Mangalore, August 11: The Mahila Daurjanya Virodhi Vedike has in a preliminary fact finding report on the attack on students at a homestay, submitted to the Government of Karnataka, demanded that the case be subjected to speedy trial so that quicker action is taken against the culprits.
The Vedike has in its demand said that to avoid a repeat of the inaction in the 2009 pub attacks where culprits were not brought to book, the perpetrators of the homestay attack be punished within a year by subjecting the case to a speedy trial. It has also demanded that the government provide a special public prosecutor to handle such cases.
Stating that women police staff were not used for questioning the female victims of the attacks, the Vedike has urged the government to make it mandatory for the police to take along women police in instances such as the homestay attack.
Besides demanding a ban on all anti-women organisations, the Vedike has demanded that enquiry be held against police inaction with regard to the homestay attack.
The Vedike has mentioned in its report that police not only went soft on the goons who carried out the attack, but also used abusive language against the victims at the police station after taking them for enquiry.
Activists such as Dr Sabiha Bhoomigowda, Dr Parinitha Shetty, Vidya Dinker and Gulabi Bilimale are part of the Vedike which has submitted the report.
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