Wheelchair-bound rape survivor moves SC seeking medical help

A wheelchair-bound neck down paralysed woman, who was brutally raped, gangraped, tortured and illegally confined for seven months, has moved the Supreme Court seeking immediate access to medical treatment and rehabilitative support and justice.

- SUCHITRA KALYAN MOHANTY @ New Delhi

Senior lawyer Shobha Gupta, representing the petitioner, told this newspaper that the repeated acts of gruesome sexual violence inflicted by the accused on the 34-year-old bedridden neck down disabled survivor is barbaric and inhuman.

The petitioner was wheelchair-bound and suffering from partial disability when she came in contact with the accused.