nRaising slogans ‘we are ashamed that your rapists are still alive Nirbhaya’, several members of Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) on Thursday took out a protest march in Delhi demanding capital punishment for rapists. However, they were stopped by Delhi Police near ITO.
On Thursday morning, the members of DCW started their march from Rajghat towards the Parliament but when they reached near ITO, they were stopped by Delhi Police. The protestors alleged that they were assaulted by Police near ITO. However, police denied their claims.
“When protestors were stopped at ITO and they threw bangles at police. No one was assaulted by police. The police persuaded them peacefully,” said a police official. According to police, they had earlier said that the protesters will be stopped near Jantar Mantar and would not be allowed to march ahead as the Parliament session is going on.
After the protestors were not allowed beyond ITO, they all moved back towards Rajghat, where the DCW chief Swati Maliwal is sitting on indefinite hunger strike for last 10 days demanding the Central Government to make regulation in which the rape convict should get the harshest punishment within six months.
Meanwhile, the DCW chief had on Monday written a letter to Union Minister
Smriti Irani demanding that the Government distribute thousands of crores of rupees accumulated in the Nirbhaya fund among the State Governments.