J'khand Guv to bear expenses of handicapped rape victim's son

Jharkhand Governor Droupadi Murmu today decided to bear the expenses of education, health and other needs of the son of a rape victim, who reportedly subsists on a meagre allowance for the handicapped of Rs 400.
Murmu told her decision to Chief Minister Raghubar Das when the latter called on her at Raj Bhavan to apprise developmental programmes of his government.
The governor said she was deeply hurt after getting information about the handicapped rape victim's sufferings at Gudabandha in the state's East Singhbhum district, a Raj Bhavan release said here.
Terming such incidents as inhuman and condemnable, the governor said she would bear the expenses of the victim's son's education, health and other needs, the release said.

It said the Deputy Commissioner of East Singhbhum was asked to get details of the victim and her son.
Murmu also told the Chief Minister there was institutional provision to look after such victims and initiative should be taken by the government so that they could get housing, food, education, health and other requirements, the release said.

The Governor's decision came after a Hindi daily today published the plight of the handicapped woman and her three-year-old son.
The report quoted the woman saying she had filed an FIR on July 22, 2011 with the Gudabandha police station that a Maoist, Gulachh Munda, had raped her and she got pregnant.

The police took her to a hospital in Jamshedpur where she delivered the boy.
The report further quoted her saying that despite the police promising her Rs 50,000 as assistance, she got only Rs 10,000 and now she could not look after her child and intended to give him to an adoption centre or to any individual for adoption.
According to the report the Maoist has since died.