The National Commission for Women (NCW) here on Saturday demanded exemplary punishment to those involved in molesting a girl on streets of Guwahati within six months by setting up fast-track court.
Expressing her displeasure on late arrival of the police at the crime scene, the members of the commission regretted that bystanders remained mute spectators to the crime and did nothing to rescue the girl.
The two-member team, comprising NCW member Wangchuk Syiem and social activist Alka Lamba, arrived here on Saturday and interviewed the witness besides holding discussion with top police and district administration officials. The team also visited the crime scene.
NCW member Alka Lamba told reporters, “The scene was barely five minutes away from the police station. But no patrol car was in the area nor did the police receive prompt alert. Women policemen were also not present.”
She also pointed out delay in the medical examination report of the victim as the incident occurred on Monday night and test was conducted the same night.
“We do not think the reports will be tampered, the injury marks are clear on her body. But we are dissatisfied that the report took so long to come,” she added.
Ms Lamba informed, “We met the victim. She will be staying with us tonight and we hope to get the correct picture.”
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Acid attack victim counters politicos on TV
age correspondent
PATNA, JULY 14
A Jharkhand woman, who was left blind in both eyes and partially deaf by an acid attack nine years ago, painfully narrated on Saturday how top politicians in the state had heartlessly shrugged off her prayers for help.
While some of the politicians who spoke to a terribly disfigured Sonali Mukherjee, 27, in a live telecast on a local TV channel failed to recollect her plight in 2003 and her father meeting them, numerous viewers called in with offers of monetary help and rebuked the politicians.
The TV programme, coming just days after a brutal acid attack on a woman in Bihar, allegedly with connivance of a lower-rung JD(U) leader, was largely watched across the two states and evoked a strong outcry. Ms Mukherjee and her father Chandidas Mukherjee, resident of Dhanbad, said they met many politicians, such as CM Arjun Munda, JMM chief Sibu Soren and Madhu Koda several times in the years after the acid attack.
“I also met several local MLAs and MPs begging for help. None of the politicians helped. Mr Sibu Soren promised to sanction `5 lakhs, but it never came. Mr Arjun Munda flew his son to Delhi for treatment but did not even speak to me. Mr Madhu Koda was indifferent,” said Mr Mukherjee.