Gurmehar Kaur files complaint after ‘rape threat’
- Delhi police have lodge a complaint against unknown persons.
- Gurmehar Kaur, a DU, student was threatened with rape for her political views.
- An ABVP member also now have filed a case of molestation.
FollowEven as Delhi police filed a case against unpersons for threatening Delhi University student Gurmehar Kaur, the 20-year-old on Monday complained to the city’s women rights panel that she was threatened with rape for her social media campaign against the ABVP.
Gurmehar met Delhi commission for women (DCW) chief Swati Maliwal and complained against the online threats she had received, a DCW official said.
Tuesday also saw the Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) led by ABVP taking out iranga Rally” while the JNU students held a meeting to protest on the recent incidents of violence and intolerance.
While Kaur is yet to approach the police directly, an ABVP student member has lodged a complaint that she was molested by two activists of the Left-affiliated All India Student Association (AISA) on February 21.
The ABVP member claimed she was assaulted outside Shri Ram College of Commerce when the literary fest at Ramjas College was cancelled.
The two student groups clashed the next day over the college inviting Jawaharlal Nehru University students Umar Khalid and Shehla Rashid for a seminar. Khalid was arrested on sedition charges in 2016.
In the aftermath of the Ramjas college violence, Kaur put up a picture of herself on Twitter and Facebook holding a placard.
“I am student from Delhi University. I am not afraid of ABVP. I am not alone. Every student of India is with me,” the message read.
As the post went viral, an old picture of Kaur, whose father captain Mandeep Singh was killed in 1999 Kargil war, resurfaced in social media in which the placard reads, “Pakistan did not kill my dad, war did.” She was called anti-national and threatened with rape for her campaign against the ABVP.
Kaur on Tuesday said that she withdrawing from the student moment. On Monday, she was not afraid because she was fighting for “the right cause”.
“I am getting hundreds of threats. If I start lodging complaints against each of them, then even the police would ask me to stop,” she said.
