Campaign against violence against women
Mangalsen's Nirmala (name changed) is 38 years old. He has 3 daughters and two sons. After one daughter got married, he has 2 daughters and two sons. She works day and night for the education and upbringing of those children. Sometimes she carries stones, sometimes she does agricultural work for others and sometimes she sits on the side of the road and grinds gravel. After working twice as much every day, he gets tired. She can rest assured when her husband goes to India for work. But her husband has been at home for a year.
Even though she has bought and brought rice for many nights and days for a year, she has not been able to cook it . The reason, the married husband . When her husband began to beat her every time and behave indecently with her daughter, she repeatedly went to the police to file a complaint. But she never got justice.
Now it is not possible for husband and daughter to live in the same house. After using obscene words and beating the daughters, I forced the eldest daughter to get married at the age of 17 . Miley's daughter went to Bombay with a villager saying she could not stay at home three days ago, she said, "In the afternoon, she spends time doing other people's work". I feel very scared at night . He is tormented by the fear of which day he will kill.'
His complaint is that he endured physical and mental torture many times and did not get justice even when he complained to the police. When he complained to the police, the police sent him home saying, "It doesn't seem like he beat you, nor does he want to kill you, you should get along." He waited on the road again and started beating her," she said, "I appealed to the police to save my life and that of my children. They didn't listen to me even then. The poor don't get justice.' She said that she had no information about the judicial committee that pressured the husband and wife to reconcile when they went to the police office. Now a 16-day campaign against violence against women is going on. At this time, from his local level to other agencies, the campaign is being celebrated with great fanfare. But he is unaware . If there is any event, the women of the village who always go will go. Where can women like me who have suffered and suffered by going to such places and speak! There is no news because she cannot speak," she said.
Meena (name changed) of Kamalbazar Municipality-5 is also suffering like Nirmala . After her husband tried to set her body on fire, she managed to survive. However, the right side of the body was burnt by the fire. She is mentally stressed after her husband starts beating her every day after drinking alcohol. During the period of 1 year, she has gone to the police office more than 5 times to seek justice . She also discovered the way to reach the local judicial committee. But she has not received justice yet.
A year ago, the daily life of the husband who came from India to celebrate Dasain is to drink alcohol and beat his wife and children . He did not go to India again on the pretext of working in the village. They beat me daily and tell me to leave the house. Whose house should I go to with my three children? After the husband starts beating, the mother-in-law also beats . Even if I file a complaint with the police, they will send me a message saying that it should be settled," she said, "There is no one to understand the problem of a woman like me. There is no one to speak for us. What is Day Campaign? Don't even know that .'
Nirmala and Meena are only the representative characters who are repeatedly subjected to violence, do not get justice even when they wander for justice and are unaware of the programs held in the name of women affected by violence.
According to the District Police Office, 129 complaints of domestic violence have been registered in Achham in three financial years. There have been 39 cases in the financial year 2078/79, 53 in 2079/80 and 37 cases in 2080/81 so far. 107 complaints have been settled and sent and only 22 cases have gone to the court process. Most husband/wife issues are there. "They don't want to go to court," said a police officer, "this number shows the terrible situation of domestic violence."
He said that domestic violence is increasing due to still following traditional evil, patriarchal social structure, poverty, illiteracy, lack of public awareness. He said that cases of domestic violence do not come out because of the fear of defamation in the society and in the last case they go to the police .
