Another girl brutally stabbed in city

NAGPUR: Even as the city cops are grappling with the Monica Kirnapure murder case, they have another headache on their hands. The city witnessed yet another shocking incident of stabbing that revived memories of Monica's murder on March 11 and also the prevailing abject disregard for law and order among many.
What was more shocking was the reaction of the police which turned a blind eye to the incident.This comes on a day when state home minister has announced a reward of Rs 1 lakh for any clue in the Monica case.
A 22-year-old girl, from the city's notorious red-light locality of Ganga Jamuna, was stabbed several times by her a man for rebuffing his advances, at her Bhaskar Galli residence on Tuesday afternoon. Her aunt too received injuries on her thigh while trying to rescue the girl.
The girl is now fighting for her life at Rahate Hospital on Central Avenue. In a late night development, the cops made the girl's injured aunty come to police station for questioning.
Though the incident took place at 2.30pm, the cops took no pains to round up the suspect even though everyone in the locality knew who he was. Moreover, the Lakadganj cops registered an offence on an unknown person under section 324 for grievous hurt by a sharp weapon. They, strangely, failed to take the murderous assault into consideration.
Senior PI Pramod Makkeshwar of Lakadganj police station told TOI that he cannot furnish details of the incident as he was heading for a break before his night duty. Sub-inspector KT Kamble said that no one came to the police station to file any report regarding the girl's condition.
Social worker Nutan Rewatkar, who had rushed the girl to the hospital, said that the culprit's name and whereabouts were known to all but it is baffling why there was no action taken against him. "The girl may not be residing in a sophisticated colony but she works hard to feed her three-month-old son and three younger siblings like any other industrial worker living and working in a pitiable condition," she said.
Demanding justice, she said, "The culprit is apparently at Sitabuldi but the cops from Lakadganj did not go there to bring him. It is a sad situation."
Rewatkar said that the family members claimed that the man knew the girl for the last couple of years. He owned a pan kiosk in Sitabuldi. He wanted to marry the girl and live off her income. She had recently become the mother of a bonny boy and wanted to earn money to raise him. She was not interested in a relationship with the man who had earlier too threatened her.
Barging into her room, the man stabbed her indiscriminately. According to hospital sources, Shaila's liver and kidney was punctured and there were wounds on her hands and all over the body. She had lost considerable amount of blood. Doctors of Rahate hospital had to remove around two litres of blood from her stomach.
According to Dr Shrikant Ghodkhande, the condition of the girl, who is on ventilator, is critical. "We need to monitor her for another 48 hours," he said.