The tragedy of Sarita’s life continues after her death. The two young daughters of the 25-year-old Rohtak resident who committed suicide at the police headquarters in Panchkula on June 9, after allegedly being raped by two policemen, are being tossed around between an orphanage and home as their father has claimed he is unable to raise them.Since July 8, Sarita’s husband Subhash Chander has twice put the five-year-old Muskan and three-year-old Heena in an orphanage at Bahadurgarh, only to take them back. On Monday, it was the second time he took the girls back.Chander claims he didn’t know that the place where he had left his daughters was an orphanage. He says he was advised to leave them there by Deputy Commissioner R S Doon and adds that he had no choice as he doesn’t have any money to raise the girls and the district administration had offered no support. “Nobody is paying any heed to my plight. Everybody wants to take advantage of my situation. The officers do not listen anymore and instead mislead me,” he claims. Contradicting Chander’s allegations, Deputy Commissioner R S Doon said: “We have already deposited Rs 2.5 lakh each for his daughters in the bank as fixed deposits. The money shall be given to his daughters when they attain the age of 18. He is levelling allegations because he wants the money to be given to him. His own parents and in-laws are not on good terms with him,” says Doon.Sarita had gone to plead for the release of her husband, arrested in a theft case, when she was allegedly raped by two officials of the Rohtak Police Crime Branch. In her suicide note, she wrote that she was taking her life as no action had been taken against the alleged rapists. The DC adds that he personally gave Chander Rs 21,000 to meet the immediate needs of his daughters. “I even offered to get his daughters admitted in any of the district’s schools, but he never turned up. One day he came to me and expressed his inability to raise his two daughters. We offered to provide them accommodation, but with his consent and on his discretion. He visited the orphanage in Bahadurgarh and came back to me with a written request for admitting his daughters there. We approved his request and on July 8, he went and left his two daughters at the orphanage. But after two days, he brought them back to Rohtak.”
