1992 Ajmer serial rape of Hindu minor girls.
Recalling India’s biggest rape and sex exploitation scandal.
In 1992, The Serial Rape & blackmail of hindu girls in Ajmer was one of India's biggest cases of religious sexual exploitation.The incidents occurred near Ajmer Sharif Dargha
The investigation of the case was stalled by police under political pressure as the main accused, Farooq Chishtee, belonging to the Khadims of Ajmer Sharif Dargah, was president of the Ajmer Indian Youth Congress. Eventually,18 serial offenders were charged in the court.
Eight were convicted for life and 4 among them were later acquitted in 2001.
The crime was initiated when Farooq Chishti, trapped a girl from Ajmer’s Sophia Girls School, raped her, and took ‘compromising’ images.
Then he used the images to blackmail the girl.
He asked the girl to bring her friends to him or else he will leak her inappropriate images.The girl, was deeply depressed, and had no choice but to lure more of her friends into this. More than 200 girls fell in his trap.
The girls went to the farmhouses right in front of their parents’ eyes, who had no idea of this happening, and were picked and dropped to their home in a car. The girls were photographed while raping, which were used as a tool to blackmail them and keeping their mouths ‘shut.
These girls were not from very poor families, but influential and rich families, many of whom were daughters of serving IPS/IAS officers. The Sophia Girls School is one of the most highly respected institutions in Ajmer, and has branches all across Bharat
It was later even uncovered that many politicians and high-ranking officials were also involved in the acts, and it was becoming more of a localized brothel- the magnitude of which would shake the spine of any proud citizen of this country
It was happening right under their noses, involving innocent girls, sexually exploited and blackmailed.
This could be one of the first cases of ‘Love Jihad’ in the nation.
Their main target were Hindu Girls.
The editor of Navjyoti, Deenbandhu Chaudhary, had admitted that the local law enforcement authorities were aware of the scandal almost since a year before the story broke, but they allowed the local politicians to stall the investigations.
Chaudhary stated that finally, they decided to go ahead with the story because that seemed to be the only way to prod the local administration into action. Finally, the police lodged an FIR against eight of the accused.
Further investigations led to 18 men in total being charged.
According to police investigations, about 6 victims allegedly committed suicide.Many victims were even allegedly blackmailed further by these tabloids and local papers.