NEW DELHI: As the Capital on Wednesday celebrated the country’s 73rd Republic Day, a few metres from closed police booth in Kasturba Nagar, a 20-year-old woman was allegedly gang-raped and then paraded around the streets by her attackers (most of whom were women) after chopping her hair off, blackening her face and garlanding her with a string of shoes, the police said a day later — highlighting yet again the vulnerability of women here.
The Delhi Police said they had apprehended 11 people in the case — seven women and two men were arrested in the case, in addition to which, two minors (aged 15 and 17.5) have also been apprehended for the sexual assault. The police have said that personal enmity was behind the assault and public humiliation, adding that all seven women arrested were from the same family. The police booth near where the incident took place was shut as it was Republic Day.
Several videos purportedly of the woman being paraded did the rounds of social media, prompting public outrage and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to call for the strictest action against all perpetrators even as the Delhi Commission for Women alleged that the attack was perpetrated by members of an illegal liquor racket.
This story is from the New Delhi 28January2022 edition of Millennium Post Delhi.
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