Violence on Tribal women in Tripura
Agartala, January 15, 2007: Legal shield is hardly enough to prevent domestic violence and women in the state continue to be the victims even after a statutory law. While the act has earned the wrath of many a male chauvinist lamenting disintegration of traditional family structures, various women’s organisations, on the other hand, have welcomed it.
The fact remains that conjugal bliss is a chimera in many a household in Tripura.
“In my subdivision alone, 14 housewives were killed while nine more committed suicide last year. This year, one suicide has been reported,” said SDPO, Sonamura, Smriti Ranjan Das.
Suspecting an extra-marital relation, a teacher had recently beheaded his wife near Agartala. As if that wasn’t enough, dowry-related torture led Malati Paul to commit suicide at Sonamura yesterday.
Chairperson of Women’s Commission Tapati Chakraborty admitted that there were rising cases of incidence of crimes against women. “We are organising awareness programmes across the state. Let’s see if our organisation can bring about any radical change in people’s attitude.”
Police, too, admitted that a number of laws notwithstanding, incidents of domestic violence against women, including ill treatment of wives by their husbands, were continuing unabated in different parts of Tripura.
Suspecting that Namita, 36, had an extra-marital relation with his younger brother Arun, Prashanta, 42, teacher of a senior basic school in Jirania murdered her in cold blood. The couple with two grown-up children had been living in Dalura village under Ranir Bazar police station eight km east of Agartala for the past seven years after being ousted from militant-infested Jampuijala.
Prashanta would often engage in altercations with Namita who used to deny the allegations.
On Friday morning, Prashanta again broached the subject when Namita was working at the courtyard. Fed-up with his suspicion, an angry Namita told Prashanta not to pester her or else face police action.
Finding this too much to stomach, Prashanta rushed to the kitchen, came out with a hatchet and beheaded his wife.
He stood still by the blood-splattered body till the police came after being informed by Arun. Makhan Paul, 42, a businessman of Monaipathar under Sonamura subdivision, married Malati Paul. But his demands for dowry and an alleged illicit relation with a widow pushed Malati to the brink of desperation. She finally decided to take her life. The couple had two children.
Agartala, January 15, 2007: Legal shield is hardly enough to prevent domestic violence and women in the state continue to be the victims even after a statutory law. While the act has earned the wrath of many a male chauvinist lamenting disintegration of traditional family structures, various women’s organisations, on the other hand, have welcomed it.
The fact remains that conjugal bliss is a chimera in many a household in Tripura.
“In my subdivision alone, 14 housewives were killed while nine more committed suicide last year. This year, one suicide has been reported,” said SDPO, Sonamura, Smriti Ranjan Das.
Suspecting an extra-marital relation, a teacher had recently beheaded his wife near Agartala. As if that wasn’t enough, dowry-related torture led Malati Paul to commit suicide at Sonamura yesterday.
Chairperson of Women’s Commission Tapati Chakraborty admitted that there were rising cases of incidence of crimes against women. “We are organising awareness programmes across the state. Let’s see if our organisation can bring about any radical change in people’s attitude.”
Police, too, admitted that a number of laws notwithstanding, incidents of domestic violence against women, including ill treatment of wives by their husbands, were continuing unabated in different parts of Tripura.
Suspecting that Namita, 36, had an extra-marital relation with his younger brother Arun, Prashanta, 42, teacher of a senior basic school in Jirania murdered her in cold blood. The couple with two grown-up children had been living in Dalura village under Ranir Bazar police station eight km east of Agartala for the past seven years after being ousted from militant-infested Jampuijala.
Prashanta would often engage in altercations with Namita who used to deny the allegations.
On Friday morning, Prashanta again broached the subject when Namita was working at the courtyard. Fed-up with his suspicion, an angry Namita told Prashanta not to pester her or else face police action.
Finding this too much to stomach, Prashanta rushed to the kitchen, came out with a hatchet and beheaded his wife.
He stood still by the blood-splattered body till the police came after being informed by Arun. Makhan Paul, 42, a businessman of Monaipathar under Sonamura subdivision, married Malati Paul. But his demands for dowry and an alleged illicit relation with a widow pushed Malati to the brink of desperation. She finally decided to take her life. The couple had two children.
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