![]() The comparison with the death camps is not so far-fetched as it may seem. Some British soldiers and journalists who had witnessed the Nazi death camps claimed Partition’s brutalities were worse: pregnant women had their breasts cut off and babies hacked out of their bellies infants were found literally roasted on spits.”īy 1948, as the great migration drew to a close, more than fifteen million people had been uprooted, and between one and two million were dead. Nisid Hajari, in “Midnight’s Furies” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), his fast-paced new narrative history of Partition and its aftermath, writes, “Gangs of killers set whole villages aflame, hacking to death men and children and the aged while carrying off young women to be raped. Some seventy-five thousand women were raped, and many of them were then disfigured or dismembered. In Punjab and Bengal-provinces abutting India’s borders with West and East Pakistan, respectively-the carnage was especially intense, with massacres, arson, forced conversions, mass abductions, and savage sexual violence. Many hundreds of thousands never made it.Īcross the Indian subcontinent, communities that had coexisted for almost a millennium attacked each other in a terrifying outbreak of sectarian violence, with Hindus and Sikhs on one side and Muslims on the other-a mutual genocide as unexpected as it was unprecedented. ![]() Immediately, there began one of the greatest migrations in human history, as millions of Muslims trekked to West and East Pakistan (the latter now known as Bangladesh) while millions of Hindus and Sikhs headed in the opposite direction. The police said they haven't given a clean cheat to the suspect brought for investigation.In August, 1947, when, after three hundred years in India, the British finally left, the subcontinent was partitioned into two independent nation states: Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan. ![]() All the investigations and statements have established the death occurred on December 27, we are yet to get more evidence corroborating it and who supplied the cutter and knife to Rimple,” said DCP (Zone 4) Dr Pravin Mundhe. “We are waiting for the detailed post mortem report which could throw some light on how she (Veena) actually died. ![]() The investigation has hit a dead end as it is tough to prove whether the fall was an accident or intentional push by Rimple, as there are no witnesses. Rimple claimed she panicked as relatives would blame her for the death and decided to hide it from them,” the cop said. The investigation revealed that after a while Veena passed away. “Rimple claimed a worker from a Chinese hotel in their building saw her and called his two colleagues to take Veena home. When she didn't find her at home she went to check on her and claimed she found her fallen on the road,” said a police officer. She maintains she was asleep when her mother fell down early on the morning of December 27, 2022. “She is stubborn and firm on every word she said since the beginning of the investigation. Rimple has maintained in her statements that she didn't kill her mother. We need to question him at length,” said a police source. It is still premature to comment whether he knew about the death or dismembering of the body. He went to his hometown on January 7 and was in touch through phone calls till March 7. “The suspect runs a sandwich stall in Lalbaug and was in touch with the accused. However, they are yet to establish his role in the case. The Kalachowkie cops have also brought a 27-year-old suspect from UP, and questioned him at length. The police are yet to come to conclusion whether the elderly woman died due to an accidental fall or was pushed by Rimple. “I panicked as she died due to the fall, but thought relatives would blame me for it, so in haste I decided to dispose of the body,” 24-year-old Rimple, said during interrogation.Īlso Read: Mumbai: ‘Why I suspected my niece, went to cops,’ says Lalbaug murder victim’s brother Suspect questioned Rimple, who has allegedly murdered her mother, has said that she panicked. We told this to Rimple and asked whether she wanted to take her to a doctor or hospital, and also asked her to inform her relatives, but she refused and shooed us away. “But when we took her home, aunty wasn't breathing. Rimple Jain is taken into police custody on Tuesday night.
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