Murder, kidnapping, love jihad, conversion, cattle slaughter, cow slaughter… Mewat, notorious for all such crimes (which is mainly spread over Nuh in Haryana, Alwar in Rajasthan, Bharatpur and some parts of Uttar Pradesh) is once again in the news. Is.
The reason is a report published in Dainik Bhaskar. In this report, two women journalists have come down to the ground and described the reality of the lives of girls living in this area, which people living outside Mewat area cannot even imagine. The report is mainly related to Mewat area of ​​Alwar.
Just think, how does it feel to hear that small girls have to wear masks on their faces to reach the doorstep or girls have to leave their clothes and wear boys’ clothes to go out so that no one can see them and no one can accompany them. Nothing should happen. In broad daylight, girls walk around with their faces covered as if anything can happen if the veil is removed.
This report by Prerna Sahni and Pooja Sharma shows that the silence in broad daylight is the real picture of the area. While walking a long distance in an atmosphere full of fear and restlessness, when the two journalists met an elderly woman, she told that she has four granddaughters in her house but she dresses all four of them in boy’s clothes so that when anyone sees them, they would think that they are boys, they are wearing the same clothes. She comes and goes wearing it.
Apart from this, in the houses that these journalists saw, clothes were found hanging inside instead of being dried in the sunlight. When asked, it came to light that this was so that no one would know that there were girls in this house. You can imagine how much effort the people living in the area make to protect the girls from the outside environment.
It is not that girls do not go out in the areas of Mewat… they do go out but first in groups, second with their faces completely covered. If they have to go somewhere, these girls wait for the tempos which are full, because sitting in an empty tempo girls fear that someone might do something wrong if they find themselves alone.
The situation regarding the safety of girls is such that even when there are daughters within the walls of the house, the men of the house have to stay outside and protect them. Perhaps they feel that if they move away from the door, someone might forcibly enter the house and make their daughters victims. The fear of girls’ safety in the minds of the families is such that they get married before the age of 14 years.
This fear regarding the safety of girls in Mewat region is not baseless. Apart from the local people, the report on the villages of Mewat also contains the statement of former senior medical officer Dr. Ravi Mathur. Dr. Mathur says that more than two hundred and fifty cases of rape came to him in a year. The stories of brutality were such that the beasts did not spare even the animals.
Apart from the doctor, Dr. Poonam Chauhan, Deputy SP (Special Investigation Unit for Crime Against Women in-charge) of the area, said that she has seen more than 70 POCSO cases in just a few months. Deputy SP believes that this situation will not change until the boys are understood and taught and sensitized.
After assessing the conditions of the area, when both the women journalists started moving towards those areas from where the maximum number of rape cases were reported – like Ramdarh, Naugaon etc., then they were also advised not to go there in the dark of night because there The danger is very high.
One can imagine how the villagers would be keeping their sisters and daughters in their house while being so worried about unknown women and how they would be spending day and night worrying about them….
People living outside Mewat may find these things to be an exaggeration or may think that how can all this happen… but only those who are local know the reality.
Condition of Mewat and increasing Muslim population
Read old news to understand the situation in Mewat. This area has not come under discussion for the first time. Its entire timeline is old.
Just by typing the name of the area on the internet, many incidents come up which make one think that what is happening here that instead of decreasing the crimes are increasing… Then look at the demography of this place and the incidents happening in the same pattern. But it is only then that one understands where the problem lies.
If you remember, even in the year 2020, the news of Mewat came into discussion which shocked everyone. At the same time there was a lot of discussion about the population of the area. Concern was raised about how the population of Hindus is decreasing in these areas and Muslims are increasing… Then incidents of conversion, love jihad, assault, migration were revealed.
Report on Hinduless villages in Mewat, Haryana
The investigation committee led by Justice Pawan Kumar had prepared a report showing how Muslim-dominated Mewat was becoming a graveyard for Hindus, especially Dalits. He said that The atrocities of a particular community (majority population) on minorities are so severe that out of about 500 villages in the district, there are 103 villages which are devoid of Hindus. Have been done. There are 84 villages where now only 4 or 5 Hindu families are left.
In the same report, it was told that many incidents of kidnapping, rape and forced religious conversion of women have come to light in Mewat, just like the news keeps coming from Pakistan. Due to these incidents, Mewat was even called Mini Pakistan at that time.
population of mewat
Even today the statistics show that the population of Mewat district remains the same. Population data from the official census 2011 and 2025 shows that the majority of the population here is Muslims. According to Census 2011, the share of Muslims in the population of Mewat is 79.20 percent and the population of Hindus here is only 20.37%.
Some news from Mewat
In November 2024 itself, the police had rescued 100+ cows from the clutches of smugglers. There is a news from 2024 itself which tells how Muslim women beat up Dalits when they filled water from the government tube well in Mewat. Be it the attack on the Jalabhishek Yatra of Hindus in Mewat or the attack on police by Islamic mob… all these incidents have been coming from these areas. Apart from this, many cases of oppression of Dalits will come to light after searching.
In the end, it is absolutely true that the cases of rape in the society will reduce only if there is no change in the thinking of the people, but how this thinking will change in areas like Mewat is a matter of greater consideration.
