Kurnool: Women organisations seek stringent action against rapists

Kurnool: Women members of various organisations and college students in large numbers took out rallies in city on Friday demanding severe punishments on the rapists. The Jana Sena Veera Mahila wing members along with the students of KVR Government Degree College for Women carrying placards took out rally from Raj Vihar Centre to Collectorate where they staged protest.

The Mahila wing chairman Javvaji Rekha addressing the gathering on occasion, said that sexual harassments and attacks on women of all ages have become very common. ``The central and state governments are not serious to impose severe punishments to the culprits. The rapists are easily escaping by bribing the police or taking the advantage of loopholes in the law,'' she lamented.

Another member Sugali Parvathi Devi came down heavily on the officials of law and order, administration and political leaders. She said her daughter, Sugali Preeti Bai, a class tenth student of Cattamanchi Ramalinga Reddy Residential School was raped and murdered by the school correspondent, Vallupureddy Janardhan Reddy and his two sons, Vallupureddy Diwakar Reddy and Vallupureddy Harsha Vardhan Reddy in 2017. The three accused, with the support of big wigs in the state government, are freely moving in the society, alleged Parvathi Devi.

``Instead of initiating stringent action on the accused, the police have threatened them. The investigation officer in the case, DSP Vinod Kumar has harassed like anything. This shows how the police department is doing justice to the victims. Even after two years of the incident, we are still fighting for justice,'' she lamented.

The SC, ST, BC and Minority Mahila Ikya Vedika founder Patnam Rajeshwari and district president Nandi Vijaya Lakshmi also said that attacks on women of all ages are occurring every day. Though stringent laws are in vogue, the culprits are easily escaping from punishments. The culprits have to be punished severely so that others will not dare to commit the crimes, said the leaders.