Badaun/ Badayun
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History
Rakhshanda Jalil, Oct 29, 2022: Outlook
There was a time when the historic city of Badaun (also spelt as Budaun and pronounced Badayun), in the heart of the Rohilkhand region, was known for three things: pirs, poets and peras. The 13th-century Sufi saint, Nizamuddin Auliya, was born here and the two prominent dargahs known as Chhote Sarkar and Bade Sarkar drew thousands from far and wide. The pera made here – especially those at Mamman Khan Halwai’s from sweetened milk, boiled till its golden-brown, somewhat grainy residue could be compressed into discs and dusted with powdery sugar – drew its fair share of admirers in a ‘pera belt’ girding the girth of western Uttar Pradesh. But it was the sufis, poets and men and women of letters, really, who had put this otherwise nondescript, dusty, little town on the map. It was once said, only partly in jest, that if you were to toss a pebble at a busy cross-section anywhere in this city, it would be sure to hit a poet – or two!
There was something about this little town beside the River Sot, a tributary of the Ganga that flows nearby, that sprouted ilm-o adab from its nooks and crannies. Ismat Chughtai, Jeelani Bano, Dilawar Figar, Ale Ahmad Suroor, Bekhud Badayuni, Ada Jafri, Fani Badayuni, Irfan Siddiqui, Shakeel Badayuni -- the list of writers born here is long and illustrious. Far away from his watan, Irfan Siddiqui had lamented the loss of his ancestral city thus:
2015: spurt of rapes
The Times of India Feb 23 2015
CRIME HOTSPOT - Three rapes in a day in Badaun
Priyangi Agarwal
Badaun, which witnessed the hanging of two girls from a tree in 2014, is fast emerging as a hotspot for crimes against women. On Saturday , three cases of rape were reported here. In all three cases, FIR was lodged on Saturday. Accord ing to reports, an eightyear-old girl was on her way to a grocery shop in her village under Mujariya police station on Friday evening when Vijay Singh, 32, a farmer, lured her on the pretext of giving biscuits. He took her to a place near a graveyard 150 km away from the village on his bike, where he allegedly raped her.
In the second incident, which took place in a village under Civil Lines police station on February 19, four persons, including a woman, reportedly kidnapped a 16-year-old girl when she was standing outside her house. The girl's family alleged that she was gang-raped.
The last incident took place in a village under Civil Lines police station of Badaun. A 28-year-old woman has alleged that her brother-in-law Surendra and a villager Devendra came to her house when she was alone. The woman alleged that both men gang-raped her and fled after the crime.“We lodged an FIR on Saturday and are investigating the case,“ said Ajay Kumar Yadav, station officer, Civil Lines police station.
