Moving ahead, yet miles to go...
MARRIED at 15 and re-married at 20, Madhu is a living human being, who can claim to have faced hell for years.
A resident of remote village in Chitrakoot, the nightmares she faced still bring shudders down her spine when she sleeps.
She had to pay the price of being a woman soon after her marriage. Her husband, like many others was more interested in dowry than the girl he was married with.
She was frequently tortured. Unfortunately, the life did not change even after she became the mother of four kids. Once, she along with her kids was locked inside a room for three days. Little did she know that her husband was hatching a conspiracy to kill her. After three days when she was on the verge of collapsing due to starvation, Madhu’s brother-in-law took her to a nearby well where her husband was waiting for her. Quite mercilessly, she was pushed into the well along with the kids. When all the four little kids died then and there, Madhu was saved by the villagers.
However, it was not the end of ordeal for her. The cruel husband filed a case of murder of kids and attempted suicide against her. She was branded a ‘villain’ and had to face an unending trial. Later, she was sent to jail. Her life would have ended there had a NGO not come to her rescue. This NGO referred her case to Sahyog, another NGO. “When we met her she was in a traumatised state with dishevelled condition,” recalls ” Sister Sheeba of Sahyog.
{{/usCountry}}However, it was not the end of ordeal for her. The cruel husband filed a case of murder of kids and attempted suicide against her. She was branded a ‘villain’ and had to face an unending trial. Later, she was sent to jail. Her life would have ended there had a NGO not come to her rescue. This NGO referred her case to Sahyog, another NGO. “When we met her she was in a traumatised state with dishevelled condition,” recalls ” Sister Sheeba of Sahyog.
{{/usCountry}}“And it was not easy to calm the nerves of a woman who had experienced the heights of sufferings, faced violence, gone through the loss of her children and spent days in jail,” she adds. However, she started recovering and later also showed interest in reading and writing.
She also went to her village once where she found her husband living with some other woman. When this could have shattered her again, she took it positively and expressed her desire to start life afresh. Luckily, she found a life partner in one of the inmates there in jail. At present, she is living with her new life partner.