200 - Halla Ho True Event : Bollywood’s veteran actor, director and producer Amol Palekar is all set to make a comeback after a decade with 200 – Halla Ho. The film's teaser that was released recently features a mob of 200 women barging into a courtroom before the legal proceedings begin.
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Who were these 200 women? Why did they barge in the courtroom? What were the legal proceedings about? Here's all you need to know about the case around which the movie revolves.
32-year-old Bharat Kalicharan aka Akku Yadav was a rapist and accused murderer. He was known to have raped over 200 women from a slum Kasturba Nagar slum of Nagpur. He would deliberately target women from the lower caste as he considered them to be "weak" and knew that they won't receive support from the authorities,
Usha Narayane, one of the victims, took her brother-in-law's help and reported him to the Deputy commissioner who assured his arrest. Driven by anger, the local residents set his house ablaze and he surrendered to the police fearing his safety.
His bail hearing was scheduled on August 13, 2004, in Nagpur District Court. The women in the slum area were sure that he wouldn't mend his ways and decided to take the matter in their own hands.
After knowing about his release, hundreds of Dalit women from the slum thronged the court carrying vegetable knives and chili powder and started hitting him with her sandal.
Eventually, he was lynched by an angry mob of around 200 women from the slum. They stabbed over seventy times and threw chili powder and stones in his face.
His penis was also chopped off by one of the victims. The women claimed that had been raping local women for over a decade. The police, however, was quiet because he was bribing them.
His lynching was followed by the arrest of five women but they were released following demonstrations in the city. All the slum women came out in solidarity and took responsibility for the lynching.
Retired High Court Bhau Vahane publicly defended the women who lynched Akku Yadav saying “In the circumstances they underwent, they were left with no alternative but to finish Akku. The Women repeatedly pleaded with the police for their security, but the police failed to protect them. If they took law into their hands, it was because the law and law-enforcing agencies had not given them succor", as per a report.
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