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Feudal lord chops off labourer’s hand for seeking wage
His left hand was chopped off because he sought three months of wages due to him from his feudal master. Now, Aliyar Rajwar (40) doesn’t know how he’ll care for his eight-member family.
The sheer brutality of the feudal mindset stuns may numb the urban brain, but is still prevalent in some regions of the State.
The tragedy took place on Saturday night at village Sukhnadi, some 40 km from Garhwa district headquarters. Like many of his kind, the lanky and poor Aliyar stands nowhere on the socio-economic index; yet he dared to demand, exasperating his master Uday Yadav.
Yadav, along with henchmen Ramchandra Rajwar, Lalman Yadav and others, brutally assaulted Aliyar, chopped off his hand with an axe and threw it on the nearby railway track in a vague attempt to make look like a railway accident.
Aliyar is now admitted to the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences in Ranchi while an FIR has been lodged and Ramchandra arrested.
Aliyar’s son said, “He had told us that he was going to seek his wages from Uday Yadav. We became anxious when he did not return. Unconscious for a while, he somehow reached home late at night and told us the story.”
Local sources confided that Uday is a small-time landlord who also runs an illegal liquor manufacturing plant, where Aliyar supplied water and wood. Unlettered Aliyar had not undergone any baptism on social justice and not even aware of minimum wages fixed by the Government.
Neck-deep in debt, all he knew was that he had to pay interest to other leaches too. “Malik koi tay majduri nahi hoti hai lekin kam se kam `100 ek din ka to banta hai na? Ghar me paisa nahi aur mahajan sar pe sawar tha, kya karte? Apna paisa manga to maar peet kiya aur wahin mera haath kat diya,” said the stoic Aliyar.
His left hand was chopped off because he sought three months of wages due to him from his feudal master. Now, Aliyar Rajwar (40) doesn’t know how he’ll care for his eight-member family.
The sheer brutality of the feudal mindset stuns may numb the urban brain, but is still prevalent in some regions of the State.
The tragedy took place on Saturday night at village Sukhnadi, some 40 km from Garhwa district headquarters. Like many of his kind, the lanky and poor Aliyar stands nowhere on the socio-economic index; yet he dared to demand, exasperating his master Uday Yadav.
Yadav, along with henchmen Ramchandra Rajwar, Lalman Yadav and others, brutally assaulted Aliyar, chopped off his hand with an axe and threw it on the nearby railway track in a vague attempt to make look like a railway accident.
Aliyar is now admitted to the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences in Ranchi while an FIR has been lodged and Ramchandra arrested.
Aliyar’s son said, “He had told us that he was going to seek his wages from Uday Yadav. We became anxious when he did not return. Unconscious for a while, he somehow reached home late at night and told us the story.”
Local sources confided that Uday is a small-time landlord who also runs an illegal liquor manufacturing plant, where Aliyar supplied water and wood. Unlettered Aliyar had not undergone any baptism on social justice and not even aware of minimum wages fixed by the Government.
Neck-deep in debt, all he knew was that he had to pay interest to other leaches too. “Malik koi tay majduri nahi hoti hai lekin kam se kam `100 ek din ka to banta hai na? Ghar me paisa nahi aur mahajan sar pe sawar tha, kya karte? Apna paisa manga to maar peet kiya aur wahin mera haath kat diya,” said the stoic Aliyar.
