Ajmer Files 1992: 33 Years Later, One Victim Breaks The Wall Of Silence

Trigger Warning: This article contains descriptions of sexual violence, abuse, blackmail, and suicide. Reader discretion is strongly advised.

"They took turns in raping me... Nafees Chishti, Farooq Chishti, and four others. I was 18."

For over three decades, the Ajmer rape and blackmail case remained buried under silence, shame, and suppression. More than 200 Hindu girls (some in school uniforms, some barely adults) were trapped, drugged, photographed, and raped repeatedly by a grooming gang operating from the revered Ajmer Sharif Dargah.

The men belonged to the powerful Chishti family, the custodians of the shrine, whose influence reached far beyond the city.

Most victims disappeared from public view. Some died by suicide. Most were never heard from again.

Until now.

For the first time in 33 years, one of the original victims, Saroj, speaks out in a full-length documentary. She recounts in chilling detail the horrors inflicted upon her, the silence that followed, and the life that never recovered. Her story is not just a testimony. It is an indictment of a system that failed her, a media that buried the story, and a society that chose secular amnesia over civilisational responsibility.

Her voice has returned. It must echo.

Watch her story. Share her truth.

“Main Zinda Hoon”: A Daughter India Abandoned
By: Saroj, victim and survivor
Length: ~10 minutes
Language: Hindi with subtitles

For 33 years, Saroj carried a story no one wanted to hear. A story of betrayal, not just by the men who tied her up and raped her, but by a society that turned its face away.

She was 18. The perpetrators were powerful men: Nafees Chishti, Farooq Chishti, and others, descendants of the Khadims of the Ajmer Sharif Dargah.

They ran a blackmail racket that preyed on Hindu girls from nearby schools and colleges. Once trapped, the girls were photographed nude, filmed during the assaults, and forced into silence with threats of public shaming. Saroj was one of them.

In a recent documentary with journalist Subhi Vishwakarma, Saroj breaks her silence for the first time. Her voice trembles but does not waver as she recounts how her life was shattered: the violence, the blackmail, the stigma, the failed marriages, the isolation.

This film is more than a survivor’s testimony. It is a searing reminder of the collective betrayal of our daughters, where religious appeasement and fear of communal tension conspired to bury the truth. Saroj speaks not just for herself, but for the hundreds who could not.

Watch her speak. Share her truth. Because justice begins with remembrance.

Watch here: https://youtu.be/XHAS22lnK_4?si=d4P0rH2cMaVdZnwX

“Justice for Ajmer’s Daughters”: The Lawyer Who Wouldn’t Quit
By: Virendra Singh Rathod, advocate for the victims
Length: ~30 minutes
Language: Hindi with subtitles

When most of India chose silence, Virendra Singh Rathod chose to fight.

This documentary traces the journey of the man who took on the Ajmer case when it was at its most radioactive. Rathod, then a young lawyer, was approached by terrified families, silenced girls, and a hostile state machinery.

Despite it all, Rathod persisted. The film weaves through his testimony and case files that show how long, lonely, and dangerous the road to justice was. Rathod names names, traces the judicial timeline, and explains why most of the guilty still walk free.

This is not just a courtroom drama. It is a case study in what happens when the law is asked to deliver justice that society itself does not want.

Watch here: https://youtu.be/1j1cvFz79kc?si=Ig_M5kEN9CzOMBiY

“The Story They Tried to Kill”: The Journalist Who Exposed the Horror
By: Santosh Gupta, original investigative reporter
Length: ~58 minutes
Language: Hindi with subtitles

Before the news went viral, there was Santosh Gupta.

In 1992, Gupta was the first journalist to break the Ajmer case in the local Hindi daily Dainik Navjyoti. What he uncovered was staggering: photographs, victim accounts, school connections, and the repeated involvement of men from a prominent religious shrine.

But the real story was not just what happened. It was how the system moved to suppress it.

Gupta’s documentary is a journalist’s reflection on betrayal, not just of the victims, but of truth itself. He walks us through the media blackout, the editorial pressure to drop the story, and the death threats that followed.

There were no awards. No national headlines. Only silence.

More problematically, he reveals how the Indian media turned its back on one of the biggest rape rackets in modern India because the wrong kind of victims were involved and the wrong kind of men were guilty.

This is not just the story of Ajmer. It is the story of what happens when the Fourth Estate becomes the Fifth Column.

Watch here: https://youtu.be/j0BS3yuhfjQ?si=zuoRTEK8DqZW6Xf9

Three Films, One Truth: Watch. Share. Remember.

Saroj spoke. Virendra fought. Santosh exposed.

And for over three decades, India looked away.

The Ajmer case is not just a horrifying episode of serial exploitation. It is a mirror held up to a civilisation caught between cowardice and convenience, where victims are buried by shame, perpetrators shielded by politics, and truth sacrificed at the altar of secular silence.

These three documentaries, told by the very people who bore the cost of speaking out, are not just records of what happened. These are warnings of what will happen again if we forget.

Do not let Saroj's voice disappear into the void again.
Do not let the system grind down men like Rathod.
Do not let journalists like Gupta fight alone.

Watch these films. Share them widely. Make others uncomfortable. Because justice begins when memory refuses to die.

Streaming now on Organiser Weekly, YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@eOrganiser