Women’s organisations on Saturday organised a protest march towards the Delhi Police headquarters over alleged sexual violence by police personnel during the anti-CEC protests, led by the Cockroach Janta Party, in Delhi.
Journalists, gender minorities accuse police of sexual assault
The protesters assembled near Gurudwara Bangla Sahib and marched towards the Delhi Police headquarters to submit a memorandum seeking accountability for the alleged sexual and gender-based violence against demonstrators, news agency PTI reported. They also referred to footage that allegedly showed male police personnel assaulting women demonstrators and claimed that incidents of sexual violence had taken place inside police buses and detention centres. Delhi ACP, Vivek Bhagat, one of the accused, later alleged that the woman journalist made casteist remarks against him. No FIR has been filed against him while a man from Haryana was arrested for allegedly sharing a fabricated video that falsely showed the officer misbehaving with the woman journalist.
Three women journalists had earlier said police officers, deployed on the protest site on October 3, inappropriately touched them as they were covering the protests.
In a video shared by PTI on X, women protesters were heard raising the slogans of “Delhi Police sharam karo (Delhi Police, shame on you)” and “ tod ke rakhdo vo samaaj, naari jisme bandhi hai aaj (break apart the society that keeps its women shackled)”. The Supreme Court on October 15 said the allegations levelled by the woman journalist against the Delhi Police officer were “very serious”, according to PTI .
