"It was in the same lane that he used to live," the woman told TOI on Thursday, looking for words to articulate her trauma. "Woh mujhe chachi bulata tha. (He used to call me aunt). My husband asked me to remain quiet about the rape as it would bring shame to the family. He stopped me from going out of my house."
She wasn't the only one, it seems, who kept quiet. A TOI team met two others in the village, each with an equally horrifying story of abuse at the hands of Yadav, now in judicial custody. Yadav had raped one more woman, who left Ramnagar unable to deal with the social stigma. That had happened in 2003 and the woman had even filed a case against Yadav.
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So far, Yadav has been accused of rape by six women, including a Gurgaon bar dancer in 2011 for which he spent seven months in jail before a settlement was reached.
"I am happy that he has been booked, but people in my neighbourhood for long called me characterless," the 46-year-old woman recounted, surrounded by villagers in her house. "And it has gotten worse after I told my story to the media." Even as she said this, her husband appeared out of nowhere and slapped her into silence. "Tu kitni naak katayegi? Moonh band nai rakh sakti? (How much shame will you bring us, can't you keep quiet)" he screamed, pushing her into the small shop they run from the house, selling soaps, namkeen and paan masala to earn a livelihood.
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Supporters of AAP shout slogans as they participate in a candle light vigil during a protest against the rape of a female passenger, in New Delhi. (Reuters Photo)
Chandramukhi (name changed) said though she didn't run away, she didn't speak up either. "But now I will," she said, covering her face with her ghoonghat. From Nagla Taar village, close to Ramnagar, she told TOI, "It was in August 2013 that I was raped at gunpoint by Shiv Kumar Yadav. Police took the matter casually and refused to lodge an FIR, but my husband supported me and we managed to report the case."
Talking about the horror of that night, Chandramukhi, now 32 and married 17 years ago in Nagla Taar, said, "I had gone to the dumping ground nearby to throw garbage. He confronted me there and choked me so hard that I could not cry for help. He then took out his gun and threatened to kill me if I didn't remain quiet. He raped me, took away my earrings and pendants, pulling them hard, which left me injured. He said, 'Don't you dare tell anyone'."
The third woman in the village to speak up was a 23-year-old, whose story perhaps is the most heart wrenching. She was 18 and in the first year of college when she was raped. She soon discontinued her studies and her father got her married in another village. "It feels like you don't have any rights at all, like you just have to float through everything that is heaped upon you," she said, sobbing.
Villagers, however, said there might be more horror stories yet to be unravelled.
Read this in Hindi: शिव कुमार ने अपनी 'चाची' सहित कई महिलाओं से किया था रेप
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