House No.-16, Road No.-12, Circuit House Area, North West Sonari, Jamshedpur...This address will always be special for me. Memories of that magical place will stay with me forever. This was where i met Loraine, my teacher, my mentor, my confidant; it's where I grew and flourished; and it's where i celebrated my win and cried on my loss...perhaps a part of me will always be there. This is the story of the most magical person of my life, with whom i spend some random moment each day feeling such bubbling mirth that makes me want to throw away my shoes and run on vast grassy stretches filled with flowers and butterflies, and race with the clouds...
This is the story of a lady who lost her everything fighting against odds and goons of society to gain a miserable life. She has great faith in judiciary and that faith only keeping her heart beating somehow... she is holding her last breath away to hear the judge pronounce the judgment. She has been waiting for twenty years, prisoned into the four brick walls of her house, with a forced power cut, without the water supply, under the constant threat of murder. More than half the house is already captured by goons, who keep attacking her with their desi pistols to finish an untold saga. And this all happening under the nose of Jamshedpur police, who act deaf and mute spectator in this case. And media who claim to be fair and free, could not run a single story on this case even after witnessing everything before their eyes. Some journalists mustered courage to highlight this issue, they were either fired, bought or threatened to be murdered. Some judges gathered courage to hear this case, they were immediately transferred. Situation has come to such a worse end that for last five years this case is on judgment point, but their is no judge available to pronounce the judgment. Mafias are waiting for a proper chance to kill this lady so that they can possess this highly priced mega property which sits in the heart of most posh residential area of Jamshedpur. The price of this property goes in several crores and top beaurocrates, politicians and so called businessmen ( reality mafias) of Jharkhand are keeping their eagle eyes on it.
Lets go back to seventies and eighties of last century, when G.A. Kutto was the chief of security in TATA STEEL (TISCO). In his late days he planned to gift her only child Loraine a big house. TISCO had leased him a big plot in circuit house area as reward of his honest and loyal service to the company. He started building a beautiful house on that plot. He had given the responsibility to supervise the project to his friend's unemployed son Jitendra S Patel, just as a favor to gain him some experience for his future construction projects. Daughter Loraine was happy to receive such a grand gift from her father, hardly aware about the curse coming along with this memento. Loraine was happily married and settled in Mumbai. She was having an aspiring career of film journalist. But destiny had something else stored for her. After the death of her father, she came to Jamshedpur to perform the last right. Before she could even come over the shock of her loss, she came to know that supervisor Jitendra S Patel is trying to occupy her place by showing some alleged documents. She later realised that she has to knock on the door of judiciary to retrieve the wonderful gift of her late father. And that so when she has all the documents of that property and her opponents have nothing except some alleged papers, muscle power and lots of money to buy anybody… anyhow... Court specifically ordered Jitendra S Patel to vacate the house as soon as possible and not to come even closer to it till the final judgment. But Jitendra making mockery of justice continued occupying unfinished portion. he has kept his musclemen there who keep attacking Lorain. In the beginning she had thought that with the help of police she will regain her house soon and then she can go back to live her dream in Mumbai. But that day never came... She lost everything in the process...eventually her husband too...
Loraine is 55 now. She gets hundreds of threatening calls everyday. For last ten years she is literally living a life of house arrest. Police does not listen to her as attackers are top beaurocrates of Jharkhand. Media does not write her story as they will get backfired by their sponsor. And Judiciary our so called strongest pillar of democracy does not have single courageous judge to pronounce the Judgment…What an irony??? And surprisingly all this happening with the daughter of former chief security officer of TATA, making her the most unsecured person in the city of TATAS... This makes me wonder how safe are people in TATANAGAR? And how clean law enforcing agencies are there? Somebody makes fun of judiciary and judicial order and instead of arresting him they help him to do so...Can anybody still claim that Jamshedpur is better off as far as law and order is concerned than other cities of Bihar and Jharkhand?
Loraine is somehow managing to keep that fragile faith in some small corner of her heart that sacrifice she has made will help justice prevail and truth will emerge victorious...I just pray and hope that she won't have to die without relinquishing that faith...all her life she has been waiting for justice...all she wants is to let judge pronounce the judgment...she has been dying everyday to live for that one moment...can we give that to let her die in peace???
