UP Parents who attack their daughter for her ambition to study, risk legal consequences
Etah, 09 Aug (HS): A 14-year-old girl in Uttar Pradesh''s Etah district filed a complaint against her parents on Friday, alleging that they assaulted her after she indicated a wish to continue her education. The parents,
UP Parents who attack their daughter for her ambition to study, risk legal consequences


Etah,

09 Aug (HS): A 14-year-old girl in Uttar Pradesh's Etah district filed a

complaint against her parents on Friday, alleging that they assaulted her after

she indicated a wish to continue her education. The parents, Digambar Singh and

his wife Lata Devi, are now facing legal prosecution under Section 75 of the

Juvenile Justice Act (penalty for child maltreatment), they claimed. According

to officials, the crime occurred on July 25 and was reported to the Jalesar

police station in Etah district on August 5. Citing a complaint submitted by

Bhavna Singh, a Class 10 student at Siddhartha Inter College in Jalesar, the

police stated that on July 25, the girl urged her parents to register her in

the school so that she could take the test.

Her

parents refused her request, stating that they do not have the money to educate

her. When she persisted on schooling

herself and her younger brother Ramraj, her father beat her up at home and then

on the Agra-Jalesar Road during the travel, according to the police. They

stated that when a bystander, Ankit Pradhan, noticed Digambar abusing the girl,

he ran to her aid. Ankit Pradhan accompanied Bhavna, her brother, and their

mother to a police checkpoint in Jalesar.

Lata Devi then vanished with her kid and did not return to the police

station for an extended period of time, according to authorities. The

14-year-old girl further stated in her complaint that her father dialed 112 and

provided false information that Ankit Pradhan had kidnapped his wife.

The

14-year-old girl stated that she wants to study and educate her younger

brother. It is my sincere desire to the Justice Board that appropriate

preparations be made for my schooling and that of my brother. And take proper

legal action against my father, Digambar Singh, who beat me and pushed me out

of the house, and my mother, Lata, who abandoned me, she claimed in her

complaint. A complaint was filed in Jalesar, and it has been forwarded to the

Juvenile Justice Protection Board.

Despite being summoned multiple times, the parents failed to appear in

court. Finally, the court named Sudhir

Kumar, the police station's in-charge, as the girl's guardian, they added.

Jalesar

SHO Sudhir Kumar stated that the girl's father is a peon at Siya Devi Degree

College, a chronic drinker, and a quarrelsome individual by nature. Husband and

wife have had a long-standing disagreement, and they now live separately. Some years ago, the wife filed a case of

attempted murder against the husband. SHO has accepted responsibility for the

girl and enrolled her in school so she may continue her studies, as well as

providing books, uniforms, and Rs 2,000 cash for any extra expenditure. SHO

Kumar stated that when the child returns from Noida in a month, attempts would

be made to enroll her in an appropriate residential school such as Kasturba

Gandhi or Sainik Vidyalaya so that she may complete her education even without

her parents.

Hindusthan Samachar / Abhishek Awasthi


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