Crime Patrol: Latest - Acid attack victim Sonali set to get govt job in Jharkhand (Episode 146 on 24 Aug 2012)

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Keeping the promise made by Chief Minister Arjun Munda, the state home department has completed the paperwork for the appointment of acid attack victim Sonali Mukherjee.

The Dhanbad administration has submitted the detailed report and recommendations regarding Sonali's appointment to the Home department according to her ability and qualification.



"We have sent the recommendation for Government job to Sonali Mukherjee to the Home Secretary along with sanctioning a special pension for her mother," said Bokaro DC Sunil Kumar, in additional charge of Dhanbad Deputy Commissioner at present. "Proper security has also been provided to her family," added Kumar.



Sonali's family had already been allotted a house under Indira Awas scheme by the Government after the matter was highlighted by media.



Depending on her educational qualification and physical abilities, Sonali will be appointed on a suitable position.



The department is now waiting Sonali to submit her certificates and join the service. Currently she is in Delhi for her treatment.



Confirming the development, principal home secretary J B Tubid said the formalities have been completed by the department on directives from the chief minister. Depending on her educational qualification and physical abilities, Sonali will be appointed and posted to a suitable job.



"The department is waiting for Sonali to submit her certificates and join service. She has gone for treatment after meeting the chief minister. The moment she submits her certificates, we will give her the appointment letter. We want to post her at a place which suits her best," said Tubid



Sonali had become completely blind and partially deaf after the acid attack by three youths in 2003 causing serious injury to her face. Since then, she has been campaigning for justice and also met the chief minister requesting for a suitable job.



However, for nine years, justice eluded her and her perpetrators still roam scot-free. Losing all hopes of justice, she had even demanded euthanasia earlier as her family found it hard to cope with her medical bills.



Sonali now wants that no other girl endure a misery like her. "Now that I have regained my energy, I want to meet the newly elected President. My demand is to change the customary section of this crime. Culprits should be booked under more a severe Section (of IPC)," she says.



"I will also ask the President to provide me with a job, so I can support myself and my family, which has lost everything in this battle," says Sonali, who still has a long way to go in her fight for justice.





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Crime Patrol :Give me justice or let me die: Desperate plea of acid attack victim who was left blind and deaf by the three men who had 'sexually abused her' (Episode 146, 147 on 24-25 Aug 2012)

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Sonali Mukherji remembers that April 22 night, the night when everything went dark for her and her family.



Nearly 10 years after being targeted by her jilted “lover” and two of his accomplices, the acid continues to seep into the life and corrode the happiness of the Mukherji family.



Sonali (27), who came to Bokaro on Saturday to seek financial help from the state women’s commission, has been living with a tale of horror.



“The acid attack took away my eyesight. But that was just the beginning of trauma for me and my family. My father Chandidas Mukherjee was employed with a private company in Dhanbad at the time of the incident. He had to quit his job to be by my side after the attack and my family shifted to our ancestral home in Kasmar,” Sonali told The Telegraph outside the women’s commission office in Bokaro.



She quickly added that ever since the attack, she and her family had been living in fear of a rerun of the 2003, more so now with her tormentors out on bail.



“We are scared but helpless. They have threatened to attack us again. My family has sent my younger brother away to live with my maternal uncles,” Sonali said.

The trio — Telipara resident Tapas Mitra, whose marriage proposal had been turned down by Sonali, and his aides Sanjay Paswan and Bramhadev Hazra — had been arrested by the police five days after the attack. They had managed to get into the Bhelatand residence of the girl through the terrace. They fled after pouring sulphuric acid on Sonali, and injuring her younger sister Soma, who happened to be with her. The victim’s father who tried to catch the attackers also suffered burns.



All the three youths were sentenced to nine years of imprisonment by the court of the district and session judge. They later managed to secure bail from the high court.



“I receive Rs 200 per month from the government as disability allowance for being physically challenged. The entire amount is used to buy medicines. The acid was so strong that I still feel pain in my eyes,” Sonali, who suffered 65 per cent burns, said.



She added that apart from her disability allowance, her grandmother received Rs 400 per month as old age pension.



“That, along with the little that my father manages to earn working as a priest, keeps the fire burning in our kitchen,” she said.



The victim, who could not meet state women’s commissioner Hemlata S. Mohan on Saturday, said that she would come back to seek protection for her family later.



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