The Weekly Observer Vol. 13 Issue 2A

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Observer The weekly

VOL 13 ISSUE 2A

Thursday, September 5, 2013

Beggars back on road after year’s training at Beggars Colony Page 5

Businessman booked in bonded labor case roams free Page 3

Chitra Arvind speaks to The Weekly Observer Page 6

Raped by her own uncle, pregnant at 13

Meera, the 13-year-old girl raped by her uncle, attending a religious function in happier times Anannya Sarkar

Meera’s mother Nita, recounting her daughter’s horrific story

pregnancy. She lived in a city slum

near a government school in Ulsoor

about three to four times, always

saying that he would slash his

13-year-old girl was

with her mother, father and her six-

where Meera studied in the eighth

when she was alone, and sexually

wrists and blame her father in front

raped by her uncle and

teen year old brother. Her father is

grade.

abused her.

of the police or would kill her par-

is now six-months preg-

a waiter in a local hotel while her

A nant.

Meera (name changed), a resi-

mother makes chips for a living and is a domestic worker.

Exclusive

According to the First Infor-

ents. He also said that he would kill

mation Report (FIR), the last time

her by hanging her from a ceiling

In her statement to po-

she was abused was on March 1

fan, before telling police she had

dent of Banaswadi, told police in

The girl’s uncle visited Meera’s

lice, Meera said her uncle had taken

when Navaneeth went to her house

committed suicide. Meera told po-

her statement that she was sexually

house under the pretext of return-

her to his house but after she began

in the afternoon and asked her to

lice she was too frightened to say

abused by her uncle Navaneeth. She

ing money to her father, which he

shouting, he was forced to let her

‘sleep’ next to him. When she re-

anything to her parents.

is now in her second trimester of

had borrowed. Navaneeth lived

go. After that, he visited her house

fused, the accused threatened her,

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