Dear Friends,
Peoples’
Vigilance Committee on Human Rights is concerned about the death by hanging of
Mr. Suresh Chuahan & Mr. Ramji Chauhan of Varanasi under section 302, 307
and 449. This is MERCY PETITION to the President of India to save the lives of these
two people. Please write to the Hon’ble President of India (presidentofindia@rb.nic.in) and
also ask your friends & colleagues to do so.
After
declaration of death punishment, the family members and relatives of the victim
become isolated from society. They acquire stigma for rest of their lives and
may be even boycotted by the society. Once the death punishment is declared,
the rest of the life of the accused becomes full of fear and he dies every
moment thereafter.
Case Detail: My name is Usha Chauhan, aged 45 and I am an illiterate. My husband Ramji Chauhan is at the Naini jail as murder accused for the past 16 years. He used to sell balloons for livelihood and after him I am making paper toys with the brother of my husband to earn the daily bread. My two daughters Gudia 19 years and Jyoti 17 years read in the nearby government school in class 8. I live at the address 58/126 B Nawapura, Maidagin, police station Kotwali district Varanasi.
Two days before on February 15, 2013 I got to know that my husband has
been pronounced death penalty and the news has shaken my world. For the past 16
years I have been living on the only hope that one day my husband will get
justice and he will be let off from the fake criminal case. But this news has
brought darkness before my eyes. For the past 16 years we the entire family has
been living with the only hope and even after sleeping hungry we thought my
husband and father of my children will come back one day. The thought that he won’t gives me chills. For the entire night I spent with the fear that having
got to know this my mother-in-law, who is already under depression with her
son’s plight, how would she react and what if something happened to her.
For the past 16 years I have waited and pray every moment. My family has
been with me all these years and all our family members have only one hope to
see my husband back in the family as he was earlier. My daughters also ask
questions about their father and I console them by saying he would return soon.
The god cannot be so bad to us and I plead also to the
government that they listen to my plea and do justice to my husband else people
will lose trust in law and justice.
In fact I was unaware about all this and never thought such an incident
will happen with my family. The date was October 6, 1996 and on the third day
of the Jutia festival. I woke up for nature’s call and it was 5 am when police
in large number came to my place. I thought it must be some incident in the
neighbourhood. Just as I thought all this the cops moved towards my house and
asked for my husband who had medicine last night due to fever. The cops said my
husband was involved in the murder of the family of his brother-in-law and took
his away. When we told them that he met an accident and had fractured leg six
months before, how could he be involved in murder the cops said they would
leave him after questioning. They took him to Bhelupura police station. They
kept him at Bhelupura police station for the day and then sent him to
Chaukaghat jail. We were hungry for the day and entire night as we could not
even sleep thinking why cops have entrapped my husband in bogus case. Why would
my husband commit a crime like murder and what was his enmity with his the
brother of his brother-in-law. I was thinking why I was not aware of all this
land dispute going on in the family and why my innocent husband was trapped in
it by the police. Brother of my brother-in-law gave money to cops who did wrong
to my family.
Whenever I went to see him at the jail for roughly three years after his arrest
my husband always told me to take care of his mother and our children and that
he would return soon as he had not done any wrong. Having said this he used to
weep and I felt bad to go there as he would again weep. I could meet him for
three years as I could manage to go there with little money I had with me but
now being lodged in Allahabad’s Naini jail it is difficult for me to go there.
Being poor we don’t have enough money to go there. Whenever I had money I used
to go for having seen him once I felt good. The situation at home has turned
bad as majority things have beel sold out to fight his case to get him out of
the jail. If he could come back these articles mean nothing to us. We had been
living with little in the past and so could we do in future for we earn daily
bread.
I am afraid for my husband and my family. All the time I think when he
would come back and live with us. Though I have the family with me but the
company of husband is important in the family as I am tired of doing things
alone and fighting for his freedom. The key and crucial support of my husband
is missing in my life. Due to a bogus case my husband has gone away and this
has imbibed fear in me. When I sleep I get bad dreams. Out of poverty I cannot meet him every day but hope he would
be free one day.
His good deeds give me strength. He thinks for us even being in jail and
for his mother.
Usha
Chauhan testimony in Hindi: http://www.pvchr.net/2013/02/blog-post.html
Ram ji brother says “My mother has
been crying and her condition is bad. We are living under fear with the death
penalty given to my brother. We are unable to sleep, fear is deep in our hearts
and we get bad dreams in sleep. My sister-in-law keeps on crying and her
condition is bad. Same is the condition of sister Parvati who now keep ill
regularly. The entire family is living with fear due to the death penalty. The
entire family is scattered and our economic and social condition has become
worst. We fear for brother and brother-in-law. The death penalty has brought
fear among us and we wish justice be given. We trust god. We have pleaded mercy
with president and trust that innocent person will get help from God.”
Testimony
of Ram Ji’s mother: For sixteen years eyes of the mother are searching
for her son http://www.testimonialtherapy.org/2013/03/for-sixteen-years-my-eyes-searching-for.html
Other relevant information
about case:
Mr. Suresh
Chauhan and his wife’s brother, Ramji chauhan have been accused of murdering
his(Suresh) own brother Mr. Ramesh Chauhan (Younger brother of Suresh) and four
members of Ramesh ‘s family (Wife and three children ) over a dispute over
property belonging to their father Late Mr. Panalal. The Accused Mr. Suresh
however says that his conviction was based on the false evidence of witness
(PW1) Mr. Lalji (paternal uncle of Accused Suresh) who had repented later and
told the family members of Accused Ramji that he (Lalji) would reveal the truth
at appeal hearing in the Allahabad High Court .However four days before the
appeal hearing he was mysteriously burnt to death in his own room. His body was
quickly cremated without any police report or post mortem. Both the Accused
insist that they were taken from their homes and not arrested near Railway station.
The weapons claimed by the police to have been recovered from the house of
Suresh did not match the wounds of the murdered victims described in the Medico
legal report . Besides the manner of recovery claimed by the police was
rejected by the High Court. There are also discrepancies in the FIR, the
Inquest report etc.
The only
person benefiting from the whole incident is Ram Naresh who is the elder
brother of Accused Suresh and Deceased Ramesh. In Childhood Ram Naresh had been
adopted by paternal uncle, Lalji (PW1) who was issueless. Prior to his death ,
the father ,Late Panalal divided his property between Accused Suresh and
Deceased Ramesh only .He did not include the elder son Ram Naresh ( adopted by
Lalji ) since he is the sole inheritor of his adopted father , Lalji ‘s
property . However after the death of the father, Mr.Panalal , the elder
brother Ram Naresh demanded share from his two brothers (accused Suresh and
deceased Ramesh ) which they refused unless Ram Naresh agreed to share with
them the property of his adopted father , Mr. Lalji (PW1). Now with Suresh
convicted to death sentence , Ramesh dead , and adopted father Mr. Lalji (PW1)
mysteriously burnt to death , Ram Naresh is the sole claimant/owner of the
property of late Mr. Lalji and Late Panalal. http://www.pvchr.net/2006/04/campiagn-against-death-penalty.html
Thank You
PVCHR
appeal desk (pvchr.india@gmail.com) 
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