State neglects underprivileged Muslims, despite they are selling their children
A poverty-stricken Muslim woman was forced to sell off her child for a paltry Rs 9,000 to repay her bank loan in Bihar’s Araria district. This shows the State is ignoring Muslims all time backwardness.
On learning about the incident, Freedom Party constituted a fact finding committee to know the pathetic living conditions of the Muslims whose living standards are worse than the Scheduled Castes across India.
The matter was reported to the Police. Police recovered the child from the seller's relative’s house, where he was kept before being handed over finally to a Bengaluru-based issueless woman.The woman was in search of a child and had promised to pay Rs 2 lakh in exchange for the child.
While the child’s parents— Mohammad Haroon and Rehana Khatoon -- are in police custody for questioning, the boy has been handed over to the child welfare committee on Saturday.
Rehana Khatoon claimed that her brother Tanveer sold the child to a co-villager, Mohammad Arif, and paid her Rs 9,000 on Sunday. She told the police that she was not aware of the amount Tanveer had received from Arif for selling her son. Arif’s relatives are claiming he paid Rs 45,000 to get possession of the child.
Blaming her impoverished life for the crime, Rehana was forced to sell her child as she was unable to pay her bank loan of Rs 50,000 due to financial constraints, while the Governments and political parties have no specific agenda for empowerment and socio Economic betterment of the underprivileged Muslims.
She claimed that the bank employees had also started to harass her. She was under tremendous pressure by the pro RSS employees who forced her to pay the installment of the loan which she had taken from a private finance company for the past three months.
The fact finding team member Anand Paswan said that the couple are very poor and they are residing in Pachira panchayat of Raniganj block in Araria district. Gurfan, one-and-a-half-year-old, is the youngest among their children. Gurfan was sent to his maternal uncle Tanveer’s house on Sunday, where he was handed over to Mohammad Arif, a resident of Dumaria. The police timely recovered the child safely from Arif’s house.
Station house officer (SHO) of Raniganj police station, Nirmal Kumar Yadvendu, confirmed to IWP that the child has been handed over to the child welfare committee of the district. The parents of the child have been detained for interrogation. Some other relatives have also been picked up by the police for questioning to ascertain the truth.
Rehana had gone to Arif’s house with Rs 9000 to take back her son, but he (Arif) refused on the plea that he had paid Rs 45,000 for the child. Rehana had collected money from villagers who provided the sum after they learned about the shocking incident.
Arif had taken huge money from a Bengaluru-based woman who wished to adopt a child (as she was childless). Araria is close to the Nepal border.
Child trafficking incidents are a common feature in the bordering districts of Bihar. The tall claims of the Narendra Modi Union Government and Nitish Kumar's Bihar Governments that the living standard of the common and his GDP improved from 2014 is baseless. People should change their voting pattern and cast their respective vote based on performance rather than based on the caste, creed, Hindu-Muslim religion.
A similar case came to light in Samastipur district in 2012 when one Parvati Devi sold her 18-month-old son to clear a debt of Rs 15,000.
Fact finding committee found further shocking incidents. In 2016, Rukmani and Sandeep Meena of a village in Patna district sold their nine-year-old son to a mediator in Indore to repay a loan of Rs 20,000.
