completely helpless or ualess she swoons away from

fright or exhaustion after long resistance. She kept quiet

is very significant. that shows that after a half hearted

resistance, she allowed him to act in the way he did. Secret

worldng of her mind does not render the act to be against her

willo•

Sixthly, in aaipur society a rape case,does not

entirely doom a woman's career and bring uJ;JOn her and her

family a stigma as elsewhere. It Bllrely here too puts the

man and woman in a bad way but the incident is soon fergottea

and no peDaanent stains remain.

Seventhy, ia aone of the rape cases of our stlldy, a 1

rapist co.Utted rape to show aad pxoTe his •nline .. in

torcibly copulating with a voaan agaiast her desire. lfor ,u4' we come aaxoss a rap-Ticti• priding herself over her bea11ty

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and sex-appeal that a p·erson under went the risk of being ,

physically beaten and sent to jail but still ravished her.

Rightly, we have also not come across a single inci·

dent of a woman complaining of rape because the accused did

not make the sexual advances to please her or respond to

her sehual advances.

Ninthly, \ve have not come across any case of rape on

an insane "'oman or one who is physically helpless due to

disease or deformity to understand or object to a sex-act.

Tenthly, in rape cases that took place in Raipur

district, no rape has been followed by an accident. Convuls-

ions, epileptic fits and mental derangeillents have been known ..

to follow rape. Death can also occur as a re&"Ult of shock

due to fright or mental emotion or due to excessive bleed-

ing or injur:Les getting septic infection after several days.

Some times death occurs from suffocation caused by covering

the mouth and nostrils or by thrusting a piece o£ cloth down. 1

the throat to prevent the female from crying for help.

Eleventhly, in our study we have not come across

even a single case of rape on a dead body (necrophilia).

Twelfthly, there has not been any case of rape on a

woman during catalepsy, syncope, epileptic coma or mes­

meric or hypnotic trance or during unconsciousness prodUced

by the administx:ation or narcotic or intoxicnting or anae­

sthetic drugs. Sometimes rapists administer opium, dhatura, 1. Modi J.P. -fA Text Book of Medical, Juris?IUdence and

zoxicology•. N.M. 'l'ripathi, :3ombay, 1957-p.316

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chleral nydrate aad other saclt dru.gs to wemen to render tlt.

•ncomscious so as to facilitate the act. But no sach case

has come to our notice in our study.

Thirtee:athly, in our study, we have not come ac:ooss

any case of rape by misrepresentatiom ef facts for exall!lple

doctor nping under the pretext of starting suppressed men­

stru.atie>m or a MSadllllll" or a quack curing imfertility •

.Fourtenthly, in o111r study we have mot come acl:l9ss

repeaters of rape crimes. Tlllllls we may coacl111.de that rapes

by men of our study have been committed accidentally as a

matter ef IIIGiment under the impulse of a stmng sex-desire

facilitated by lonely sar:rlllundings and that there are iae ' J

sex-maniacs in Raipur District.

(C) MOLES~TIQN:

CASE S'l'UDY NO. 1

•c• aged about twenty years was crimiaally assaulted

by one 'B', resident of Athari, PS Ganj aged twenty five

years. The iacident took place in the evening when the girl

was retumim.g to the village after working iD the city. 'lhe

accused approached her from belU.ad at a lelilely place aad

• tried to throw her down ea the gxo1tad with a Yiew to co.U.i:t-

ing a rape on her. But Sllddenly some peeple seemed to be

comillg ftom behind and started sbouting as to what he was

doiaq. TAere 'llpea the girl al110 started e:eyinq tbat aile was

beiag •lested.

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, '!'he report bavinq beem made a:n offence was registe*

at ~lice station Ganj and taken iato imvestiqation. '!'here

was the evidence of two persoms who had seen the man tryin<]1

to throw dawn the girl. Accordingly the cmallan was putt up

in the court of law amd the acCl:lsed was convicted to a fine

of Rs. fourty only.

Both the accused and victimWt.Jre illit"rate people, beth

belGI'lg to the same village near Raipur City. Both used to

come to Raipttr for daily e111ployment. Both were married to

different persons. Both were on friendly terms and always

used to laugh and chit-chat while coming to and from the

village. In fact both had developed a liking for each other.

•c• had a very bad sex life' at home. She was married for the

last five years but with her husband she bad not eajoyed sex

even once. '!'hey had been married as children. Years after

when they attaineci puberty, 'gauna' was perfoz:med. She had

grown to be tall,., broad and healthy. Bat her husband bad a

stunted gmwth. He was skinny and thin. On the other hand,

the accused too had also an ••happy marital life. His wife

was sickly and suffered always from some sort of stomach paia.

Being always under plil.ysical stmiD1 she took no interest in

sex and particularly did not all.Qw Rer husbaad to touch her

breasts as she considered breasts for cldldrea te Slick lllilk

and not for taen to twist and twich for -joyaent. '!'he real

story wat that oR the day of accumnce the acCilsed wanted t:a

have sex with her consent while on way back \0 t'ke Yillage

behind a thick hedge. It is unfortu"aate that they were seen

by some people coming from behind and girl too gave a cry for •

molestation.

The chancesof sex crimes are lllG>re frequent in a society

where .. woman come out of the lwuse to eam a living and thereby

come in greater contact with members of the opposite sex. Ill

Cl:lhatisgarh,· leaving a side the higher collUIIII.nities like -

Brahmins, Thakurs and Karmis, in the other comrmmities women

come out ef the houses every <!lay to do oome work which brings

some rooney. This worl: might be selling vegetables, washing

utensils and doing Sblndry jobs in hotels and house,.- holds,

working as labourers at builcHng consttuction sites, PWD road

constxuctions, canal works at dam sites, etc. In fact, there

is hardly a woman arong lower communities who can say that her

occupation in life is house-hold work only. Because of this,

woman in Chhatisgarh comes in close contact with the man and

gets ample opportunity of being a party to an extxa-material

affair... Ill fact, her economic independence makes her bold

and if the lmsband ia any way tries to object to her indepen­

dent ways she can always leave him and keep another aan. lie

Sllxprise, woman in Chbatisgarh is referred te as 'adai. 1 • In

fact when a woman leaves her lmsband, the loss is of the

basband. He will haTe again to pay :tor another wo~~~an. Ia the

mean while, ae also loses ia her an eaming melllber ef fa.aily.

f I t , ·-·

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CASE SNJ!.IY 1110, 2

1 T1 aqeli thirty years was erimiRally assaulted :by 's•

aged thirty years and 'SP' aged thirty ene years.

The incident to0k ~lace in her village Kotholi during

the night. The accused belenged to Nawapara. The accased

having censnmed liqt1or entered ill. the house of the camplainant

where the woman was sleeping with her little child. The

accused •s• immediately put his hal!lds om the breasts of the

woman and another acC1ilsed caught oold of' her hands. At this

she immediately woke up from sleep and raised a cry. Mem coll-

acted frem the neighbourhood and gave beating to the accused

and sent him to the Police Stati()n with the village Kotwar.

