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IndiaFM News Bureau, October 27, 2006 - 09:07 IST
Kajri was born in village Kadrava, from Bikaner
district of Rajasthan. She was a simple but vibrant
child and everyone in her village adored her. Her
birth had brought good luck and happiness to the
village. As she grew up into a vivacious and beautiful
teenager, her troubles started.
The young roadside Romeos and Ranjhas in the village
longed for and lusted after her. Things come to a boil
when one of the ruffians, a modern day incarnation of
Ravana, spreads the falsehood that he has had physical
relationship with Kajri. This creates a stir in the
sleepy village and Kajri's name and reputation is
tarnished. The matter is finally brought before the
village Panchayat which treats Kajri as the one in the
wrong. Finally, the Panchayat, after much
deliberation, puts the onus of proving her innocence
on Kajri and suggests a way to do it.
Kajri has to take the 'Agni Pareeksha'. She has to
walk through fire in nude in front of the Devi Mandir.
If she is innocent, nothing will happen to her by the
grace of Devi Maa. If she has sinned, she will be
burnt to ashes. Even otherwise a woman of loose morals
has no right to exist.
Before the Panchayat's bizarre edict could be
executed, a city based NGO intervenes. It advises the
Panchayat to desist from doing something that may
subject them to criminal proceedings and go for a
medical examination of Kajri instead to determine if
she has sinned or not. Villagers agree and Kajri is
taken for a medical examination to prove her
innocence.
As Kajri is forced to seek the certificate of high
moral standards from a doctor, she goes through a
living hell.
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