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Human Rights Cause. We are proud of all members that actively participated in
Kanchan-Mishra-Email-Campaign.Bihar times Reported on today:
"A sustained campaign by different organisaions have
finally forced National Commission For Women (NCW) to take cognizance of
forcible marriage of Kanchan Mishra with a notorious criminal, Sultan Mian,
in Patna. A five-member team in the leadership of Purnima Advani chairperson
of the commission arrived here today and tried their best to know about the
incident from different sources."
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National Commission for Women start probe of Kanchan Marriage
Bihar Times (December 16, 2002)
A sustained campaign by different organisaions have finally forced
National Commission For Women (NCW) to take cognizance of forcible marriage
of Kanchan Mishra with a notorious criminal, Sultan Mian, in Patna. A
five-member team in the leadership of Purnima Advani chairperson of the
commission arrived here today and tried their best to know about the incident
from different sources.
The younger brother and the mother of the victim came to meet the team and
denied in front of the media that it was a forcible marriage. Some media
persons who earlier met them told Bihar Times that they were so terrorised
and can't muster enough courage to tell the real story. The local police has
taken its typical old fashioned line that they are unable to act in absence
of any formal complaint lodged with any police station.
While local sources describing this incident said the victim who was
working in a beauty parlour was forcibly lifted from her Mainpura residence
in broad day light and taken to a local mosque for nikah ceremony. After
nikah a lavish reception party was organised at the residence of RJD's state
minister Ejazul Haq. And much to the surprise the officer incharge of local
police station was also present in the party. Initially her family members
asked for help from local police but no one came to their help because don is
close to RJD MP Shahabuddin and some other political leaders. Despite media
coverage no one in police bothered to locate Kanchan Mishra. Where are state
women commission, women activists, state women cell of police. No one came to
her rescue though some of them have taken it lightly as this was her third
marriage--- Does any lady loose her dignity of being human after failure of
her first or second marriage??
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