The accused are uneducated villagers who are agriculturists by

occupation. The woman is an ordinary village woman without

any sex-appeal. She is black in complexion with pock marks en

her face a11d is rather tall for an average female. ' .

The report havimg been made at Police station Raj !Ill,

an offence was registered and taken into investigation. There

being snfficient evitienee of the people who had seen her Jae­

ing physically assaulted, the case was challan.ed and the

accused were sentenced to three a10nths' rig-orous illlprisoruaeat

~Cho

The above case illustrates how criJIIes are collllldtted

ander the infl•ence of liquor. *• leses Jtia power t.o d.:l.s­

tiagtti.sh wmag fm• tbe right. Both the 4lCCll,aed were •rried

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and eaoh had two and three ehildren re~eotively and they

were leading bappy married lives in their village at Nawa­

pa.ra. '!'hey lla.d come to tllle village for a marriage f1u!lction

where duril'lg the party they l<lad eonSI!!med liqu.or and lost theil!'

senses.

CASE SWBY NO • 3

1P 1 resident of Bajanandgaon aged fifteen years was

criminaliy assaulted by •s• resident of mralllman Para Raipur,

aged thirty eight years.

1 P 1 was tall, thin and well built. She bad good

facial features, though aot a very charming and attractive

face. s:rn.e was a house-wife. Her l:msband .ran a small 'parchlaai

shop in the leaality.

The incident took place in the night at about 11 P.M.

The accused was badly dxunk. He got hold 0£ the band 0£ tl!le

sleeping woman who was lying in the open on the road along

with the members of her family. The accused who was passing

by got hold of her and bit her cu1 the cheek. The accused is

an uneducated •ricksba.wala •. He is given to bad company of

other people who gamble, conSOle 1JU.dak 1 and drink. Beca111.se

of this irrespomsible nat111.re, two women who• he was keepiag

one after tlile other had left ll.ia.

'!'he repert llaving JDeea llll4e at Pellce Statiea Jtot.waU.,

aa effeace was registered. '!'here Deiag •fficieat eYideace,

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the ae0111sed was el\allanelli and aenvieted fmm t'l:l.e court and

sentemeelil to two years' rigorous imprisenment.

The case agaim ill1!strates lww a perseR loses his

sense of right or Wil:lR9 waile '!lnder the imfluemce of liCiJllllor.

CASE S'l'IJI!lY 1110. 4

•v• aged twenty three years resident of Shantimagar

was physically assaulted by two persens named 1PP' and 1 BP 1

aged thirty and thirtyfive years respectively. On the date

of occurance at about 7.00 P.M. while she was coming with her

htlsband from Naharpara '!:G> Shan.tinagar, near Naharapara two

persons f&llowe<il them. One e~f the accused got hol<il of Iter

htlsband and the other one forcibly dragged her to the nearloy

1 Bagieha '• At this, she made a cry where upon the ac011sed

started :r::u.nning blilt were caught.

The repert lilaTing been made at Police station. an

offence was registered. The case was chal].aned and bota the

accused were acqaitted for want of evidence. This case has

obviously an urban touch. SUch cases of gandaism seldon take

place in the villages. The crime record of Raipur district

bears out that such offences take place -re ill Raipu r., Maha­

sallllnd, Dhaatari and Bhatapara. towas than elsewhere. '!'Re

accused of _this ease are kaown to be antisec:ial eleaents ef

the town wbo 'Rad no regard for their repatatioa, er fer tae

rep11tatioa of ethers. aa the iaterJ»gatiea ef tlle acaased it:

is fRnd that t:lley were 1a bad OOIIp&IIJ' siace their c:)lilclheed

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and :had no contn~l over them of their parents. '!'hey lilad not •

married. They lilad loeea to jail for pi<!lk-pocketiag, thieving,

etc. They had no fixed avocation ia life and indulged ia

sundry acts for occasional earming from time to time, working

like labourers 0r a "mistris.·.:" or as gate-keepers im Cinema

houses. They were givem t0 driRkimg. They were fomd of see­

ing pictlllreso In tl!le 1110vies1 scenes l!lf violence and rape·

appealed teD them the mcst.

CASE STUDY NO. 5

'D' aged twenty eight years was criminally assaulted

at 11.00 P.M. in the night while she was returnimg to her

house im Brallmanpara from her friend's bouse ia Cbotapara.

One of the two persons named •n• Sindhi aged thirty years

embraced her forcibly and the other one whose name and address

could not Joe known held her hands. At this time two persons

happened to come on a motor-cycle frcim behind and caught bold

of 'G' and the other one ran away. This incident could have

been avoided if the woman had l>een escorted. Ill the first

place, it is n0t umderstood why the woman should have re-

turned from a friend's hollse so late in the night and that

al50 alene. It was learnt that 1D 1 had ggne to a picture.

After returning at 9. 30 she drepped in at her friend • a place

and fn~m there she was ret•ning after a chat. Her llasl:la.nd

who :had recently been employed in the Bhilai steel PDtj ect

was collling hoiH only occasionally. And .- she -.s liTing

alene and basyia9 herself in 'bldl--king during the clay iJl

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a local 'Karkfta.:na •. A weman • s living alone and t'Ren moving

late in the night 111<1kes lter reputatioa S111spioieus to ]!)lay

with whose modesty~ a 'geomda' will not think twice.

The accused 'G' is a small shll>p keeper. fi:! has read·

only upto Pri~~~ary. He makes an eanaiag of Rs. tweaty to Rs.

thirty wer a day. He is aged thirty, ~~~arried and has three

children. He is givem to occasional drinking in company which

"~ more~less aomprises Gf bad people. He loves to satisfy sex

outside his hl!lme, as his wife is too busy with her ahildren

and houselwld ch0res.

On report having »een made at the Police Station an

offence was registered and the accu.sed was ehallaned. 'l'he

case failed in the co11rt of law as the girl did nGt appear in

the court to give her statememt. It is learnt that the Sindhi

ac011sed whl!l was a man of money gave some amount to the girl to

leave the city for some unknown village and thlls be not a..ai­

lable to the court. This case again has an urban touch. Besi­

des the manner ef aecu,sed to stop the complainant is not un­

common when the accused is a man of money and the girl of peer

circumstances. The author is aware of a score of snch cases in

which the abQve tactics were empl.eyed and the accused escaped

p111.nisbment.

This explains hew a Jmllber ~»f sex-criae cases oet

acquitted. The girls and 'IIOlllell who belong to tlle lliwher

communities and ceaparatively richer comaanities .. ~ .aka •

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reports of such offences for fear of losing social reputation.

on the other hand when the poor make such reports their reports

ha.rdly succeed in bringing the culprit to the book and not only

the culprits employ good lawyers to defend themselves but they

also use all means to win over the witnesses.

CASF!. STUDY NO. 6

1 G1 aged thirty years, resident of Tatya9ara was cri­

minally assaulted by two young students named 'R' and •s• at

Jairam Talkies Raipur at about 6.30 P.H.vlhile she was going

to the picture house._ The accused persons caressed her back

from behind and made indecent remarks. 'G' is a youthful

lady with full breasts and ample bottoms. Though black in

colour, she had a good modulated face. She dresses herself

neat and tidy and takes good care of her hair with suffi-

cient oil and puts the red 'Sindoor' in the parting of her

hair. She is fond of pictures. She has not borne a child as

yet. Her husband to whom whe is married for the last ten

years is working as a bearer at a local hotel and returns

home late in the night. Some times he does not come at all,

whenthere is more of work in the hotel.

