Abbu (father) Algun Khatoon, 9, recoils in abhorrence aback bodies allocution about her Abbu. Lying in Sitapur commune hospital with her larboard leg shattered, she has been told her ancestor hurled her out of a affective train.
She has been told her ancestor additionally pushed off three of her sisters — Rabia, 12, Muniya, 7, and Shamina, 4 — from the train. She has been told Muniya is dead. Her Ammi (mother) told her all this.
This is the aforementioned adaptation the children’s mother, Afreena Khatoon, 36, has accustomed to altered badge officials. It is additionally her adaptation recorded afore Rupali Saxena, arch authoritative court (Sitapur), on Wednesday.
Afreena says her husband, Iddu Mian, 42, threw four of their bristles daughters off the Kamakhya-Katra Express on the amid night of October 23 and 24. The alternation was casual through Sitapur, about 90 km arctic of Lucknow, aback Iddu allegedly threw his children, who were sleeping, one afterwards another.
Baffled by the case that threw up beginning twists with anniversary casual day, railway badge accept they now accept a anchor on the investigation. They accept agitated their coursing for Iddu, whose corpuscle buzz was aftermost tracked to Jammu.
The antecedent analysis was dictated by Algun’s account. She was the alone adolescent amid the three actual sisters talking to the police.
The saviour
Algun’s adaptation led the badge to book the children’s uncle and his acquaintance in the case. Later, the badge disqualified out both as suspects. Her annual additionally led the badge to initially doubtable the accouchement and their mother were befuddled off the Amritsar-Saharsa Express.
When badge begin a anatomy by the railway advance at Maigalganj in Lakhimpur Kheri on October 25, Algun articular it as her mother’s.
Five canicule later, anybody was abashed aback Afreena angry up at her mother’s apple in Bihar’s West Champaran commune with her youngest daughter, two-year-old Shehzadi. By then, Afreena’s mother, Rabeena Khatoon, 67, had appear to apperceive of her granddaughters’ plight and larboard for Sitapur with neighbours.
Afreena doesn’t affliction about allocution that she came ‘back from the dead’.
“I paid the amount for giving bearing to girls,” she cries in anguish, sitting abutting to Algun on bed cardinal 7 in a chock-full area of the hospital. She is absent of the bodies who army alfresco the bottle partition, accepting heard about the abhorrent incident.
“Muniya died because of me,” she sobs every now and then. “Humka toh pata hi nahi chala kab charo bitiya ka uh fek dehin. Hum to chotki bitiya ki saath doosraka taraf sovat rahi (I did not alike apperceive aback Iddu threw out our four daughters. I was sleeping with my youngest daughter. on addition seat).”
According to Afreena, her daughters were apparently befuddled out of the alternation backward at night — she believes it was afterwards midnight — and none of the co-passengers in the accepted drillmaster noticed annihilation amiss.
At some point, Afreena woke up and apparent her daughters missing. Aback she asked Iddu, he allegedly replied, “Fek diye (I threw them).”
Afreena said alike as abhorrence absorbed her, Iddu added, “Paanch-paanch ladkiyan ko kaun palat aur kaun shadi karawat (who will augment bristles girls and align for their marriages).”
The well-wishers
“He threatened to bandy me and Shehzadi out if I aloft an alarm,” Afreena told HT. She added Iddu’s air-conditioned demeanour and threats affected her to accumulate mum till the alternation accomplished Jammu, area he alone them.
Afreena said she fabricated it aback to Bihar with Shehzadi with abundant difficulty, blind of the fate of her added four daughters.
Afreena said Iddu formed as a labourer in Jammu and alternate to his village, Sarya Kachchehri in Motihari, the address of East Champaran district, a day afore Diwali (October 18). Again he came to see her at her mother’s abode at Jhakra apple in Bettiah, the authoritative address of West Champaran district.
Years ago, aback Iddu larboard Bihar to assignment in Jammu, Afreena and her accouchement absitively to break at Jhakra. “Iddu never accomplished his responsibilities as a father. In the 13 years we accept been married, he neither cared for us nor gave any money,” said Afreena. “This time he was determined on demography me and the accouchement with him. My mother never capital us to go, but he insisted and she relented. I ambition my mother would accept chock-full us from activity with him; chock-full us from boarding the alternation from Bettiah on October 22,” she added.
Afreena’s mother, Rabeena, said she never had aerial assessment of her son-in-law, but did not apprehend him to be a “jallad (evil man)” who “murdered his own adolescent and capital the blow to die too”.
“Hum to uuh jalladwa se poochan chahat hai ki bitiyan ka kahe fekis dis jab aoke paale ke naahi rahe. Hum toh paalte rahni sabka peechle kaeen baras se (I appetite to ask this monster why he did this aback he never did annihilation for them and I was adopting them for years,” said Rabeena.
Body afield believed to be Afreena’s identified
Rabeena and Afreena assignment as acreage labourers and calm helps at Jhakra. Rabeena’s son, Ifthikar Ansari, tills a baby allotment of acreage they own in the village.
Rabeena said the ancestors of three adults and the accessory accouchement survived on Rs 5,000 to Rs 7,000 per month, and generally depended on commons and clothes accustomed by their employers.
Armed with Afreena’s account, government railway badge (GRP) cadre are hunting for Iddu. A badge aggregation accomplished Jammu on the base of his corpuscle phone’s aftermost area but could not acquisition him.
“Our aggregation amid his abode in Jammu, but he managed to blooper away. We will clue him down,” said Ashish Verma, base administrator of GRP (Lakhmipur Kheri), who is investigating the case.
