Puttur: Rape victim to get education outside District: NCW member
Puttur: The National Commission for Women would ensure education for Puttur gang-rape victim in outside district, NWC member Shyamala Kundar said.
After visiting the house of the victim and speaking to the girl and her parents at Puttur on Monday, she told reporters that the girl was depressed mentally due to the incident. But she has expressed her desire to continue her education and her mother also wanted her to become a higher officer. The NCW would make all arrangements to complete her education, she said.
Compensation
In order to empower her economically, the Commission has taken all steps. From the Social Welfare Department, a compensation of Rs 412250 would be credited to her bank account on July 9 and remaining Rs 4 lakh would be given to her in coming days. The Commission would take all possible steps for her education and compensate her and her parents, Kundar assured.
Friendship misused
In her 45 minutes speech, she explained the pain she has experienced. Her own classmates invited her for friendly discussion and later raped her. According to her mother, the girl used to be friendly with others and this was misused by her classmates, Kundar said.
Visits college
Kundar also visited the college where the accused was studying and discussed with the college management which has already constituted a five-member internal committee to collect the information and probe the incident. The college was given suggestions and direction to conduct awareness programmes in the college, she said.
The parents who question their daughters when they are late to homes, should keep their sons in control. Otherwise, the parents have to face the problem for mistakes done by their kids. Its parents' responsibility to educate their children about good behaviour. The Commission would take steps to make such awareness programmes more effective, Shyamala Kundar said.
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14 arrested in JNU protest case
New Delhi (PTI): Fourteen protesters were arrested in connection with a demonstration at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) here on Thursday evening, police said.
Those held JNU Students' Union (JNUSU) president Aditi Mishra, vice president Gopika Babu, former president Nitish Kumar, and joint secretary Danish Ali, among others, they said.
Police said an FIR has been registered under sections 132/3(5) (assault or criminal force), 221 (obstructing public servant) and 121(1) (voluntarily causing hurt) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) at the Vasant Kunj North Police Station.
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The arrests followed an attempted march by JNUSU members, who had gathered at Sabarmati T-Point on the campus and sought to move towards the education ministry as part of ongoing protests over JNU Vice Chancellor Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit's recent remarks on a podcast over the implementation of UGC norms, rustication of JNUSU office bearers, and the proposed Rohith Act.
Police personnel, however, stopped the protesters at the heavily barricaded university gates, leading to a scuffle.
A total of 51 protesters, including Mishra and Kumar, were detained on Thursday evening, with Delhi Police claiming that the students resorted to physical assault, injuring several of its personnel, during the confrontation.
In a statement, the students' union called for a complete university strike and reiterated allegations of police excess during the march.
It claimed that 13 students, including three office-bearers, were detained and several students were "brutally attacked and injured", while a portrait of B. R. Ambedkar was damaged during the police action.
Among its demands, the JNUSU has sought the immediate and unconditional release of all, resignation of the vice-chancellor, action against police personnel over the alleged desecration of Ambedkar's portrait, and withdrawal of proctorial actions and FIRs against student activists.
The Jawaharlal Nehru University Teachers Association (JNUTA) had earlier condemned the police action.