The offence was registered at Police station Ganj. On

her report an offence was registered. The acdised were

challaned and were fined RUpees One hundred each.

This case has again an urban touch and illust~:at_es t.he •

attitude of present day students who read cheap novels and

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see sexy pictures. &>th the acCI/lsed belomged to good families ,

and were University students. Their parents were havinq flell­

shing cloth busine·ss. According to them* they were simply

tryii'lg to have some fUm as they had seen in pic'bl res ana read ·

in the movels. The oae effective method of deterring people

from good tamilie~ te desist from such acts collld be to give

wide plilblioity to thE!ir evil deeds. No doubt, pictures and

books depicting sexy sCilenes need aloo to be banned.

CASE STIJDY NO. 7

'G' resident of Bhatapara was criminally assaulted by ;

one 'K' 1 - when she was returning f_rom a picture to her Iwuse in

the night. Two persons on cycle came from behind and showed

her a ten ~pees' note. First of them 1K' hinted to her to

sit on the cross-bar of the cycle so that they could take her

to some place. When she refused 1K 1 dragged her hand1 there­

upo17 she took out her 1ohappal 1 and- started beating the accused.

At this the cl:l!lwd gathered who- gave a thrashing to one af the

accu.sed and took hi111 to the l"cllice station. The other accused

managed to escape.

The report having been made at Police station1 the •

case was registered. 'l'h~ accused were cha.llantl and f:t9il the

court accused 'K' was acqu.itted fCIIr want Qf evidence and the

other accused could not be knoWR. ACO\t sed 1K 1 tan a ~-bidi

shop. He was u--.rried and g-iven to galllbling ·&lid drillking. Hl!l

had attended three prillary classes in hi• child hood. Pmsec~~triX

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was a yeung girl of about t.wenty. Her l!l1ll. sband was a railway

'Khalasi • at :eilaspllr. she wozked as a labou.rer im the Rice

Mill.

Im this connectdon it may be re-mazked that more sex

offences take place in this area, because women move all

alone unescorted and this makes them easy victims. If a sim@le

precaution is taken by women mot to go alone on lonely DOads

ana at odd hGtil.rs, many sex offences could be prevented,

CASE STUDY NO, 8

1B.M1 resident of Amapara, Raipur aged seventeen

years was physically assaulted by one 1 B,C' res~dent of Shani

Bazar, Raipur aged eighteem years at about 11,30 A,M, The

girl was going to the college when the accused who was also

a student and, going to the college on the same road made some

indecent remarks to her and asked her to sit on the carrier

of the cyele. She refused to do so where upon he caressed he~

her cheeks and again asked~to sit on the cycle, She again

refused and she• ted at hi111, At this, he gave a big 1taJIIIIIa.c:ha 1

at laer face whet'e1lpon she fell u.nconscious on the road attract­

ing a large crowd,

'!'he report having been 111ade at Police station, an

offence was registered. ~e accused was c:hallaned and con­

victed f.ro111 the court of law and was sentenced to one _,atlas'

s1~1e imprisoruaent and a fine of Rp.pee Sevea llr:.ndrec!.

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TRe accused was aa irresponsible member of the studen~.

1 .. f il His parents community. He belonged to a we 1-te-ao am Y•

were uneducated and did not JJ.ave any idea as to what their

son was doing. Besides, he was their only son, rather the

only child. Probably, too nuch lave ]l;)y parents had spoiled

him. At Raipur instead of living in th.e hostel, he had rented

a small house where he lived alone. In the above act, he was

imitating a cinema scene wherE? teasililg is done to force a girl

into love. If censors while passing pictures could be strict '

and prohi]i;)it SlilCh scenes, the scourge of eve-teasing CGUld

be minimised considexably.

CASE STUDY No • 9

'G' aged thirty was physically assaulted by three

persons named, •v•, •s• and 'B'. The incident took place - -

at about 9.30 P.M. at night near Shyam Talkies, Raipur. The

woman who was returning ft'Qm picture was followed by accused

and under fear of knife, she was lead to a near-by ground

with a view to 'having a sexual affair with her. But soon a

police man appeared to be coming ·there upon which they left

her and took to their heels. rhe report having been made at

Police Station Kotwali. an offence was registered and accased

was challaned in the court and convicted to a fine of Rs. 50/­

each. All the three accused were students of a local college.

They often saw pictures and caSilally consumed liq~~or. They

had no interest in studies. Their parenta wb.a',_z:e lMQ

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well-to-d$ basimess men gave them little time and did not

bother what they were doing. Im fact, they even did not know

in which classes their children were studying. They did not

object to their late nights and poor examination resultso The

girl 'G' used to sell vegetables in the G@l Bazar. She was

known to be of cheap morals. There is a likelihood of her

being a willing partner to the act. She mast have made the

complaint only on seeing the police man to escape being herself

being l:larassed for vagrancy.

OBSERVATIONS

lllrinq the period of our study, there have been 427 cases

of molestation. These figures do not really reflect the posi­

tion as many cases nm.st not have been reported to the Police

Stations due to fear of reprisal from the accused who might be

influential or powerful or due to other possible consequences

or due to taking light of indecent touches on body or the

uttering of indecent remarks by some women with a view to

avoiding publici~y which can prove very harmful to them and

their tamily and' socially resulting in a lQt of damage and de­

famation. Besides the thought of going to Police Stations and

courts deters people from reporting cases.

As elsewhere the molestation is due to bad company and

bad gua~ianship. In case study Noe 6 and 8 we see that the

offences were colmllitted were dae to the lack of proper care

and guardianship by the respective parents.

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In crime study Nos. 2 and 3 we find how under the in­

fluence of liquor, a man fails to distinguish between the

right and wrong# the correct and the incorrect.

We could minimise the cases of molestation if we ta~e •.. a simple precaution that young women must not go unescorted'

in the night or in lonely areas~ The courts could help by

giving deterrant punishments to the culprits to set an exam-

ple to the like-minded. The press and the public could help

by giving •vide publicity to names of accused who though be-

longing to good families still indulge in the indecent acts.

The cheap films, periodicals and books which depict sex in a

naked manner and teach ever-tQ!asing as one method of forcing

a girl into love nee'd also to be banned.

(D) UNNATURAL OFFEJTCE

An unnatural offence is a sexual offence against the

Law of Nature. It can be a sexual act between two men known

as sodo~. It can be between man and woman if penetration

is from anus. It can be a sexual affair between two women

known as a 'lesbian' act. It can be a sexual union between a

human being and an animal. In this case an animal can be

aggressive as also passive. Dogs are known to be to be

aggressive. The other animals like cow, she goat, etc. are

known to be passive. Some quacks prescribe sex act with an ass

as a remedy for venera! diseases.

