Kids demand justice, go missing
August 20th, 2009 - 3:09 pm ICT by IBNS Tell a Friend -
Haryana, Aug 20 (IBNS) The eight-year-old Nikita and seven-year-old Himanshu, who were staging a dharna outside the Haryana Court demanding arrest of the rapists of their mother, have gone missing Thursday.
In 2006, Alka, mother of the two kids, was gang raped by five men in Sonepat district of Haryana. Not getting justice even after three years, Alka and her husband Sunil consumed poison outside the Inspector-General’s house in 2009.
Alka died but Sunil survived. However, shockingly, he was arrested on charges of murdering his wife.
Alka’s two children, along with their grandparents and other relatives, have been camping on the footpath outside the court for over a month.
“We want justice for our mother’s death and the release of our father,” Nikita said.
However, just a day after the news was carried on national channels that the kids have gone missing.
“The children and their grandparents were forcibly hauled into a vehicle by the police at 2 am Thursday and taken off to an undisclosed location,” their aunt Sheela told Times Now.
However Haryana police said the children are ‘safe’ and in their custody.
Meanwhile, Amodh Kanth, Chairperson for Commission for Protection of Child Rights (CCPC) has asked the Haryana DGP to “try to find out the facts, and then, so far as the children are concerned, they should be heard.”
The police said they have already arrested one of the five accused.
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