Synopsis The National Commission for Women has come across media reports of the sexual assault of a 26-year-old woman at Tikri border, Haryana. It is being alleged that Yogendra Yadav and other protesters of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha were aware of the sexual assault committed upon the girl but unfortunately, they did not inform the police about the incident.
The Haryana Police had on Sunday formed a special investigation team to probe the case.
The NCW has issued notices to Swaraj India leader Yogendra Yadav and BKU Ekta Ugrahan president Joginder Singh Ugrahan over reports of sexual assault on a 26-year-old woman activist at the Tikri border protest site, the women rights panel said on Tuesday. The National Commission for Women has come across media reports of the sexual assault of a 26-year-old woman at Tikri border, Haryana. It is being alleged that Yogendra Yadav and other protesters of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha were aware of the sexual assault committed upon the girl but u
New Delhi, May 11
The NCW has issued notices to Swaraj India leader Yogendra Yadav and BKU Ekta Ugrahan president Joginder Singh Ugrahan over reports of sexual assault on a 26-year-old woman activist at the Tikri border protest site, the women rights panel said on Tuesday.
“The National Commission for Women has come across media reports of the sexual assault of a 26-year-old woman at Tikri border, Haryana. It is being alleged that Yogendra Yadav and other protesters of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha were aware of the sexual assault committed upon the girl but unfortunately, they did not inform the police about the incident.
May 10, 2021, 19:45 PM IST
New Delhi: A 26-year-old woman activist from West Bengal, who was on her way to join the farmers protest at New Delhi s Tikri border, was reportedly assaulted and subsequently died of COVID-19 related complications. According to the farmers group, the victim was travelling with the same accused, who posed to be members of Kisan Social Army
On May 9, the Haryana Police formed a special investigation team after the woman s father alleged she was raped when she had gone to the border point with some members of an outfit supporting the protest against the Centre s new farm laws. Six people, including the two prime accused, have been named in an FIR registered in the case following a complaint from the father on Saturday, an official said.
Jhajjar, May 9
The police have registered a case against six persons after the father of a 25-year-old woman from West Bengal, who died of Covid at Tikri border on April 30, alleged his daughter was sexually assaulted and kept in illegal confinement at the farmers’ protest site on the Delhi border.
Father lodges complaint
Main accused Anil Malik and Anup Singh ran Kisan Social Army
SKM has dissociated itself from outfit and removed its tents
In his complaint lodged at the Bahadurgarh police station, the victim’s father alleged the main accused, Anil Malik and Anup Singh, who ran an outfit Kisan Social Army, also tried to kidnap her.
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ROHTAK/BATHINDA: In a first incident of its kind at the farmers’ protest site, the Haryana Police on Sunday night booked six persons for gang rape and abduction of a 25-yearold activist at Tikri border.
The accused, identified as Anil Malik, Anup Singh, Ankush Sangwan and Jagdish Brar along with two women, had pitched tents at Tikri border under the banner of Kisan Social Army and have been booked under sections 365, 342, 376-D, 506, 120-B of the Indian Penal Code.
According to the details in the FIR, a delegation of farmers, including the accused, had held a public meeting in Hooghly, Bengal, on April 1. The victim, an artist and designer, had come in contact with them and she convinced her parents to allow her to go to a protest site in Delhi to support the farmers.