Minor rape survivor’s mother to don traffic cop’s uniform

Surat: City police in an exemplary gesture to financially help the family of a five-year-old rape survivor have offered a job in the traffic brigade to her 30-year-old mother. Police have already begun the process to recruit the woman whose minor daughter was allegedly raped by a 19-year-old youth in Dindoli area of the city last year.
The woman, who could not complete her graduation because she got married in between her studies, had earlier applied for the job of a traffic brigade jawan. A police officer said her educational qualification was enough for this particular job and that she will soon begin her training as all other formalities have been completed.
“We are trying to give her an indoor job initially unlike other traffic brigade jawans. This will help her to get adjusted to the work and also learn operating computer in the meantime,” said Vidhi Chaudhary, deputy commissioner of police. An indoor job would give the woman enough time to take care of her unwell daughter.
She is likely to earn a monthly salary of Rs9,000. It would supplement her husband’s income and be enough for the family for time being, the police officer said. Her husband, who started working as an autorickshaw driver recently, has again joined his former job as an employee in a textile unit. “We helped the woman’s husband to get his old job in the textile unit. He is getting a reasonably good salary,” Chaudhary said.
The woman had expressed her wish to police officers when they met her during hospitalization of her daughter that she wants to work and earn some money for the family.
The girl was raped by Roshan alias Kalu Bhumihar who abducted her from near her house on September 30 last. She had suffered serious injuries in her private parts and her treatment is still continuing. The minor girl had undergone several surgeries already and is likely to be operated again at a city hospital in a few days time.