Badlapur school case, In Thane, Maharashtra, large scale protests regarding the sexual abuse of two four-year-old girls in a Badlapur school case saw police batons and tear gas. Badlapur railway station was crowded with demonstrators for over six hours until the police quickly cleared them off and a strong force moved in. The sound of batons being wielded led to those sitting on railway tracks running away. People came from other side of the station and started throwing stones making it look like a war zone. However, the police won and pursued the demonstrators as they fled in confusion.
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Badlapur school case?
Anger grew more intense as more details became known about the sexual assault. Early in the morning, thousands of protesters had gathered at Badlapur rail station near to hinder train movement. At 6 pm, this assembly swelled posing questions to law enforcement actors. Their cries of “hang hang” tell that they want to see execution happen to 23-year old cleaner who could be responsible according to authorities for all these problems.
The opposition has further angered demonstrators by claiming that parents of girls were kept waiting for an FIR for eleven hours at a nearby police station. The administration has suspended three policemen implicated.
With recent debates concerning rape and murder of young doctors in Kolkata, Thane demonstration seemed to have been an issue on local radar.
The leader of opposition group in Maharashtra assembly Vijay Wadettiwar said that “crimes [against] children” happening there are “greater than” rape murder case in Kolkata since they are just four year olds from Badlapur.
What happens in Badlapur school case?
There is also another instance where a child aged four years old together with her sibling aged three-and-half-years become victims but when their parents go to report at the nearest Police Post they are forced into waiting room for whole eleven hours! Is this still even something worth being sensitive over? Quoting Mr. Wadettiwar, “I have also spoken to the Commissioner of Police and told him that the lady police official responsible for this delay should be put on suspension.”
When the doctor saw them, he told their parents that they had been molested.
The entire state is enraged over this incident, according to Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi.
“In Badlapur, Maharashtra, two young girls were sexually raped on school property; the state is incensed and demanding justice. Again I fervently request president’s house to ratify the Maharashtra Shakti Criminal Law once more as no other female or child must go through such ridiculousness. The state government has continuously failed women’s security,” Chaturvedi said.
