Incident Reports

Girl gang-raped and murdered for refusing sex proposal

2018-06-26

Sudurpashchim, Kailali, Gauriganga

Maya BK, 21, a girl from the underprivileged Dalit community, grew up fighting with social discrimination and injustice. Despite battling with social barriers and financial strain, she always had her head held high. However, she did not know that her self-esteem and sense of dignity will one day lead to her death. Maya worked as a social mobilizer in Gauriganga Municipality. Ever since she started working there, her co-worker Ganesh Baduwal had his eagle eye on her. On June 22, he asked her to have a sexual intercourse with him. Maya refused his proposal. As per the statement given by Baduwal to the police, she refused to have sex with him saying that he was “a married man and that too from a high caste family.” On June 26, he made the same proposal again and Maya declined this time too. But this time, Baduwal made up his mind to have sex with her no matter what. He planned to rape Maya with four of his friends. On June 27, Maya was on the way to her office on a bicycle but could not reach there. Raped till death It was around 9:30 am when Baduwal and his friends caught Maya on the way and took her to a jungle. They gagged her with a shawl and tied her hands behind with a rope. She was unable to speak. Then they took off her clothes and raped her. As she was gagged, she could not breathe and lost her life. According to Binod Ghimire, Police Inspector of Kailali, the perpetrators had tried to make it look like a suicide by tying the shawl around her neck. Reportedly, Maya had died after three of the boys raped her. As Maya didn’t return home that day, her family members filed a missing report with the police. Though some people kept saying she must have gone to one of her relatives, her family members were not ready to accept that. Later, on June 29, her dead body was recovered from the jungle of Chapathali Community Forest in ward 11 of Gauriganga. Police prepared a list of suspects as per the complaint filed at the Area Police Office. Police arrested all in the list and started the investigation and after a week were successful in identifying the ‘culprits’. The mastermind behind the incident Ganesh Baduwal, 30, along with Manoj Bogati, 27, Suraj Chaudhary, 21, Bhuwan Khati, 20, and Tapendra Bogati, 19, were arrested. A police team led by Hari Oli, a sub-inspector of the District Police Office, started the investigation after the postmortem reports came on June 30. The perpetrators will be punished as per the Civil Code (Muluki Ain). All of them will be sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder, five to seven years in jail for rape and an additional five years for orchestrating the crime in group, according to Inspector Ghimire. जबर्जस्ती करणीपछि हत्या अभियोगमा प्रहरीले कैलालीमा ५ जनालाई पक्राउ गरेको छ । प्रहरीले गौरीगंगा नगरपालिका ११ शिवपुरका ३० वर्षका गणेश बडु्वाल, २७ वर्षका मनोज बोगटी, २१ वर्षका सुरज चौधरी, २० वर्षका भुवन खाती र १९ वर्षका तपेन्द्र बोगटी रहेका छन् । उनीहरुमध्ये गणेश बडुवाल र मनोज बोगटी मुख्य योजनाकार रहेको प्रहरीले बताएको छ । मृतक विक असार ५ गतेदेखि गौरीगंगा नगरपालिकाकी सामाजिक परिचालक थिइन् । हत्या आरोपित