The Delhi Commission for Women on Wednesday claimed that the Delhi Police detained its chairperson Swati Maliwal while she was on her way to the Prime Minister’s Office to submit letters received by the women’s commission from across the nation, as a part of the Rape Roko movement.
She was let off later and police personnel accompanied her to the PMO.
In a bid to ensure stringent punishment for those accused of raping minors, the DCW had launched the ‘Rape Roko’ movement in January. The women’s commission claimed that it had received a large number of letters from people across the nation urging Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take steps towards the same.
“Ms. Maliwal has been gravely injured and she is not in a condition to move her arms. This has happened while she was on her way to the PMO in a peaceful manner, to deliver the thousands of letters that the commission received over the last few weeks” said a DCW official.
The women’s commission further claimed that the police had stopped the delegation at Vijay Chowk and had detained the chairperson.
