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| Does legal recourse make any difference here? | | A half widow, her kids | | ET Report
SRINAGAR, Aug 30: Yes they did play with other children of the locality. But unlike rest of them they did not know that Jack and Jill had went up a hill. They did not know that Johny consumed sugar and lied to his Papa. They also did not know that the Black sheep had three bags of wool. 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, 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. Eyewitnesses say he was arrested but all security agencies denied his 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.
The two 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.
Raja has earned respect in her locality for all the hard working she has been doing during the past one decade to hold her family together. However, she has regret. "I could not seek legal assistance to trace out my husband. I had no money to pay the lawyers", she lamented.
When told lawyers in Srinagar did not charge any fee for such cases, Raja started biting her nails. Two pearls rolled down her cheeks. She looked at the horizon and was soon lost in deep thoughts. "How would I face my husband when he returns?" The thought perhaps caused a stir deep inside her heart. But does legal recourse make any difference here? |
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