A retired soldier shot dead the abductor and rapist of his minor daughter near the Gorakhpur civil court on Friday.

Dilshad Hussain (25) had abducted the minor daughter of retired BSF jawan Bhagwat Nishad on February 12, 2020, after which the distraught father lodged a case of kidnapping, rape, and POCSO Act against him. On March 12, 2021 police arrested Hussain in Hyderabad and rescued the minor girl.

Shockingly, the rape-accused Hussain was released two months ago on bail. He was a resident of Muzaffarpur, Bihar, and used to run a puncture repair shop in front of Bhagwat Nishad’s house in Gorakhpur’s Badhalganj area.

On Friday, Hussain had come to the court in connection with the case. At around 1.15 pm, he called his advocate Shankar Sharan Shukla at the civil court gate. However, before the advocate could reach there, Bhagwat Nishad shot the rapist in the head. Nishad was arrested soon after by police.

Such cases of vigilante justice are worrying, but they also cast a spotlight on our broken judicial system where those accused of preying on one of the most vulnerable sections of society – minor girl children – are let off on bail so easily.

Issues that capture the imagination of the liberal elites are fast-tracked and indulged with extraordinary police and legal action. For eg., police undertook inter-state raids to arrest those allegedly linked to the Bulli Bai app, within days of a complaint being lodged. The accused have been denied bail.

But in this case, which seems to be a classic example of grooming jihad and sexual abuse, it took over a year for the police to trace a minor girl abducted from UP and taken to Telangana. And even after the accused was arrested, the judiciary let him off on bail after just 6 months?

We can only imagine the pain that the Nishad family must have undergone in that entire one year their daughter was missing – how helpless the father must have felt, that on the one hand, he spent the best part of his youth guarding our borders but when it came to protecting his own family, the secular Indian state was least bothered. And when the daughter was finally recovered and the perpetrator arrested – he would have felt some relief. But imagine the rage and helplessness that must have coursed through that ex-serviceman when the accused was released on bail? Were some palms greased, or was it the inherent bleeding-heart liberalism of our state?

The ordinary Indian is fast losing faith in the secular Republic of India and its dysfunctional institutions – this truth cannot be hidden behind cliched statements like “the judiciary is the last hope of common man” anymore. The time for corrective action is now.

Update

Certain reports have emerged revealing that Dilshad Hussain was torturing Nishad and his family after he was released on bail in the case last year.

According to the reports, Dilshad Hussain was constantly harassing the minor girl and her father Bhagwat Nishad by showing provocative photographs of the girl. The entire family, unable to handle the torture by Hussain had decided to commit suicide but later dropped the plan. Instead, Bhagwat Nishad decided to wipe out Hussain instead.

This is after the minor girl, seeing the photographs of her wedding with Dilshad, avowed to stay with him forever. The girl was then sent to Naari Niketan by the family who say they were ashamed to even step out of the house.

Last year, Hussain had abducted the minor girl and a case of kidnapping and rape was registered against him under the relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Prevention of Child Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act on February 17, 2020.

About a month after the abduction on March 12, the cops had nabbed the accused from Hyderabad in Telangana. Hussain was jailed for some time but released on bail a couple of months ago. Reports mention that Former BSF Jawan Bhagwat Nishad had planned to gun down Hussain during the previous Court hearing but could not as Hussain was accompanied by a lot of his close friends.

On January 21, at about 1:15 pm on Friday, Hussain in the Court had asked his lawyer Shankar Sharan Shukla to meet him at the gate. Before Hussain could meet his lawyer, Bhagwat Nishad took out his licensed pistol and shot Hussain on the head. The rape accused died on the spot. The former BSF jawan was immediately apprehended by two security guards and the manager of the car parking lot.

According to Dainik Bhasker, the action by Bhagwat Nishad is being supported by many people who have raised several questions on the legal administration and criticized the judicial system.

References:

hindupost.in - HinduPost Desk