'Often, I curse my fair skin'
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[March 25, 2006]

'Often, I curse my fair skin'

(The Times of India Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)All I can say is that I didn't actually see money change hands." That first deal may have happened without Rani's knowledge but the next one and the next one didn't. "I knew when the buyers were coming because the beatings stopped.



I was also ordered to dress up. Sometimes, I curse my fair skin. Maybe if I had been dark and ugly..." she trails off.

How did this 20-year-old from Koderma in Jharkhand land up in Gurgaon - from where she was rescued by an NGO and brought to a Nari Niketan? "A broker told my father that he would get me married to a Haryana farmer who had moved to Rajasthan for work.



So, I was first brought to Delhi, and though I did end up in Rajasthan, it wasn't as anyone's wife," she says. "The man (the buyer) told me he was unable to have kids and hadn't been married before. But there was also a bhabhi around whose husband I never saw. It was a strange arrangement."

An arrangement that ended when she was sold for the third time. "I was paraded in front of many men. This one agreed to pay Rs 30,000 for me. They bargained back and forth in front of me," she says.

And did she never attempt to run away? "I thought about it often but didn't know where to run to. On the streets, many men would take advantage of me. At least this way, there was only one."

Rescue took a while coming. Not till neighbours, who had heard her shrieks of pain from the frequent beatings, informed an NGO.

Her trafficker was arrested, but Rani looks askance when she hears talk of justice. "I'm past caring. I have spent more than a year in this Nari Niketan and now, all I want is to be free."

Such is the desperation to get out that she's ready to go back with her father who came to visit her at the women's home. "I don't even know how much my brothers have grown.

I want to see them again," she says, unwilling even to think of the role her father may have played in her trauma. But Rani will have to wait till a court hearing scheduled on April 17. Till then, all she can do is hope that soon someone will come to take her back.

(Victim's name has been changed)

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