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So far as Raipur district is concer~~ed, there is very

little incidence of the unnatl\lral o:t:fence. Even in jails,

where the cconvicts or 1ilndertrials are forced to remain away

f~m their wives or from other women for long periods, tn~~

is very little report of homo-sexnality. Whatever incidenee ·

of unnatural offence in chhatisgarh is there, it is attribu­

ted to outsider influence f0r example, MJ.slims origin.ally f:rom

other States or people who have migrated from Pakistan like

Sindhis and Punjabis. The incidence can also be attrilw.ted

to o1iltsiders who have collected here in heavy industrial pro-

jects like Bhilai, KOrba, Bailadila, etco

There is little incidence of homosexuality in Chhatis- ,

garh as there is no sex repression in this area. Whenever a

person, man or woman, gets a sex desire and if he ha$;the will

he finds the way for its satisfaction. Not only that, there

is system of early marriages in this area and due to the

economic independence of woman and her freely remaining away

from home, the man and woaan have sufficient chances of mixing .. and enjoying sex before, during amd after marriage. The young

boys and girls get sufficient opportuaity of having sex con-'

nections with one another while they are grazing the cattle

or while taking bath at a common place. or while going for

answeriag the call o:t: natllre. It is tr11e that this fact -81:

not be known to others and that ao child be bora ~tside tbe

wedlock or the 'chtri' Marriage. For this, sufficient pre­

cautions are taken. '!'has there beiag no sex repression, there

is no teadeacy for sex peiYersions like ~seXIlality.

· Dlrlring the ten years' perie~d of our study of: the sex·

cri111e of Raipur district, there have been only 4 offences of

the unnatural act. Of this, there has not been even a single

c;o.<ae.of homoseXl!lality between women and women, women and animals­

animals acting aggressively or passively.

A tew of the perpetrators ef the unnatural act were

interxogated and they confessed that so far as acts with

animals were concermed# they did these for fun sake, after

having seen animals doing it themselves. They felt very shame­

:tul fer their acts. In our study, none of the perpetrators

<i>f the unnatural offences has been an <Driginal resident of

Chhatisgarh.

With these preliminary remarks we will now proceed to

describe some of the reported cases:-

CASE STUDY N0.1

•a• aged 16 resident of Gbalbadi, PS saraipalli was seen

by one 'R' while he was engaged in a sex act with a cow during

noon time in the Jungle. •o• is from Orissa. He did the act

only to imitate the animals and enjoy fun as he often sees

cattle doing it. The case having been reported, an offence

was registered. The accased was challaned in the court of law

and was convicted to a fine of Rupees Fifty only. Nor.ally,

this is a serious offence but courts took a lenient view be~

cause of the young age of the accased aDd fe'Wiless •f soeh

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offences in this area. 0n looking back, 'D 1 feels sorry

and ashamed for sach an act. He .is now happily married anu

has three children.

CASE STUDY N0 9 2

'P' aged thirty five was alle~ed to have attempted

a sex act with a cow during the evening time. The report

having been made, an offence was registered. The accused

was challaned im the court. He was let off till tl:le risiag

of the court. 1P' hails fr(l)m the adjacent Orissa. He is'.·

a married man amd has had n(l) child. His wife had go11e to

the parents for the five last months. He only wanted to

let off his tension. He did not complete the act. Be had

not done such an act before. While grazing the cattle, he

suddenly got aroused while seeing a bull and cow in union.

He feels very sorry for the act. He ruefully believes that

because he had attempted sex on the sacred cow. God bas

deprived him of the pleasure and privilege of being a fat.bert.

CASE STUDY N0.3

'DP' was found copulating with a buffaloe 0 The

offence having been reported, a case was registered, investi­

gated and cballaned and the accw.sed was admonished f.z:oa tlut

court of law. 'DP' was aged fifteen only. He was a grazer

a!ld did the act only for fua as anials do. He too bails

froRt Orissa.

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CASE SWDY NO. 4

1J.S' aged thirty five years was alleged to have in­

dulged in· a home-sexual offence with 1 S 1, a young Sindhi boy .•

The report having been made, a case was registered. The accus­

ed was sentenced to three months 1 rigorous imprisonment by

the court. Here in the case both the accused and the passive

agent were outsiders and they did not belong to Chhatisgarh,

1 J 1 was a widower since last ten years. He had not married

since then. The above act was result of his early bad-com­

pany among Pathans of Sind. He was given to sodomy even when

his '!life was alive. Earlier bad company was responsible for

this obnoxious habit of his.

CASE STUDY NO. 5

'A.S. 1 committed sexual act with one 1DP' aged eight

years under the fear of ::;tabbing him with a knife. I-E could

not complete the act as the boy raised a cry and the people

came to his rescue. The offence was registered at Police

Station Mahasamund. The accused was sentenced till rising

of the court. The accused was a Muslim originally hailing

from u.P. He is an ex-criminal, having been caught for theft.

He had learnt homo-sexual practices while under going imprison­

ment in l'Ioradabad Jail. He had seen others indulging in it.

CASE S'l'UDY NO. 6

'O.B'originally hailing from Rajasthan, corrrnitted

sexual act with a Bengali boy in a hotel.The offence having been

reported was registered and the accused was challanged. He was ser

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to fo11r months • rigorous imprisomment fro• the Court.

In this ease both accused and complainant came from • 11"\'

outside Chhatisgarh. The accused who was.a graduate and a

married man had developed great hatred for women due to the

extremely irritable nature of his wife who accordin~ to him

had made his life a hell by constant nagging. Besides, he

doubted her character. The cmaditions ia his parental home

were equally no go0d 0 As a child, he had bitter memories of

quarrels between his father and mother. He had therefore

started hating women and sought satisfaction in people of

his kind. There was one more reason for his hatted of women.

He possessed a small organ and the first woman whom he had

contacted had made fun of his rediculous size.

CASE STUDY NO.7

'K' originally r/o u.P. committed sexual act on one

'E' aged about eight years in the night. The offence was

registered at Police Station Ganj. The accused and eomplai-

nant were both from outside Chhatisgarh.

The accused was a previo~s convict and a married man.

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His wife had forsaken him due to his being given to drinking

and for not giving her food. During his stay in the jail he

had seen other o.onvicts indulging in holll()-semality in tums.

He himself started doing it there. Later after release~ he

could not give up this habit which he found ~re pleasing

than a regular sex act with a woman. The pain during t)te

aet to the partner gave hi.al a lot of pleasure which increaeed

his pleasurable sensations.

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CASE STUDY N0.8

One 1Ms' aged thirty committed sexual act on a younq

boy named •pt aged ten years on the night: The report having

:been made an offence was registered at Police Station Kotwal:l. .. · ·

For want of evidence the accused could not be challaned.

Here too the accused was on outsider from calcutta. He .bel0nge<il

to a middle class merchant family and was the only child af his

parents. The accused was an M.A. He had picked up this habit

in the college hostel. Th0ugh married for the last five years,

he had not given up homosexuality. Homosexuality gave him more

pleasure as he felt a more tightening sensation at the place

of entry and this also flattered his ego that he could pene-

trate even a tight orifice.

OBSERVATIONS

During the ten years periC!ld of our study from 1960

to 1970, there were only forty one cases of Unnatural offences

in District Raipur.

