‘The men caught me and beat me up. One man then raped me. The others were throwing stuff out’
AGE
Married with daughter
DISTRICT
Dantewada
ACCUSES
SPO Joga of Seesod village
I HAD BEEN married only a month when the Salwa Judum men raped me. This was two years ago. My husband was home. It was about 9am. My mother-inlaw was still asleep.
I was winnowing rice just outside my house, and that is when I saw a force of uniformed men approaching our house. They were in green fatigues and carrying guns.I ran to my mother-inlaw and shook her awake.
My husband was inside eating breakfast. The SPOs had once before caught my husband, so I told him to run away to escape the force.
The uniformed men came and caught me and started beating me up. One of them asked me for the house keys.
I opened the house for them. They tore up the sack which held the rice. One man held me. He then took me inside the house. The other men began throwing stuff out of the house.
One man then raped me. He is known as Joga of a village named Seesod. I can identify him. My mother-inlaw had run away by now. They ransacked the house and took my mother-in-law’s money. My husband returned at night. I told him I had been raped. We did not go to the police. The next day my mother-in-law took me to the hospital at Dornapal.
I told the doctor I had been raped and I was in terrible pain. I don’t know what the doctor said. I don’t know what my mother-in-law paid him as fees.
