MUMBAI WOMAN HARASSED AT SITE
OF PROTEST AGAINST KATHU AND UNNAO RAPES
The woman, 27, said
she was out on her evening walk and not part of the protest. She said that she
noticed that she was being followed by a man, who was in his 20s and appeared
drunk. She said that after he followed her for 10 minutes and then tried to
grab her.The woman raised an alarm after which the protesters caught him and
handed him over to the policemen deployed at the protest site.An FIR under
section 354 (A) (D) of the IPC has been registered against the accused who is a
resident of Bhivandi. He will be produced before the magistrate court on
Monday.
Apart from Mumbai,
massive protests were held in Delhi, Ahmedabad, Kochi and several other cities.
The protest comes as two incidents of rape in Jammu and Kashmir and in Uttar
Pradesh provoked outrage across India. Several similar protests have been
organised over the past week to demand justice to the victims of the two cases.
Prof. John Kurakar
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