Rally against gang rape
NZPA-Reuter New Delhi The police arrested about 2500 supporters of India’s Opposition Lok Dal (People’s Party) who were taking part in a demonstration yesterday against an alleged case of gang rape by the police. ■', The demonstrators were driven away in police buses after they staged a march and broke a law banning
: protests close to Parliament! ; House. | The Lok Dal leader andi former Prime Minister/ : Charan Singh, called the ' protest against what he de- : scribed as Government inaction against the police als leged to have been involved : in the rape incident at Bagi hpat in northern Uttar Pra- ; desh state in June.
Mr Singh told a rally before the protest march that there was ho parallel in Indian history for the Baghpat affairs in which the police are alleged to have stripped a woman, paraded her naked through. the streets, and then. gang-raped her after killing her husband and two other men.
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