24-year-old Anandidevi Saday of Musahar community of Jagatpur Donwari tol of Navrajpur rural municipality-3 of Siraha, who has been searching for justice in the sexual abuse case for four months, was found hanging dead in her house at 3 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon. But after examining the events before his death, it has been found that the rule of law has been disturbed.

On the 9th of January, it was 11 o'clock in the morning. She went to meet her elder sister who lives in Bariyarpatti Rural Municipality-1, Nargi. While she was walking towards her destination, local 32-year-old Shyamsunder Yadav and 22-year-old Sanjeev Kumar Yadav surrounded her and tried to gang rape her by dragging her to the mango garden near the village pond. Anandi ran away crying and came home. 

After telling about the incident, mother Biltoun Saday informed Anandi's husband Umesh Saday of Barchba in Naraha Rural Municipality. On the same day after Umesh's arrival, they went to the local police office, Maheshpur Patar and filed a complaint under the heading 'forced industry'.

However, after reporting to the police, instead of proceeding with the process of legal action against the accused, it has been found that an attempt was made to settle the incident in the village by making financial transactions. It has been revealed that not only the accused, the relatives of the accused and the locals but also the police are involved in trying to settle the incident in the village.

According to mother Biltoun, on the morning of the incident, the accused Sanjeev's father Upendra Yadav and Shyamsundar's father Shivdutt Yadav, along with local Narendra Yadav, who is also a government teacher, reached her home on the morning of the incident. Biltoun told Kantipur that they would come to their house and take two lakh rupees from their daughter and themselves and Nami would file a case on the contrary.

'They pressured me and my daughter to stay in the society, they will accept two lakh rupees,' Biltoun told Kantipur, 'but I said that I am not hungry for money, I will fight for legal action.' According to police sources, relatives and some locals from the victim side reached the District Police Office, Siraha on the third day of the incident and met the then Chief of Police, Superintendent of Police Ramesh Pandit.

The victim's family says that after the perpetrators reached the district police, they were repeatedly called to the area police office, Maheshpur Patar, and the police pressured them to cooperate with financial incentives. "The police in the case area told us that you are poor, where do you get the money to fight the case, no, you will get the money," said Biltoun.

However, when they did not agree, Biltoun says that after the police registered the case, the accused would flee to India and they would not be able to catch them. After that, she said, "How come we want justice, don't we respect the dignity of the poor?" and then the police proceeded with the case process, she said.

On January 4, about a month after filing the complaint, the police called the victim's family and gave them compensation for the complaint being registered. In the compensation found by Kantipur, it is mentioned that "Case number 40 was registered in the crime registration book of this office dated 4th January 2081". The name of the police officer who registered the complaint has been written as Police Constable Manoj Kumar Yadav.

Biltoun said that the next morning, the victim's family was again called and abused by the police, who tore the compensation. After that, saying that nothing can happen now, the police asked them to take some money in the village and settle it, says Biltoun. "When we did not agree, the police tried to trick us many times, but we did not agree," she said.

Chief Police Inspector of Maheshpur Patar Police Ravinraj Mainali claims that the case had to be canceled as the district had ordered to proceed only after further investigation. "Even though there was another order from the district, the district police registered the case without knowing it," said Mainali, "so it had to be canceled." He also claimed that no one pressured the victim to meet in his office.

After the police canceled the registered case, the families of the victims who were detained in Bilkhaband appealed to the Dalit leaders . The police, who were hesitating to register the case even when the Dalit leaders took the initiative, finally registered the case on February 25 after a press conference warning.

Siraha District Court issued an arrest warrant on February 26. But they have not been arrested yet. Biltoun says that till Anandi's death, they used to appear in the village from time to time and even after giving notice, the police did not catch them.

But Siraha police chief Anantaram Sharma says that there is a problem in catching the accused as they fled to India. "It is said that they fled to India after the case was registered, we are looking for them, they will be arrested," he said.

Lately, husband Umesh had stopped speaking with Anandi because of this quarrel . Anandi says that even after going to the police many times, he is not ready to get justice. Because of this, recently Anandi was going through mental stress . She has a two-year-old daughter.

Ward president Vanshilal Yadav says that the police were very rude in this incident and even though he took the initiative as a public representative, the police did not listen. "The police have been very rude in this incident," he told Kantipur, "As a representative of the people, I tried to take the initiative, but the police did not listen." Dalit leader Manoj Kumar Paswan has demanded that the police officer involved in the incident should be immediately suspended and an investigation and action should be taken.