I want to be IPS officer: Minor rape survivor
Ghaziabad: “I want to be an IPS officer,” the 14-year-old Bualndshahr rape survivor told TOI here on Wednesday. She has made friends with two counsellors from an NGO sent by the police and seemed clueless about the ramifications of what she’s been through.
The girl was being forced to cover her face each time a politician entered the house and she was visibly uncomfortable with that.
“We are trying to be empathise with the family so that the survivors feel comfortable enough to share their agony with us,” said one of the counsellors, who didn’t wish to be named.
Among the few people allowed inside the house, there was also a plainclothes police constable in a small room of the house in a Ghaziabad colony where they are currently putting up. There were eye-catching paintings hung on the wall, which the girl shyly admitted to having made.
The elder rape survivor and mother of the girl said she would trust people who are seemingly expressing support to her and her family only when the talk was followed up with action. “All these people will leave after some time. But we want action against all the accused men,” the 35-year old survivor of the Bulandshahr gang rape, who was visibly upset, said.
Alluding to the politics over the gang rape and the attempts by sections of the media to get a statement from them, the woman said she was tired of it all and wanted all the glare of publicity to end. Too hurt by what she and her daughter were going through, the woman said she just wanted justice.
