A video of a woman being made to clean a blood-soaked hospital bed in Madhya Pradesh’s Dindori hamlet has now gone viral. The woman was made to clean the bed on the same evening her husband was killed by a mob of 20-25 people.
Roshini Marawi’s husband, Shivraj Marawi (40), his brother Raghuraj (35), and father Dharam Singh (65) were killed by the mob on Thursday, October 31, over a land dispute. As per the police, the people in the mob were armed with sticks, rods and sickles, The Indian Express reported. The mob, which included some of the victims’ relatives, killed them over a land dispute while they were harvesting paddy, police added.
Another one of Shivraj’s brothers Dharam Singh (28) is critical. Four people have been arrested and efforts to nab the others are underway.
“We had grown some dhaan (paddy) on the disputed land… They turned up with axes and cut down my husband. We were supposed to celebrate Diwali together; the clothes he bought for his daughters are still unopened,” Roshini said.
She and her two daughters looked on as Shivraj collapsed before them. Roshni said she made frantic calls to the police, but no one from the station arrived in time. Hours later, she went to the Gadasarai Primary Health Center.
“My two daughters kept asking for their father, but his face was so badly mangled that they could not recognise him. I sobbed next to his body… then, I was asked to clean a hospital bed where my brother-in-law (Raghuraj) had died. I did not think much back then. I only feared for my safety as all the men in our family were dead. Only the women are left,” she added.
Made to clean hospital bed
After the video of Roshini cleaning a blood-soaked hospital bed went viral, the Dindori administration took action. On Saturday, the Chief Medical and Health Officer of Dindori issued orders to transfer the attending doctor, Chandrashekhar Singh, and suspended two nurses, Rajkumari Markam and Chhoti Bai Thakur.
Singh claimed that Roshini was never asked to clean the bed and that she had done that voluntarily. “The men were shot at during a land dispute on Thursday and two of them were brought to our facility. The wife of the man who died asked us to let her wipe the blood from the bed with a cloth so she could use it as evidence of the extent of the bleeding. She was not asked to clean the bed. I have not received any complaint from the woman or her family,” he said.
Roshini, however, claims otherwise. She said that two women at the hospital asked her to clean. She added that she did not realise what she went through in that place till later when she went home and saw the video had gone viral.
“I later watched that video and can’t believe what I went through… I don’t remember much, everything is a blur. I went back home and saw that the video had gone viral,” she said.