The number of offences in this category is very little.

Though the number is not much rut still it is felt there must

have been more offences than the above number reported as the

natlire of the offence is such that generally it is not reported

to the police and no notice taken. Very often homosexuality

takes place between two consenting partners who adopt acti...e

and passive roles in turn or there are s0111e passive persons

who love to be treated accordingly. Thus in such cases there

is no question of an aggrieved person to IDilke a report. This

is also true of a lesbian act which is a homosexual affair

between two consenting women. If the act is with the animal,

the animal being dumb and helpless cannot complain '

lilntil

the act is seen by a third person who may or may not repon

the ofteace to the police as he is not directly involved and

on the contrary by reporting the matter to the police he

makes himself liable to spend his time in not only going

to the police station Wut also to the court. which normally

he would not, since in both the Police Station and the Court

he has to undergo a lot of inconvenience. In view of the

above circumstances• the reporting of 11nnat111ral offence is

very little everywhere.

It is heartening to remark that in none of the cases

of unnatural crtffence, no lei>cal person tDf .Raipur was involved.

It was mostly the outsiders from Orissa or people hailing

from areas with Muslim influence who were given to this cri~t~e.

The non-commission of this crime in Raipur can be well explain-

ed due to the fact that tlaere is no sex repression in .Raipur

District. If a person caB satisfy his sex in a natural method

why should he take to the abnormal one. A man generally enter­

tains homo-sexual thoughts and feelings if he is denied normal

heterosexual outlets. J:)Ie to this reason we have not come

across even a single case among locals. The same reason holds

good about women also. It a woman can get her satisfaction

in a normal way. why she should adopt the abnormal way 1 'l'his

explains how in our study we have found no case in which a

female has been accused of an act with another fe-le1 exhibit­

ing the libidino'lls features that cha.ractariae ae:aal acta betwe

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males. Besides the influence of the wester.a publications

and pornograptlic photographs showing women in awkward posi­

tions is not there in Raipur which is not yet materialisti­

cally well .advance<fi to spoil their mind and influence adverse:

the local women who are generally illiterate and have little

access to such publications.

We may say that unnatural otfence howsoever little in

the area of our study is d1ae to ~ fG>Ur factors :-

(1) Bad company (2) For the sake of fun (3) Sadistic

Impulses and (4) Woman hating.

Case study Nos. 4, 5 & 7 prove that this perversion

was indulged in and learnt due to bad company and bad iafluence.

In case study Noso 1, 2 & 3 offence, offence was

indulged in by graziers in the jungle who imitated animals

just for the sake of fun.

In case study No.6 we get a solitary case of a person

who has grown into a WG>man-hater due to his being repeatedly

jilted by women he loved.

Case study No. 7 presents before us another solitary

example in which a person due to sadistic impulses for causing

pain to the other partaer and thereby getting pleasure,committed

the offence.

Slmmarising, we might say that the incidence of Unnatural

Otfence is aot 1111ch a proble111 in Raipur ciistrtct. With the

growing intenaingling of sexes, it is also not likely to illcu:ease

in its pmportion. But all the aa~~e, we bave to Me it ia its

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pn>per perspective, neither ignoring it ru>r giving it a dis:-.

pxoporti0nate amount Cllf attention, HGimoseX!lality often

resa.lts in physical injury to the passive partner ~nd eveR

the infection of venere~ldisease. More tman that, it causes

a lot of psychological and emotional damage to the victims.

The organisations charged with the keeping of public morality.

have always to be watchful with regard te this abominable

crime.

(E) KIDNAPPING:

CASE STUDY NO. 1

'B' aged sixteen years rjo PS Kharora was kidnapped

by three persons named. (1) 1M.K.', (2) 1 B.K. •, (3} 1 R.K. •

residents of U.P. A case was registered at Police station

Neora. They took away the girl f.mm Tilda Railway station

with her consent for 111arriage. The accused perSE>ns were

arrested with the girl at Bilaspur Railway station by the

Railway Police. For want of evidence, the case was finally

reported. At the time of offence 1 B 1 was aged sixteen. She

was tall, healthy and good looking. She used to make a living

by lror:king as a labourer. Her another sister, two years

younger to her also u.sed to woik as a labourer. The reJnaia-

ing three brothers were aged ten, eight and six and usec:l

to stay at home. The father was sickly a&d •sed to -.ffer

from Asthma. He wov.ld not eam anything. '!.'he W>tber uaecl

to wash v.tensils in a liq~~or shop. '!'be faaily was tAils na

on tae ~~eagz:e eamings of the tw girls aDd -.:>ther wbiob

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hardly came to three-four npees per a day. SOmetimes whea,

WG>rk was not available, the sisters retuned home empty

hande<i!. It did happen some idmes that rice being not avai­

lable in the house, the family had to go without food, till

it could be borrowed @r ooney arran'lfed• It was in these

circumstances that •a• contacted the accmsed who attracted

by her youth and looks approached her with he promises of a

comfortable life and als<!> the prospects that she will be

able to send some money !!lome every month for her. brothers

and sisters. Lnred by these, she willingly accompanied

them to join the flesh trade. Being uneducated and ignorant,

she did oot realise the impact of what she was doing. She

had experienced sex earlier in the village and did net attach

impertance to it. Accordin.g to her, she had even informed

their parents aoout her decision and taken their consent.

After all, a number of other girls had gone to calcutta

from her village to become prostitutes. Thlls enqui.ty reveal­

ed that the girl was being taken by these people to some

place in U.P. where she WE>Uld have been sold to some prosti­

tution house. She was fro111 a poor house. Her parents had·

a big family and were not able to give sufficient food and

clothes to all in the family. She longed and pined for the

good things of life--good food, good clothes and good omaments

which the accused bad promisecil her. The police interventioa

in the case llpset her plans. She had to come back to the

village where she 111arried and is living a happy life. Now

she seems happy that she was saved fmm culprits who wanted

to make her a pzostitute.

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CASE STUDY NO, 2

1 I,B.' age<d sixteen years r/o Maha.salllllnd was kidmapped

by (1) P.M.,· (2) N.s., (3) P. mother of nN,S,,. An offence

was registered at PS Mahasamund. The accused persons No. 2

and 3 kidnapped the girl hy luring her to see the Ganga

Triveni Sangam and took her t0 Allahabad a.md left her in the

Jwuse af accused No. 1 as a married wife. On her refusal to

d0 what they wanted, they threatened to 1111\lrder her, They

locked her in the house for tnree days and rape<d her foroibly.

