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| Does judicial intervention make any difference in JK? | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 27: A `half widow’ has not sought judicial intervention to seek the whereabouts of her disappeared husband because she has no money to pay the lawyer. When told lawyers in Srinagar file such petitions free of cost, Raja turned pale. “How can I face my husband when he returns?”. The questions haunts here. “I have tried my best to trace out his whereabouts. But now it has dawned on me that I have not exhausted all the remedies”, she regretted. The thought perhaps caused a stir deep inside her heart. But does legal recourse make any difference here?
These school rhymes would make them uneasy and force them into isolation. In the evening they would anxiously wait in their dingy one-room-hut for their father who provided succor to them by working as a laborer. One evening their beloved father did not return. Little did the two kids know that they were going to be enlisted in the long list of `half orphans’.
On a pleasant April morning of 1998, Raja’s husband Wali Muhammad Dar, 35, left for the bus stand at Sopore (a famous town in Baramulla district known for its delicious apples). This is where Wali earned a living. He was taken into custody by men in uniform in presence of scores of witnesses for unknown reasons. This was the last time he was seen. Like many others, he too disappeared.
Raja, searched for her husband in all jails and detention centres across the state. Much to her shock the security agencies denied Wali’s arrest. The police refused to register an FIR on the pretext that there was no witness to his arrest. Her visit to the then SSP Baramulla bore no fruit. However, he gave her a patient hearing and promised help.
She has earned respect in her locality for all the hard work she has been doing to keep the family together. But her kids could never go to school. “My parents are poor. They cannot afford the schooling of my kids”, Raja said. The kids have now come of age. They hold their mother in high esteem. “She has sacrificed her youth for us. We shall try our best to offer solace to her”, they said.
Raja believes her husband is alive and may return some day. “He was a God fearing man and would help people. A person like him cannot meet such a fate”, she said.
Raja has never thought of second marriage. Instead she concentrated on her kids. “My husband is alive and will return some day. The question of second marriage, therefore, does not arise. I am waiting for him”, she said.
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