Honor killing in Jodhpur: Dalit youth living in live-in with a foreign girl dies under suspicious circumstances!

A day before the High Court had granted security, the family members accused the girl’s family members of killing her, protesting outside the hospital with Dalit organizations.

Published on: Jul 13, 2023

Jaipur. The body of a Dalit youth living in a live-in relationship with a foreign girlfriend in Jodhpur, the home district of Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, was found half-naked on the railway track in Basni area on July 12. Assuming it to be a suicide, the police took the body to the mortuary of Mahatma Gandhi Government Hospital for postmortem. Where the relatives refused to get the postmortem done fearing murder.

Meanwhile, the father of the deceased youth lodged an FIR at the Kudi Bhagatasani police station accusing the family members of his girlfriend of murder. The relatives along with social organizations sat on a dharna outside the hospital march demanding the arrest of the accused for registering the FIR late on Wednesday night. The relatives say that until the police arrest the accused of murder named in the FIR, they will not get the post-mortem done. On Thursday, the police officers sat on a dharna and explained with the family members and social organizations, but the matter did not work out.

this is the case

Deceased Jagdish Meghwal’s father Omaram s/o Surjaram Meghwal resident of Meghwalon Dudhia, Tehsil Luni district Jodhpur told the police that his son Jagdish was living in Jodhpur and doing private work. Jagdish and Gayatri daughter Hanumanram Prajapati resident of Kharada Bhandu were in relationship and both were in love with each other.

deceased youth

Omaram Meghwal, the father of the deceased, further told in the report that on July 7, Gayatri came to my son Jagdish on her own wish. Both documented a live-in relationship to live like husband and wife and were living in a colony in Basni area like husband and wife. The father of the deceased told the police that Gayatri’s father Hanuman Ram, mother Meera Devi resident of Dudhia, maternal uncle Suresh Kumar, Dalpat Kumar son of Dhanaram, Narendra Kumar resident of Luni, Ramesh Kumar son of Ranaram, Saravan Kumar son of Ranaram resident of Dhigana were living together. , Tehsil Rohit District Pali, had started harassing and troubling both of them. The girl’s family and other people were threatening to kill Jagdish.

Security was received from the High Court only two days ago

The father told that Jagdish and Gayatri had filed a protection petition in the High Court for the safety of their lives due to repeated threats and harassment by the girl’s family members and other people. After hearing on this, on Tuesday, July 11, the Honorable Rajasthan High Court ordered the police to provide security to the loving couple. Gayatri and Jagdish returned home the same evening with a copy of the order.

broke into the house, beat and took away

The father of the deceased youth alleged that Gayatri’s maternal uncles Suresh Kumar, Dalpat Kumar, Narendra Kumar, Ramlal Banjara came in a car after both of them reached home and entered Jagdish’s room unauthorizedly and assaulted Jagdish. . The accused took Jagdish away. The accused thrashed Jagdish and threw him on Pali Road near Jhalamand. The father alleged in the report that these same people along with others killed my son Jagdish in a planned manner. Jagdish’s dead body was thrown on the railway track in Basni area to make it look like suicide by erasing the evidence.

On the report of father Omaram, the police registered an FIR against the said accused on the charges of assault and kidnapping including murder and handed over the investigation to SC, ST Cell Jodhpur West Manaram Garg. The Mooknayak spoke to Police Station Officer Kudi Bhagatasani Suresh Kumar Charan in this regard . The SHO said that on the report of the father, a case has been registered on the charges of murder. It was a matter of love affair. On the orders of security by the court, he said that we do not have any order in this regard.

The culmination of atrocities on SC, ST in Rajasthan

In a conversation with The Mooknayak, Rahul Bamnia, who is associated with Bhimsena, told that in Rajasthan, there has been an increase in atrocities on people belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. In Rajasthan, SC, ST people are being killed for drinking water from pots. Being killed for having a moustache. Atrocities are being done for riding a mare. The voice is being silenced for speaking in the interest of the society. Now he was murdered even for falling in love.

people going to submit memorandum

He further said that the incident is from the home district of the Chief Minister of Rajasthan. The police is trying to hush up the matter. While it is clearly visible that Jagdish Meghwal was killed at another place and the dead body was dumped on the railway track to make it look like suicide. The young man does not even have a shirt on his body. Rahul said that I want to ask the CM that on one hand, the government is encouraging inter-caste marriages, while on the other hand, a Dalit youth is being killed for falling in love with a girl from another caste. He said that law and order in Rajasthan is under question. Police is not doing its duty. Especially when it comes to the justice of SC, ST, then the working style of Rajasthan Police changes. For the safety of Jagdish and Jagdish’s girlfriend, the High Court had given security orders to the police. Despite this, Jagdish was killed.

Family members caught before the security order reached the police

The press spoke to Manaram Garg, Circle Officer, SC, ST Cell, who is probing the case related to the death of Jagdish Meghwal. According to information Garg told the press, Jagdish Meghwal was in love with a girl from another caste. Both were living in a live-in relationship in Basani area of ​​Jodhpur. The girl’s relatives were angry with her for living with them.

He said that “a case of murder has been registered on late night of July 12. I have received a letter for investigation on Thursday. Preliminary investigation has revealed that for security, the loving couple had filed a protection petition in the High Court. On July 11, the court passed orders for the police commissioner, Jodhpur, to provide security to the loving couple.

It will be known after post mortem – is it murder or suicide

Garg said that investigation revealed that the court had directed both of them to go to the police commissioner with a copy of the order, but they did not reach there. Even before this, the relatives took the girl with them. He said that the girl is with her family members. In such a situation, we cannot even deny that the young man has not committed suicide. He said that before registering the FIR on the charges of murder, the GRP has also registered a case considering it as a case of runover. After this, on the report of family members, an FIR has been registered for murder.

The investigating officer further said whether it is murder or suicide, nothing can be said now. The direction of the investigation will be decided only after the investigation proceeds after the post mortem report. He said that the relatives are sitting on a dharna demanding the arrest of the accused named in the FIR. We have explained to them. The investigating officer said that on Tuesday evening the court gave orders for security, but neither through the court nor personally the security orders have reached the police.

Credits: The Mooknayak