After three days, when they brought her to railway statiom,

the girl told her tale to a Police Constable. Accused persons

were arrested and challaned. All accused were convicted. At

the time of offence, 1I' was aged fifteen, She had gone to

the school only for fQur classes. Later due to the death

of the mother, followed within a year by the death of the

father,. she left school and stayed at home to help her 'chachi 1

in holl.sehold worlc. She was the only child of her parents,

Her 'ahachi • was a :mu~h type of lady who used to treat her

badly and mot even give her food timely though her 'chacha 1

was good to her. Her 'ahaahi 1 t«~uld differentiate between

her own two daughters and •r• and treat her badly, abuse

and beat her, As she grew of age, her "c:hacha" got her

employed as a .aid servant in the bouse 'of a Ma:r::wari Seth,

She started staying in the house of her e~~ployer and by Mr

devoUon and hard wodt, 110n the love of the lady of the

bo1lse who was ca-ite elderly, kind and religious lliDded,

Fro• her, 'I' came to know about the Hind11 Gods and Goddesses,

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As ill l11ck would nave it, 'I's employer lady fall ill and

died. The ashes of the lady were sent to Allahabad for

immersion. Since that time, she was very eager to go to

Alla:habad and have a "Darsham" of the sacred river where

her gracious lady's ashes had m4fgled. Arter the death of

the lady, she mad started workimg at a road-side tea stall

where the culprits having known her desire to see Prayag and

being attracted by her l<Dok.s and youth that she would fetch

good money, waylaid her. She being uneducated and ignorant

fell victim to t~ir desi§Ils. The religious sense that she ,

had imbibed from her lady made her revolt against the evil

intentions of the culprits and so she did not collqiromise

with their evil intentions and reported the matter tc the

Police.

~SE STUDY NO. 3

1K.B.' aged eleven- twelve years r/o Jorapara, Raipur

city was kidnapped by 11: 1 Proprietor of a Cycle Store in

Bhilai. The incident took place when she had gone to bring

water. The matter was reported at Police statiol'l Ganj after

15 days. A case was registered and investigated. on invest~­

gation it was found that the girl had gone to Bhilai with

one •c• for getting a j c;~b Cllf cleaning bou.se-hold u.teasils

and she married there another ma.a. She Dever returned to

her house, as she was u.nhappy in her 'bome. 'fhe previous

husband With Wbolll the girl Bad a qttarrel, beiaq aggrieved

reported the effence. For want of evidence, the case was

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fi~ally reportedo Tais was obviously a technical case ana

the girl had gone with the accused of her own accora. 'She

was u!Jieducated and :l:ler father and motmer had been dead since

laag. Sae aad 0nly one brother who had several years ag-o

g0ne to Tea Gardens and was mea.td of mo more. Thlils one day

when her husband suspecting her to be iR love with a neiglll­

bour had ll>eaten her badly, she had none to go to and given

the company of •c•, she went to Bhilai who under the pretext

of getting her a job in fact introduced her to a cycle soop

owner whose keep she became. When her hus:Oand came to know

of it, he went to bring her back but she did not come. At

this, he reported the matter to the Police. According to

her, it is t:t:\le t"liat she was carrying on with her neighbour

who was her mate since childhood and treated her with great

love and affectiom. But up till marriage with her lm.sband,

she had no sex with him. It is during the period betweell

marriage and 'Gauna• that she got, his physical intimacy

which she desired the most having tasted sex at marriage aad

missing it during the intervening period. She found her

paramour better and more satisfying than her husband.

CASE sr!JDY NO. 4

'K' aged twenty five r/o Arang was kidnapped by •s•. A oase was registered at PS Bagbeh.ta. Pirst the accused

forcfilly gave her liquor and after tnat he took aer to

Raipur and Raqpur by .rail. Pma Ragpar the aaaaMd took tae woaa~~ to Mat:..aza. Oa interrogation by the pablia at Matmua

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tllle accu.sed ran away. Aoc:msed was arrested by Railway P<illiae.- ·

For want of evidence, the case was finally reported. In this

case the accused had wrongfully taken the §irl to be sold to

some one for 100ney. The author as ~pdto of Police, Raipur

came across two gaags, who during the years had takelll a

large number of girls to places dn u.P., PQnjab and Bihar

and sold them to such persons who due to old age or other

reasons were not able to get a woman in tlleir celllli'W.nity for

marriage. In most cases, the peor parents Gf the girls bad

taken money as price for girls. The author sent a number

of police parties to places like Hathras, Budayun, Agra,

Matbura, ·Jaunpur, etc. No incriminating evidence could be

collected against the accused as by then, the girls had

become motners of a u,ulllber of children and were living

happily. 151atura1ly they could :not be in a mood to ret11rn

or in any way depc~>se against their men whom they had started

adoring as their husbands al!ld as the fathers of their childreD.

CASE S'l'IJDY NO. 5

"B.s• aged fifteen was kidBapped by 'H' caste Rawat.

The incident took place when the girl had gone to bring

water. A case was registered at PS ~aon. The fact 8f

the case was that the brother of the girl had married the

wife of the accused with her c:onseat aad kept her ia bia

bouse. Ille to this the &oaased kidnapped the girl &ad J.ecked

her ia IUs lilo1ue to 11arry her. The JU.tter waa reported to

the Village Pllnahayat and the Panoba.yat ia f.r:oat of wiue••••

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'· opened the lack of t'he aoaused's house and took out th

girl. rue to role of Panchayat which 'llad got the matt'

settled, witnesses did mot come forward to give evidence.

The case had to be clased. This was obviously a case @f

barbaric revenge the girl being made to su.ffer f0r the fa11lt

of her brother.

CASE S'l.'UDY NO. 6

•s.s• aged thirteen or fourteen years r/c PS Bagbehra

was kidnapped by •s•. The incident tGok place about one and

half month "before the report. An intimation was received

from Rewa to ~lice StatiGm City KOtwali and case was regis­

tered and investigated. The accused kidnapped the girl by

telling her that he will make her his sister. He brought

her to Rewa and from Rewa he took her to Allahabad and sold

her to one Seth. Challan was put up in the court of law from

where the accused was acquitted for want of incriminating

evidence. Obviously, this was a case of trafficing in women.

At the time of incident, •s• was aged fifteen. She used to

work as a labourer in the P.w.n. She had never gone to the

school. Her mother had left her when she was two years old.

She had never seen her -.:lther who had then forsaken her father.

She was brought up by her father who used to work as a cobbler.

She had no brothers or sisters. Being simple and ignoraat

she had been von over by the sweet talk of the ac:auaed 1t'lao

was a previGUs c:oaYiat of two times for theft -d .. de IUs

living by oriRdaal activities.

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CASE STUDY NO, 7

1G.B 1 r/0 Badhaipara, Raipur city was kidnapped by

1 R1 aged thirty eigl\t years r/o Raipur city. As per inti­

mation received from P.s. chhawni Bhilai a case was regis-/

tered at PIDlice station Ganj and investigated, The aoaused

kidnapped the girl while she was returning fxom market by

showing her a dummy pistol and took her to Bhilai. The girl

in fact had earlier been the keep of the accased but later

had left hlm for another lover, because the accused drank

heavily and at times ab&sed and beat her. On one night he

gave her such a severe beating that she became almost uncon-

scious. Fbr want of evidence, the case was finally reported.

By time of iaterregation for the present study 1G,S.' had

changed her lnlsbands four times. She felt justified in

doing so, as according to her, she could not be the slave

of man, She earned herself by selling vegetables. She

married only for the sake of company. several times $he

supported her husbands. But when her husbands misbehaved

with her, she felt like throwing them out. She had not

borne any child so far.

