ranjitjat
March 20th, 2004, 09:19 PM
Noida, March 19
A young man, his wife and a six-month-old baby son had come to stay in Chhalera village about two months ago. Nobody knew anything about them except the fact that the young man was working as a hawker in the area.
The Sector 39 police had been informed on Holi day that a decomposed body was lying in a house. It later came to light that the bodies of a young woman and her baby son were also lying on the first-floor room. All that the police could find out was that Ajay and his wife Mamta, alias Roshni, had come from Samastipur in Bihar about two months ago.
A police team, which was sent there, has learnt the grim facts of the tragedy. Ajay worked as a tractor driver in a powerful landlord’s family of Samstipur. The young man had won over everyone in the family with his behaviour and earnestness. Soon, he and the young daughter of the powerful landlord became intimate as he was always sent out to escort the young girl. Cupid struck!
According to the police, one day the young couple, realising that they could not be united in their village, ran away and came to Delhi. After the search for the couple proved futile, Mamta’s powerful father had got the house of Ajay’s parents burnt down in the village. No one knows what happened to his parents.
After struggling in Delhi for over a year, Ajay had come to Chhalera village along with his wife Mamta. But here too, penury and misery dogged them. By now Mamta, alias Roshni, had given birth to their son. Roshni, who was a pampered child in her father’s house, did not get a square meal, to say nothing of a cushioned bed and other mod cons she was used to. Penury had rendered their daily existence a torture. The child also did not get enough nourishment.
There was no ray of hope for the hapless couple. So, a few days before the festival of colours, Ajay strangled his beloved and his baby son and later consumed a poisonous substance to end his life and join his loved ones in a world beyond. According to the Sector 39 police, the parents of Roshni (Mamta) disowned the body of their daughter.
Even the Samastipur police when asked to accept the three bodies, bluntly said, “They are better off there (in Noida).”
A young man, his wife and a six-month-old baby son had come to stay in Chhalera village about two months ago. Nobody knew anything about them except the fact that the young man was working as a hawker in the area.
The Sector 39 police had been informed on Holi day that a decomposed body was lying in a house. It later came to light that the bodies of a young woman and her baby son were also lying on the first-floor room. All that the police could find out was that Ajay and his wife Mamta, alias Roshni, had come from Samastipur in Bihar about two months ago.
A police team, which was sent there, has learnt the grim facts of the tragedy. Ajay worked as a tractor driver in a powerful landlord’s family of Samstipur. The young man had won over everyone in the family with his behaviour and earnestness. Soon, he and the young daughter of the powerful landlord became intimate as he was always sent out to escort the young girl. Cupid struck!
According to the police, one day the young couple, realising that they could not be united in their village, ran away and came to Delhi. After the search for the couple proved futile, Mamta’s powerful father had got the house of Ajay’s parents burnt down in the village. No one knows what happened to his parents.
After struggling in Delhi for over a year, Ajay had come to Chhalera village along with his wife Mamta. But here too, penury and misery dogged them. By now Mamta, alias Roshni, had given birth to their son. Roshni, who was a pampered child in her father’s house, did not get a square meal, to say nothing of a cushioned bed and other mod cons she was used to. Penury had rendered their daily existence a torture. The child also did not get enough nourishment.
There was no ray of hope for the hapless couple. So, a few days before the festival of colours, Ajay strangled his beloved and his baby son and later consumed a poisonous substance to end his life and join his loved ones in a world beyond. According to the Sector 39 police, the parents of Roshni (Mamta) disowned the body of their daughter.
Even the Samastipur police when asked to accept the three bodies, bluntly said, “They are better off there (in Noida).”