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Sunil Gurjar Congress |
Among the many cases that shook the nation was a case of the disappearance
of Bhanwari Devi, a middle-aged woman in Rajasthan in the year 2011. A native
of Ajmer district in Rajasthan, she was born into a family that traditionally
worked as daily wage laborers. Her father was an employee of the Rajasthan
government’s medical and health department. He guided his daughter to enroll
for vocational training in midwifery and as a result, she was employed in the
health department as a midwife auxiliary nurse. During her tenure, she was
acquainted with politicians and bureaucrats and she slowly started peddling
sexual favors in return for a luxurious life.
Her aspirations to rise faster and higher cost her dear, and she
ended up disappearing on the 1st of September 2011. She began posturing and demanding
to be made the nominee of the Congress party for the assembly elections in the
state. When her request was turned down, she resorted to blackmailing a few
leaders of the party with whom she had illicit relations. She was allegedly in
possession of videos which showed the leaders in compromising positions with
her. She demanded huge sums of money in return for not releasing the contents
of the damaging videos. She attempted to get them to pay her by releasing a
portion of the video, which was then aired by a television channel without
directly referring to the politicians.
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Sunil Gurjar |
After the public outcry, the investigation was handed over to the
central bureau of investigation and the then chief minister Ashok Gehlot sought
the resignation of Mahipal Maderna, a cabinet minister who was one of the
politicians who were involved in the sex for favors scandal. The minister
refused to resign and the chief minister sacked him. Investigations by the
country’s premier investigation agency revealed that Bhanwari was murdered
after being abducted with the help of her husband. Prior to being brutally
killed, she had allegedly confided with one Indira who had helped her to make the
video recordings, that she was about to receive a huge sum of 5 crores as
settlement. She went on to claim that one Sunil Gurjar had helped to broker the
deal between her and the politicians.
However, she ended up disappearing on the first of September and
the CBI concluded that she was murdered. Part of her remains was recovered and
the same was sent to the FBI to categorically identify the bones as hers and
the FBI concurred that it was indeed hers. The trial in the case is yet to
conclude for want of witnesses, while all the accused roam free. The accused
are yet to be punished – the politicians who allegedly ordered her murder, the
people who committed her murder, the brokers like Sunil Gurjar who played the role of a middleman, and the accomplices who helped
destroy evidence. This is the sorry state of affairs even in sensational crimes
that shook the conscience of the nation. The politicians and others involved in
the crimes continue to lead a normal life, while the children of the deceased
lead a life of poverty, sustained by little assistance from the government.
The case needs to be concluded quickly and all those who were a
part of the crime need to be appropriately punished. The deterrent nature of
punishment will help to prevent powerful politicians from committing such
crimes and involving in the exploitation of the poor. Additional details of the
case are available in the following authoritative reports in mainstream media.
Reference Links-
- https://hindi.oneindia.com/news/rajasthan/case-cheating-against-sunil-gujjar-adoptive-son-governor-469560.html
- https://m.dailyhunt.in/news/india/hindi/news+view-epaper-newsview/divangat+purv+uparajyapal+govind+sinh+gurjar+ke+dattak+putr+sunil+gurjar+ke+khilaph+dhokhadhadi+ka+mamala+darj-newsid-95227653
- https://www.indiatoday.in/india/north/story/bhanwari-sex-cd-mahipal-maderna-delhi-power-broker-145782-2011-11-15
- https://www.oneindia.com/2011/11/14/cbi-on-lookout-for-bhanwari-devi-cd-distributor.html
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