Ajmer blackmail scandal
The Supreme Court intervened within the Kolkata physician rape and homicide case which has been a subject of dialogue within the nation for the previous a number of days. The courtroom stated that such crimes in opposition to ladies and ladies ought to be stopped, for this we can’t watch for any new case. It is believed that after the Nirbhaya rape case in 2012, heinous crimes of rape in opposition to ladies got here extra within the middle of dialogue and motion began being taken on them. But, even earlier than this, there have been many such circumstances which shook the entire nation. One of those circumstances was the Ajmer rape and blackmailing case, which put a black mark on the wonderful historical past of Ajmer metropolis.
It is claimed that after this case got here to mild, earlier than getting married, ladies from Ajmer had been requested whether or not they too had been blackmailed on this case? If the information of that point is to be believed, the state of affairs had change into such that the dad and mom of boys began avoiding the households of ladies from Ajmer for marriage.
The courtroom has given an essential verdict on this case at the moment. The remaining six accused on this case have been sentenced to life imprisonment after 32 years. This case is an instance of how an individual’s efforts, braveness and true journalism can have an effect.
“Daughters of rich people are victims of blackmail”
An extraordinary day of May within the 12 months 1992. A information merchandise is printed on the entrance web page of Dainik Navjyoti newspaper, an area newspaper of Ajmer, Rajasthan. The headline of the information was “Daughters of rich people are victims of blackmail”… After seeing this information, there may be an uproar after which layer by layer a horrifying story is revealed. It is revealed {that a} gang used to name ladies finding out in a ladies faculty in Ajmer to a farm home and rape them and after that they had been blackmailed by displaying their obscene footage in order that they bring about extra ladies. The mastermind of this complete scandal was the then Ajmer Youth Congress President Farooq Chishti, Nafees Chishti and Anwar Chishti. There had been many different accused together with him.
This is how the sequence began
To perform their heinous intentions, these folks focused the ladies of a reputed school in Ajmer. One of the accused, Farooq Chishti, first trapped a minor lady in his love entice. Then he took her to his farm home on some pretext and raped her there. After raping the lady, the accused took her nude footage with a reel digicam. After this, the accused pressurized the sufferer to deliver her buddies there after which the sequence of brutality started.
One by one the ladies turned victims
Fearing that her obscene footage can be leaked, the helpless lady was compelled to push her good friend into this quagmire as properly. One to 2, two to a few and so forth, who is aware of what number of harmless ladies had been raped by these brutes and their nude footage had been taken. After this, they began calling everybody to totally different locations by blackmailing them and made them victims of their lust. According to the knowledge, the variety of sufferer ladies on this case was greater than 100. These ladies used to go to farm homes in entrance of the eyes of their households. Vehicles used to return to select them up and in addition to drop them again. According to Dainik Navjyoti, it was not that the police didn’t get a clue about this case, however as a result of this case may take a communal flip and the state of affairs was very unhealthy at the moment, the police was additionally afraid to take motion on this case.
Victims began committing suicide
Gradually the entire metropolis got here to find out about this scandal. The obscene footage of the ladies began going viral. According to the newspaper, after the images went viral, many different folks additionally blackmailed these ladies. After being blackmailed by so many individuals and having to bear all this alone, one after the other the ladies began committing suicide. In this manner, after the suicide of 6-7 ladies, the matter turned severe. Similarly, the obscene image of a woman floating within the air went viral within the newspaper Dainik Navjyoti.
A journalist approached Santosh Gupta. Santosh was shocked to see the image. He determined that he would unravel the matter.
This is the way it was revealed
He tried to speak to the scholars however the college students weren’t prepared to return ahead. However, after step by step assuring and convincing them, the scholars additionally confirmed braveness and got here ahead and registered a case. Santosh used his newspaper and printed the information of this scandal on the primary web page. As quickly as he did this, there was an uproar in the entire of Ajmer. Santosh began a sequence on this case and his information began placing strain on the police and administration. Along with the information, Santosh additionally printed obscene footage of the ladies wherein solely the faces of the accused had been seen in order that the sexual exploitation of the scholars might be seen with open eyes. Then, there was an uproar in the entire of Rajasthan and folks got here out on the streets.
Investigation began after strain from all sides
After the case got here to mild and was suppressed on this method, lastly underneath strain from all sides, on 30 May 1992, Bhairon Singh Shekhawat handed over the case to CID CB. After this, Ajmer Police additionally registered a report on this case and investigation was began. In this investigation, the names of criminals named Youth Congress metropolis president Farooq Chishti, vice chairman Nafees Chishti, joint secretary Anwar Chishti, Almas Maharaj, Ishrat Ali, Iqbal Khan, Salim, Zameer, Sohail Ghani, Puttan Allahabadi, Naseem Ahmed alias Tarzan, Parvez Ansari, Mohibullah alias Maradona, Kailash Soni, Mahesh Ludhani, Purushottam alias John Wesley alias Babna and Harish Tolani got here to mild.
The resolution got here after 32 years
After questioning the sufferer ladies and figuring out the accused, the police arrested eight accused. The first resolution of this case got here after six years, wherein the Ajmer courtroom sentenced eight folks to life imprisonment. After a while, the courtroom diminished the sentence of 4 accused. They had been sentenced to 10 years in jail as a substitute of life imprisonment. After this, the Rajasthan authorities challenged this order within the Supreme Court, which was rejected by the courtroom. After an extended wait of about 32 years, lastly the culprits on this heinous crime had been sentenced, which the households of the victims had been ready for a very long time. Holding 6 out of the remaining 7 accused responsible, the Special Court of Ajmer sentenced them to life imprisonment and a fantastic of 5 lakh rupees.