CASE STUDY NO. 8

'B' aged fourteen years of Basna was kidnapped by

'R' aged thirty two years also of Basna. The incident took

place in the night. The accused called the girl 1:o go 1:o

calcutta alonqwith her by saying that he will qiTe her

clothes, wrist watch and will .arry her to a good -n.

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The girl went with the accused after taking all her ornaments.

Hiving stayed tor two days with the accused, they were

arrested by the ~lice while they were on their way to

calcutta. Challan was put up in the court of law fNm

where the accused was acquitted. Obviously the girl was

being kidnapped f4Dr being sold in the red-light area of

calcutta where there <J.v:.re too many girls f:oom Raipur and

adjacent districts. At the time of incident, 'B' was aged

sixteen. She was yeung and healthy. Her father was a poor

ta:rmer. Her IDOther did some casual labour. She had tlro

younger brothers aged ten and eight. Neither she had been

to school nor the brothers. From her village, several girls

had gene to Calcutta. Whenever they came home, they wore

beautiful clll>thes and had good omaments. They l<Jioked

beautiful also with the use of costly cosmetics. They had

Imving radio sets alSCl). Lured by the luxurious way of these

girls. she chose to accompany the accused ~ Calcutta. The

Calcutta girls even confided in her that there they got hand­

some, rich and attractive men to sleep with who gave them

costly presents and varied pleasu.re for long periods.

CASE STUDY NO. !

'M.B' resident of Katoratalab Raipur City was kid­

napped by 'B' also of Katomtalab.., Rlipur City. The aaae

was registered at Police Station city Kotwa.li. '!'be 9irl

was a student and the ac<::llseci was giving ution to aer.

They fell in leve. When the •tter caae to the knowledge

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of parents of the girl. they stoJ?ped the tuticua~ The aoc:w1sect'

kidna]?ped the girl and tecok her to Dhamtari and Korba fmm

where the girls was got ret11rme& back lily t11J.e elder brother

of the accused. Challal'l was J!>Ut up in the co11rt. Acoused

was acquitted f:oom the court. 'l'he lll!<).~e has a.n urlllaJa teu.ch

and incidents of this type are oaften heard of in cities. In

this case, bc:lth the complainant and the acc111sed were Simdhis

and thus outsiders.

OBSERVATIONS

During the period of our study there were only 167

cases. Obvi&usly, this number is mot much in view of the

long ten years• period of 0ur study and liiOre than ten laos

of papulation in the district.

So far as the aoove offence is concerned, this area

provides a distinct ccmtrast, tne area being 1110re xural

than urban, there aJ:E! very tew secret love affairs as in

the urban areas where when the love affair comes to a point

when the parents do not agree the boy and the girl .IUD away

and the offence of kidnapping is registered against the boy.

Here when the boy and girl like eaaa other they either

marry or eater into a •eimri' type of marriage. The parents

too become a party to tl!l.e affair and the -village panclte.ya~

is always available to regularise the episode.

As in the north or else vhere, kidaappiags are •t

co.U.tted here vith a view to vreclting veageance. Il1 •r

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st111dy •e Rc!ve come across only one case in study N<i>. 5 i:n · .

wl!lic&! a person . Jddnapped the sister of a boy whe had married

his beloved. Obviously t&!e peE~ple here are peaoe-leving and ) I

law-abiding. Most 0£ the kidmappings reported te the JP01ice:

pertain to illll00ra1 traffic. case study Nes. 1, !2, 4, Iii aad

8 are examples on t:lae point. In these cases, the poor qirls

were lured away by intrig11l.i'flg persons for beimg sold ill

marriage to other people or being sold in the prostituti&Il

markets elsewhere. Poverty and ignorance c;~.re the. main factor.s

If the women had sufficient to eat in their ~uses and saffi-

cient education, they would not have been lured away deceit­

fully };)y the gangsters.

Keeping in view, peace-loving nature of local people,

kidnapping is oot a p:tl!lblem here and the chastity and virtue

of woman is mot in danger on this account. The kidnappings

take place 1110stly by gangsters tor immoral purposes who take

away women to far off place for p:mstitu.tion.

(F) INFANTICIDES (~rder of illegitimate Newborns)

'llthatever might be said for opport'llnities for free sex

being available in Chhatisgarh, it Ra.s to be believed that

the Chhatisgarh society does not tolerate a bastatd. Everr

child IRilst have a father. If the child has no father, the

society will .aake it ditfic::alt for his parents to live. A

wo111an is free to marry again if a first 111arriage baa 110t beea

successful. Slle is free to leave the lw.sband and liTe wi'tll

anotber l1asband by way of a 1 Cblr1 1 •rriage. 'rhe 1101811 llaa

live se:xaally only with a :AIII.slDand by whom slile has been kept

or married. _r..ny one who iadllllges in adultery sr !!>re-marriage:

sex commits a AIOral offence. lll/lae:n this happens, the matter

is discussed in the Village Panchayat. The culprit bay and

girl are severely punished. This explains why even between

consenting partners wh~n they are seen i:a coRlp.t:olllising posi-{,f

the woman always cries out that she was being AlOlested ·!

or raped.

In view of the above circumstances, safticient pre-

cautions are taken by the girls who are llrunarried or are

widows or have not been kept by anyone to see that no con-

ceivement takes place or if llnfortunately it takes place,

quick marriage is celebrated or an abortion is arranged. Ia

view of the current birth contNl methods and the new xules'

of the law permitting abortions at notified hospitals, in

future there will be lesser offences of infanticides. Daring

the period •nder review that is 1960 to 1970 a n111.mber of

cases of infanticide were aoticed in the district. The modus-

operandi was to leave the hedy of the new born child at

some odd place where it was not easily noticed.

The investigatilim of SliiCh offences is very difficult.

The·· body of the child is recovered after a .long span of tfae..

By that time, the dead body bas deeo~ap~Jsed se 1111ch that it

becomes difficult to hGild a proper, post-110rt11a exaainatieR.

The Doctors even cannot say that the child was laem dead or

alive. Besides the place chosen for offence is ., far away

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ftom the place of residence that the correct accused cannot

be ascertained 0 With these prelimina.ry remarks, we may

study a few representative cases.

CASE STUDY NO. 1

1K.M 1 aged t;hirl::y years ana her paramour •H• were ·

allecged to have thrown. imto a •pond 1 a new-b9tn ehild. 'l'he

report having beem made an offence was registered , :.: and the

accused arrested and challaned and were sentenced by the

Court of Law. 'K.M. I "Bad been left off by her previous mas-

band about five years ago as she was one-eyed. 1 H1 was a

bachelor and five years youager to her. Both tell for each

other for sex-satisfaction enly. Both were of the same caste,

of the same village and belonged to a farmer's community. '

Being uneducated, they did not know the mode.rn birth contml

methods. The birth of a child outside wedlock was to give a

bad name to the 1romam and so she with the help of her para-

mour decided to d0 away with the body of the new-bom.

