1980 Bhagalpur blindings
The Bhagalpur blindings refers to a series of incidents in 1979 and 1980 in Bhagalpur in the state of Bihar, India when police blinded 31 individuals under trial (or convicted criminals, according to some versions) by pouring acid into their eyes. The incident became infamous as the Bhagalpur blindings. The incident was widely discussed, debated and acutely criticised by several human rights organisations. The Bhagalpur blinding case had made criminal jurisprudence history by becoming the first in which the Indian Supreme Court ordered compensation for violation of basic human rights.[1]
==In popular culture== source-
it all started during 1979-80, when Jagannath Mishra was the CM of Bihar and it would still take another 10 years for Lalu Prasad Yadav to come in the picture of Bihar politics.
this period, crime apparently reached its zenith in Bhagalpur dist. of Bihar. The police were unable to control it as due to lack of evidence the criminals would come out on bail and commit crimes again and again. So police, with assurance of local influential populace
decided to do instant, extra judicial justice in its custody itself. What they did was after arresting criminals they would blind them by pouring acid into their eyes with medical injection. In this manner they blinded as many as 33 individuals accused of various crime
The incident became famous as Bhagalpur Blindings. Well, an imp point to note here is that almost all the victims of Bhagalpur blinding were either OBC(Yadavs) or Mandals(EBC) and the prime accused in this case was DSP VK Sharma, an upper caste police officer. (5/10)
In 2003, Prakash Jha released a film titled Gangaajal, claiming to be based on the Bhagalpur blinding events. But here's a twist, he changed the plot completely. As I mentioned earlier Bhagalpur blindings happened in 1979-80 during the tenure of CM Jagannath Misra
and by that time Lalu Prasad Yadav was nowhere in the picture of Bihar politics. Lalu took over as CM in 1990, nearly 10 years after the incident. Moreover, during 70s-80s, most of the crime bosses were upper caste individuals, for eg., Chotan Shukla, Munna Shukla
..Surajbhan Singh..etc, whereas in the movie, Mr. Jha showed that the mafia boss who controlled all the crime syndicates in the area was a Yadav, called Sadhu Yadav and another most ruthless character in the movie is Sadhu's son, Sunder Yadav. It's also a COINCIDENCE The Bollywood movie Gangaajal is loosely based on this incident.[2]
Amitabh Parashar's documentary "The Eyes of Darkness" was inspired by this incident, documenting blindings as they continue even today.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "CHRJ Bhagalpur Blinding Case". Archived from the original on 29 September 2013. Retrieved 18 April 2013.
- ^ Mujtaba, Syed Ali. ""GangaaJal" Unstitches Wounds of Baghalpur Blinding". Archived from the original on 10 January 2014.
External links
[edit]- "Blind rage and anguish, 30 yrs on", The Times of India
- "GangaaJal" Unstitches Wounds of Baghalpur Blinding[usurped], Syed Ali Mujtaba, Indolink
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