Rescue & Actions by Snehalays

Monday, July 07, 2008

Saved Life raised serious questions in front of Ankush

Ahmednagar, Date: July 2, 2008

Ankush Shahadev Vighne is 16 yrs old and belonging to a family of landless laborer of Anandgaon Village of Shirur Kasar of Beed district, about 138 km away from here. After passing the 10th exam he needs the money for further education which his family could not spare. He joined a powder coating unit at Ahmednagar 4 months ago. Two of his elderly collogues forcibly doing unnatural anal sex with him, when he refused a pipe of compressor was plunged in his ass and his big intestine was blasted when the compressor machine was started. He was admitted in hospital on 16th June, he was unconscious for eight days. Then he told the horrible story to Dr. Hemant Deshpande, a surgeon, who treated Ankush as charity on request of Childline, and Muktiwahini of Snehalaya.
On first of July our team rushed to MIDC Police station to lodge a complain against four workers and Mr. Ram Raj Rai, the owner of the Rajlaxmi industries. The owner was continuously threating Ankush for not talking about the incident to anyone or he may kill Ankush. Police was not co-operating to victim for known reason. We have to lodge the complaints to senior police officials, Child Welfare Committee and atlast to Media against the MIDC Police station, sheltering the culprits by not registering the FIR.

At last on 4th, July the crime was registered under the clauses 377, 307 etc. 3 persons arrested while the owner two others are absconding. Now Ankush is still in the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital. His survival raised many questions in front of him. When he will be able to live a normal-healthy life? Who will pay the hospital bills? Who will pay the bills of medicine shop? Who will protect when he will be out of the hospital?

Ahmednagar Childline and Snehalaya have declared a charity mission to raise Rs. 50 thousand for Ankush. Snehalaya parivar has initially donated Rs. 10000. The govt. machinery, specially the women and child welfare dept., factory inspector, Child labour dept. etc have shown apathy about the serious incident of child sexual abuse. No one has yet met Ankush besides the requests.