बडुवाल र सुरज चौधरीसमेत सोही पदमा कार्यरत थिए । गएको असार १२ गतेदेखि हराएकी कैलाली गौरीगंगा नगरपालिका ११ कि २१ वर्षकी माया विक असार १५ गते मृत अवस्थामा भेटिएकी थिइन् । उनको शव चपरथली सामुदायिक वनभित्र जबर्जस्ती करणीपछि हत्या भएको अवस्थामा भेटिएको कैलालीका प्रहरी प्रमुख एसपी विनोद घिमिरेले जानकारी दिए । उनको हात पछाडि लगेर सुरुवालले बाँधेको र मुखमा कपडा कोचेको अवस्थामा फेला परेको प्रहरीले जनाएको छ । प्रहरीका अनुसार असार १२ गते काम सकेर फर्कने क्रममा जंगलको बीचमा पुगेपछि बडुवाल र चौधरीले मायालाई जबर्जस्ती गर्दै जंगल भित्र लगेका थिए । त्यहाँ पहिले नै पुगेका बोगटीद्वय र खातीले पालैपालो बलात्कार गरेको बयान दिएको प्रहरीले जानकारी दिएको छ । मायाको मृत्यु भएपछि लास त्यही छोडेर भागेका थिए । आफन्तले माया हराएको भन्दै असार १४ गते प्रहरीलाई निबेदन दिएका थिए । update....................................... सामुहिक बलात्कार गरी हत्या गरिएकी माया बिकका परिवारले घटनामा संलग्न भउको आरोपमा पक्राउ परेकाहरुलाई हदैसम्मको कारवाही हुनुपर्ने माग गरेका छन् । बिहीबार कैलालीको धनगढीमा पत्रकार सम्मेलनको आयोजना गरेर उनीहरुले घटना दर्दनाक भएको भन्दै घटनामा पक्राउ परेकाहरुलाई हदैसम्मको सजाय हुनु पर्ने माग राखेका हुन् । माया बिककी आमा देउसरा बिकले भनिन, ‘आफ्नी एक्की छोरीको यस्तो हालत (सामुहिक बलात्कारपछि हत्या) गर्नेलाई राज्यले हदैसम्मको सजाय देओस् होइन भने न्यायका लागि प्राण आहुति गर्नसमेत पछि पर्ने छैन ।’ उनले अपराधिलाई सजाय कम भयो भने अन्य व्यक्तिहरुले समेत यस्ता घटना फेरि दोहर्‍याउन सक्ने भन्दै आफ्नी एक्ली छोरीलाई अपहरणपछि सामुहिक बलात्कार गरी हत्या गर्नेलाई प्रदेश सरकारले नयाँ कानून बनाएर भएपनि फाँसीको सजाय हुनु पर्ने बताइन् । मायाका बुवा हर्कबहादुर विकले धेरै दुःख गरेर भएपनि छोरीलाई पढाएर केही गर्न सक्ने बनाएपनि छोरीको यस्तो हालत गर्नेलाई राज्यले हदैसम्मको सजाय दिएर परिवारलाई उचित क्षतिपूर्तिको व्यवस्था हुनु पर्ने माग राखे । पत्रकार सम्मेलनमा बोल्दै प्रदेश सभा सदस्य टेकबहादुर रैकाले माया बिकको घटनाले आफूलाई स्तब्ध पारेको भन्दै आफूहरु मायालाई न्याया दिलाउनका लागि पछि नपर्ने बताए । त्यस्तै अर्की प्रदेश सभा सदस्य पूर्णा जोशीले सुन्दै पनि आङै जिरिङ्ग हुने एस्ता घटनाले आफूहरुलाई निकै पीडा भएको भन्दै मायाका परिवारलाई धैर्य घारण गर्न आग्रह गरिन् । उनले पक्राउ परेका अपराधिहरुलाई कुनैपनि हालतमा सजाय कम हुने वातावरण बन्न नदिने बताइन् । गौरीगंगा नगरपालिका-११ जरही कटानकी १९ वर्षीया मायाको सामुहिक बलात्कारपछि हत्या गरिएको अवस्थामा गत असार १५ गते शव फेला परेको थियो । उनी असार १२ गतेदेखि बेपत्ता भएको भन्दै प्रहरीमा उजुरी परेको थियो । मायालाई बलात्कारपछि हत्या गरेको आरोपमा प्रहरीले कैलालीको गौरीगङ्गा नगरपालिका-११ शिवपुरका ३० वर्षीय गणेश बडुवाल, सोही ठाउँका २७ वर्षीय मनोज बोगटी, वडा नम्बर ११ ऐठाका २१ वर्षीयसुरज चौधरी, शिवपुरकै २० वर्षीय भुवन खाती र १९ वर्षीय तपेन्ऽ बोगटीलाई पक्राउ गरिसकेको छ ।
Details and Impacts
Violent / Non-violent Violent
Onesided / Twosided Onesided
Collective / Interpersonal Interpersonal
Primary Form Sexual Assault
Secondary Form Murder/attempted Murder
Weapons None
Primary Cause Rape/sexual assault
Actor 1 - Number of people 4
Actor 1 - Affiliations Citizen/Individuals
Actor 1 - Youth unknown
Actor 2 - Number of people 1
Actor 2 - Affiliation (Target) Citizen/Individuals
Actor 2 - Youth youth
Total Killed 1
Female Killed 1
Youth Killed 1
Total Raped 1
Female Raped 1
National/Online Media , INSEC , Local Newspaper - Kailali

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