Women stage protest seeking justice for Unnao rape victim in Visakhapatnam

Visakhapatnam: Activists of various women organisations held a protest seeking justice for the Unnao rape survivor, near GVMC office here on Wednesday.

Holding banners and candles, they raised slogans condemning the alleged attempts to browbeat the rape survivor, a minor, by the accused BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar and his associates and relatives.

Citing the recent incident of a truck ramming into the car in which the survivor was travelling and how the accident killed two of her relatives and critically injured her and her lawyer was not an accident but an attack intended to kill the survivor, they alleged.

The protesters demanded that the Unnao case be shifted out of Uttar Pradesh and wanted the Supreme Court to take immediate cognisance of the case and appoint a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigate the case.

Among those who participated in the protest were V S Krishna and K Anuradha from the Human Rights Forum, K Padma of Mahila Chetana, Prabhavathi of AIDWA, Vimala of NFIW, M Lakshmi of POW.