Despite being beaten up by kins cops took no action
Patna: A Russian woman married to Anil Chandra Purve in Bihar is getting a bitter taste of the state’s ubiquitous land disputes among brothers, the violence they invariably generate, and the initial indifference such incidents receive from the state police.
Less than five months after she landed in Bihar to live with her in-laws in Patna, Elena Mayakelva’s long cherished visions of India fell apart bit by bit.
The mother of two and her husband, formerly a cloth merchant in Russia, were allegedly assaulted by his two brothers and their wives over a festering dispute about the family land. Having an FIR lodged with the police helped the couple little, they said.
“It is shocking the police is doing nothing even after I and my husband were attacked at home and lodged an FIR at Patrakar Nagar police station on February 17,” said Mayakelva after meeting Patna SSP Manu Maharaaj.
Disappointed with the police, she informed the Russian embassy in New Delhi and received communication over phone from an official of India’s external affairs ministry, she said.
Mr Purve, who had been living in Russia since 1995 and married Mayakelva there, returned home to Patna in October last. He and his wife were allegedly beaten up by his two brothers — Gyan Sagar Purve and Prashant Chandra Purve — and their wives on February 17 following an argument over the allegedly “unauthorised and fraudulent sale” of joint ancestral land in Darbhanga.
“The police shows no seriousness to the fact that a Russian-born lady is attacked and that it has happened several times in recent weeks. I have earlier complained of such violence to the police, but they simply take no action whatsoever,” said Mr Purve. But police sources said that Mr Purve’s brothers have accused him and Mayakelva, who speaks little Hindi, of assaulting them first.
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