Unnao rape survivor
NEW DELHI: The Unnao rape case survivor on Wednesday met leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi, a day after the Delhi high court suspended the life sentence of former BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar, the convict in the case.She told the media she hoped to meet President Droupadi Murmu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah as well.“We just want to meet him (Gandhi) and tell him what we are going through. I also want to meet the Prime Minister and Amit Shah. Our President is a woman. I want to meet all of them and apprise them of the injustice done to me,” the survivor told reporters as she arrived at the residence of Congress Parliamentary Party chief Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi’s mother, where he stays.The woman, who was a minor when Sengar committed the crime in June 2017, met Gandhi hours after the Congress leader, in a post on X, condemned the manhandling of the survivor by security forces at Delhi’s India Gate, where she was protesting the grant of bail to Sengar”Is such treatment of a gang rape survivor appropriate? Is it her ‘fault’ that she has the courage to raise her voice for justice? The fact that her perpetrator (former BJP MLA Sengar) has been granted bail is extremely disappointing and shameful—especially when the survivor is being repeatedly harassed and is living under the shadow of fear,” Gandhi wrote. “Bail for rapists and treating survivors like criminals—what kind of justice is this? We are not just becoming a dead economy—with such inhuman incidents, we are also turning into a dead society. The survivor deserves respect, safety and justice — not helplessness, fear, and injustice,” he added.