CASE STUDY NO. 2

1K 1 aged thirty years was alleged to have given birth

to a child. In the jungle the child was left by her. After

her hllsband w"ho having been iavolved ia a criminal case had

n.n away and when there was ao Dews of his whereabouts, ue

had co11e tc> stay with her parents. She had started levillv

the yollng •n. liTing next doOr. The passion of the ygata bad

dmwn her to aa iDtillacy which realted ia abeTe. file p'la.o.r

and sllle werked in a rice-mill. They both were uneducated.

The paramour "R" was aged about 40 and was married and had

five children. She enjoyed 1 K1 s, company t>eoause he liked

her. "K" got pregl'lant, she tried all methods knowa ia the

villages to get rid Cilf pregnancy but none of these wo:tked.

Going to a regular doctor im the Government hospital G>r a

Private Practiti0ner was out of question for fear of social

defamation.

The offence was registered at P.s. Kllrad. The accused

was admonished from the Court.

CASE STUDY NO.3

•v• aged 22 widow and Gne 1D1 allegedly hid in the

jungle the bc!Pdy of a new-bor:n child~ "V" bad slept with., her

husband only once as he went to fight in India-china War

soon after marriage. She waited for him a few months and

finding him not returning, she came to stay with her elder

sister in the adjacent village and started making her living

by casu.al labour. After having tasted the pleasures of sex

with her husbamd, sllle craved for it. She had a number of

sexual intercourses with •n• whet also was working as a casaal

labourer on fields in the Same village. The resu.lt was the

conception of the child. '!'he report having been 11ade, aa

offence was registered at P.s. Kbamn. '!'he accused waa

arrested and a ahallan was pwt wp in the court. Beth tile

accused were fiaed RB. fifty each. Both the accused were

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uneducated. They bGtl:l were without partBers. The man had

been deserted by his wife.as she found.a better man. B0tb,

the accused were unaware of the modern c:emtraeeptive methods.

CASE S~DY NO. 4

• H' aged twenty and her 1100ther were alleged to have

thNWJa a mew oorn child in a J!lOI'ld. The report having been

made a case was registered at P.s. Neora. The accused was

arrested and challaned. Both were sentenced for one month's

imprisonment. 'H' !:lad got into an illicit affair with 'R.C'

who had promised to marry the girl. 'R.C' en comimg to know

the pregnancy, slipped away fn>m the village to tea ga:tdens

in Assam and was heard of no more. The girl and the mother ~

thought of disposing ~f the infant to escape i~ame. 'H'

and 1 RC 1 both are unmarried. Bothuere uneducated. 'Rc"i had

come ·home on leave from tea gardems. He was said to be a

man of easy morals and was simply having fun with 'H' witn-

out being at all serious for marryii'lg her.

CASE STUDY NO. 5

1K' caste sat:aallli aged thirty was alleged to have

th.rown in the night a new bom child in tlae fam. Its dead

body was recovered.. 'l'he report having been 111ade on offence

was registered at P.s. Pala.ri. Tile CDffence took place ill

village Kodwa Palari. 'l'he accused was arrested aad cballaa

was put llp in the court of law and the accused was sentenced

to three 110ntba' rigoxous illprii!IOillllent. 1 JC' is an uneducated

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wo~aan aged thirty. She had been married at the age of twent.y ~·

Having failed to produce a child d~riag the first five years

of marriage, her husband gave her u.p and brought another

woman. Since then, she WjlS living with her mother. She

was making a living by working as a caSllal labolllrer {bbani­

bhuti) as she calls it. The pregmancy was the result of a

repeated affair she was having with the "Manshi u of the

Panchayat. She bad to throw away the body of the new hom

as she did not want defamation.

CASE STUDY NO. 6

1 s• was alleged to 111ave thrown the body of the child.

The report having been made, an offence was registered. The

accmsed

a young

was challan~d admonished fmm the

girl of sixteen years and had studied apto tenth

class. She was nG~t yet married. She became f:i:rendly witb

' a boy of the neighbQurhood. She had become fond 0f cheap

novels and his boy friend was bringing sach books ·for her

very frequently. one day he brought for her a beok on sex

which contained a lml1ll:;>er of pictures of Men and women in

compromising positions. She read the book secretly.and its

reading added fuel to the fire inside her. On the pretext

of going to latrine in the "maidan" in the night, she met 'i.

her boy ·frequently. Every experience intoxicated her all

the 1110re and she waited impatiently for the next meeting.

In the second llll)nth of contact, she conceived and her -.una

did aot appear. She felt very sorry aa now her w~le career

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was finished. Her parents were uneducated. She had planned

that she will study and beceme a school teacher in the village.

CASE" STuDY NO. 7

1 SB' aged thirty P.s. Simga was alleged to have thrown

a male child in the •nallah•. It could not be known if the

child was born or dead. She had left her husband more than

a year ago. She had given up her husband as he was 1anable to

lead a conjugal life. She had waited for long and when more

patience was not possible, she gave him up. Her husband

was physically incapable of the sex act. From her friends,

she had heard of the bliss of sex and had even seen secretly,

the sessions of sex between. her :brother and 'bhabhi'. Ami!

when she did not have it, she left the basband. After that

she had not come out of the home as the allegation said. The ''

report having been made, an effence was registered and the

acCRsed convicted to three months' rigorous imprisonment.The

new-born was the product of the village school master who

belonged to some where is U.P. When he came to know that she

had grown pregnant, he proceeded on a few days leave and did

not come back though more than eight months had passed. It

is learned that he had deserted from service.

OBSERVATIONS

There were in all torty seven cases of iafantiaides

during the ten years period of our study. 'l'he figu.res ld.gla

not be really reflecting the situation as only when the dead

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body of t'Ae ehild is fouacd, the t~~~ffeace is reportea. . JU'CfL

many deep jltngles and a l0t of rivers aad rivulets flowing,

it cannot be ~ch diffioalt for a woman to dispose off a

dead body of a new-born child. Besides Ul'ltil there are

rivalries in the village, why should any one be imterested

in reporting against any one and involvimg himself in the

process of g-oing to the Police statiGns and to the Court,

spending his time and undergoing all inconvenience. A:bove

all, there are men and women called 'Sirahas' and 'Baigas'

who by native methods are able to deStroy the pregnancy at

the early stage.

Even after all is said above, it can be observed

that the problem of infanticide is not llllch in this area.

Generally when a woman conceives out of marriage, she enters

into a 'Clmri • type of marriage.

The fact of infanticides however brings out one point

that there is sex morality in the area and that the local

society does not appreciate sex outside marriage and that

bastatd is not tolerated by it.

Even otherwise, infanticide is aot much a probleM

here. It is not going to be a problem for one more reason.

The family planning knowledge is fast spreading. The fa.ily

planning appliances and contraceptiYes are qetting pc»pular

and becoming easily available. The st:erilisation operatiells

are being undergone by a TeJ:Y large nWIIber of aen and w-..

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In fact, Pai:p1:1r is leading in the family "planning operatiems.

The recent law also allows abortion in certain eonditions

under expert advice. Nith all this, one can enjGy sex with­

out risk 0f causing pregnamcy. And if it at all tak,s places,

there are ways to get rid of it and there is ao need ef

pregnancy p.rogressing :further and resultiag il'lts a birth of

a child. 'rhus when the ehild will not be born, there will

be no necessity of committing infanticide.