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Calcutta, Dec. 20: Yasmin Khatun, the teenager who was abducted from a village in South 24-Parganas and rescued by police from Delhi last week, was today brought to Calcutta by the CID.
But Yasmin (name changed) made it clear almost at once that she did not like being brought to Calcutta and wanted to return to her life in Delhi.
As the Tata Sumo in which she was being taken to the CID headquarters in Bhawani Bhawan left Sealdah station this morning, Yasmin complained about how dirty the city was. She had earlier said she did not want to return to her parents in Balikhali in Kakdwip subdivision.
“Dirty city,” Yasmin said in Hindi. “I don’t like it here. This city is lousy.”
As though trying to disown the life she led before being kidnapped and trafficked to Delhi, Yasmin said: “I have forgotten Bangla and I don’t want to speak that language. Why do I have to? I have no one in Bengal.”
Neither does she want to meet her parents, including her stepmother Johora Biwi who ran from pillar to post to get her back.
In fact, it was the petition that she had filed in Calcutta High Court that eventually led the court to direct the police to produce her by October 1.
The police then swung into action and managed to rescued her from the hideout of a trafficker in Delhi’s Begumpur area.
Today Yasmin said: “If Johora Biwi loved me so much then where was she when I was all alone, crying in Delhi. I have no one here. I don’t have any father.”
Tomorrow, Yasmin would be produced before a court of child welfare committee at Narendrapur where she would make a confessional statement laying bare everything she has gone through: beginning with her abduction and how she was sold off in April 2009 to how she found a “home” in New Delhi.
She will also narrate how, for her, life changed from the drudgery of living in a remote village to the comforts of having an air-conditioner in her room in a Begumpur house.
“I will speak in Hindi and tell them to help me return to Delhi. I have no feelings for my parents here. My papa and mama in Delhi have given me a new life and I just want to rush back to them,” Yasmin said.
No one knows what awaits Yasmin when a CWC court hears her out tomorrow. CID officers, however, have told her that she was likely to spend some time in the Narendrapur home run by an NGO. Yasmin said she does not mind if it is a short stay.
But she laid a condition: “My parents must not come to meet me. Only Tajmera (her younger sister) can come and I will meet her briefly,” she said. “But I want to return to Delhi soon.”
But what’s so special about Delhi, this reporter asked.
“You won’t understand,” she retorts. “The biryani from Karim’s is so good. And so are the people.”
The above is from the Telegraph.
If any proof was required for the adage "Poverty is a disease" it is given above.
The girl, who has been pushed into a life of prostitution refuses to go back to her old life with her parents. When she was taken there she may not have been aware of what she was getting into. She may have been brow beaten in the initial stages to fall in line. But now, having become used to the luxuries the life offers, she is unwilling to go back to her old life.
Society too would not accept.
Her step mother who struggled against all odds to get her back must be shocked at the girls response but then she should accept that she cannot offer what the girl has got used to.
A software professional offers his brains for a sum. The same for doctors, engineers, lawyers who sell the output of their brains for a large sum.
A labourer or worker offers his hands for the service of his employer for which he is rewarded.
This girl and others like her also offer a part of their bodies to service customers for which they are rewarded.
Why do we accept the other services and do not accept this as legal?
No religion allows it and it is called degraded although it is the oldest profession.
It is similar to the second oldest profession, the politician. He too is willing to sell anything including his own wife and daughter to remain in power and make money.
The prostitute only harms herself, if she does not take precaution but the politician harms the whole nation.
Yet, the politician is feted everywhere but the prostitute is despised.
Why?
They are just two sides of the same coin.
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