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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