On the morning of July 19, a disturbing incident to set a college girl on fire found fire in the village of Bayabar in Odisha’s Puri district. Around 8:30 a.m. the girl was on her way to a friend’s house when three bicycle men with partially covered faces grabbed her. They dragged them to the banks of the Bhargavi River and pulled them on fire.
What makes the incident even more alarming is that he only appeared 1.5 kilometers From a local police station. The incident occurred within a week if A College students in the Balasore district have set on fire on July 12th. According to reports, the student had reported a complaint about sexual harassment against a faculty member that was ignored. She died two days later, on July 14th.
Also with unthinkable horror, do not give upPresent She decided to run
The girl somehow managed to flee and ran through the neighborhood, even when the flames burned her skin. Her hands were tied and her mouth was gagged, but she kept ran in the hope of finding help. The person named Dukhishyam Senapati who helped her said NDTV that ”The girl burned When she ran to my house. Her hands were bound and she had suffered serious burns. My wife, daughter and I poured the flames over and gave her new clothes. Then I spoke to her. She told me that she lived in a nearby village. ‘He continues to add: “We didn’t hear anything. She was gagged and her hands were tied. She told me that three men on two motorcycles violently brought them here, entered kerosene and set them on fire.’
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Dukhishyam Senapati added: She said she was home after met a friend when she was picked up by three men who got on motorcycles. The faces of these men were half covered and brought them to a place near the Bhargavi river bank. She couldn’t say her names. She could only say that she covered her face with a handkerchief and poured some substance before she set her on fire. ‘
”The girl burned When she ran to my house. Her hands were bound and she had suffered serious burns. My wife, my daughter and I poured the flames over.
Dukhishyam was the one who informed her parents and later brought them to the Pipili Hospital, but then she was moved to Aiims Bhubaneswar and finally flown to Aiims Delhi. Almost 70% of their total body surface (TBSA) are covered with combustion injuries. While Dr. Ashutosh Biswas, the executive director of AIIMS BHUBANESWAR, spoke about the severity of the combustion injuries, she said: “In some parts she suffered burns third.”
Forensic clues indicate intent.
The victim’s mother submitted a police complaint and explains that her daughter broke off the school and that her husband works as a motorcycle mechanic. In her complaint, she claimed that there was an attempt to murder her daughter. This could give the case an angle of complexity, which indicates that the murder may have been a targeted act of retaliation or intimidation, which is often seen in the case of gender -specific violence.
The exact motive for the attack is still unclear, but initial investigations indicate that it was planned in advance. Out of The crime sceneThe police recovered a half -filled bottle of kerosene, a matchbox and one of the victim’s shoes. A forensic team has collected rehearsals and other examination evidence. According to a police officer, the criminal offenses may have been aware and prepared for the girl’s movement. We examine all angles. ‘
The waiver of the hospital calculations cannot solve the systemic error
Since the incident, both the district administration and the state government have quickly announced that they will cover the girl’s medical editions. But the question is, can those who are responsible for the security of the citizens really compensate for what happened to this girl by only paying their hospital bills?
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No, you can certainly not undo the negligence of the authorities, and it is not about the paying hospital calculations deals with the deeply broken condition of the security of women. If such a terrible crime can be removed from a police station barely 1.5 kilometers, and if the cases of violence against women continue to rise, the government cannot simply wash their hands of the matter. Especially when such brutality quickly becomes a new normal. This incident is not an isolated decay, but part of a broader industriality pattern, in which rural police stations often lack resources or training to react effectively. Reports from the region indicate that the examined and outdated devices have the law enforcement authorities of Odisha for a long time and that the municipalities are susceptible to such atrocities.
This incident is not an isolated decay, but part of a broader industriality pattern, in which rural police stations often lack resources or training to react effectively. Reports from the region indicate that the examined and outdated devices have the law enforcement authorities of Odisha for a long time and that the municipalities are susceptible to such atrocities.
Only last month, a college girl at the Gopalpur Beach was annoyed in the Ganjam district. Shortly afterwards, another young woman burned herself because she completely lost hope in the system. These cases, although they are different in their details, have a healthy feeling of despair in which the victims feel abandoned by a police and security system that cannot prevent such crimes or act quickly or determined. The incident with Gopalpur, for example, looked the public outrage without significant change.
And now, in this last case, four days have passed without a single arrest. In this situation, the government must take responsibility and act as a determination to prevent such a brutality from becoming the norm. The silence, the inactivity and the delay raise urgent and disturbing questions about the accountability and the value of the life of women in this country.
Outrage is loud, but all parties fail women.
The incident triggered immediate outrage between political parties, with both members of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) and the congress took to the streets. But the bigger question remains: Do these parties ensure the security of women when they are in power? Unfortunately, the answer is no. Whether in the states that are ruled by the congress, BJD or BJP, the safety of women remains alarming.
Opposition protest in Odisha (source: the Hindu)
This should not defend the state government in Odisha led by the BJP, but rather emphasize a deeper, systemic error that cuts across the party borders. If we as a citizen do not come together and lead collective movements, call for accountability, these political parties will continue to use such tragedies for optics without solving the root problems.
Such movements must go beyond the protests and require concrete reforms such as mandatory training for gender sensitization for the police and faster legal processes for violent cases. If you have not taken any sensible measures so far, there is little reason to assume that you will do it if we do not force you.