Amid the rising infection of coronavirus in the country, a 26-year-old women activist who had traveled to Delhi from West Bengal to join the farmers’ protest at Covid hotspot Tikri border, was allegedly raped on the way.
The young woman was admitted to Shivam Hospital for four days and later succumbed to the Wuhan Virus on April 30.
Dark side of Indian "liberalism"
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"Farmer protesters" went to Bengal on Apr 1, convinced a woman to come along.
They tried to rape her on train.
On reaching Delhi, they forced her to share tent with accused.
Now 6 have been booked for gangrape.
And yes, 2 are AAP workers.
After her death, the woman’s father has lodged a complaint with police in Bahadurgarh and an FIR has been registered against four men. Two of the prime accused named in the FIR are Anoop and Anil Malik who run the ‘Kisan Social Army’.
This incident has put the farmers strike on the backfoot and the Samyukta Kisan Morcha has said in a statement that the woman was assaulted on the way to Delhi.
This has now led to the formation of a special investigation team by the Haryana Police on Sunday (9 May) led by a DSP to investigate the case.
The Samyukta Kisan Morcha said in its statement that it “stands with the struggle for justice for our deceased woman colleague. SKM has already taken strict action against the accused in this case and we are committed to take this fight for justice to its logical conclusion.”
“When this came to the notice of the SKM, we decided to take the strictest possible action. Four days ago, the Tikri committee of SKM had already removed the tents and banners of the so called ‘Kisan Social Army’. The accused were also barred from participating in the movement and public appeal was issued for their social boycott,” the statement stated.
It must be Momita Basu (25), daughter of communist leader Utsav Basu who had also travelled from West Bengal, died of Covid-19 on 30 April. However, there is no confirmation that the rape victim was Momita Basu.
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