Activists of various women and human rights organisations organised a candlelight protest demanding justice to the Unnao rape survivor, at the Gandhi statue near the GVMC administrative building on Wednesday.
Holding banners, they raised slogans condemning the alleged attempts to browbeat the rape survivor, a minor, by the accused BJP MLA Kuldip Singh Sengar and his associates.
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Referring to the recent incident of a truck ramming a car in which the survivor was travelling, killing two of her relatives and critically injuring her and the lawyer, they alleged that it was not an accident but ‘an attack intended to kill the survivor’.
Citing the Kathua rape and murder case in Jammu and the Best Bakery case in Gujarat, the protesters demanded that the Unnao case be shifted out of Uttar Pradesh, if justice was to be delivered to the victim. They wanted the Supreme Court to take immediate cognisance of the case and appoint a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe into the case. K. Padma of Mahila Chetna, Prabhavathi (AIDWA), M. Laxmi (Progressive Organisation of Women), Lalita (Chaitanya Mahila Sangam) and V.S. Krishna (HRF) took part in protest.
