The family members of the teenage girl who died after she was molested and thrown out of a moving bus on Friday said they will not cremate her body until the owners of the transport company are booked for causing death by negligence, along with four other alleged perpetrators charged with murder and attempt to murder.
The bus belongs to Orbit Aviation, a company owned by Punjab's deputy CM Sukhbir Badal. The girl's father alleged he was being forced to compromise, saying he would not even allow an autopsy until his demand was met. “I need justice. My daughter was a little girl. Is our legal system so weak that it can't press charges against the owner?“ asked the angry father. “I have taken my son to a safe location. I was being pressured to compromise with some people,“ he alleged, and cited the charges against the owners of the bus in which Nirbhaya was gangraped as precedent.
The girl's body has been kept at a private mortuary in village Singhewala, three km from where the mother and daughter were thrown out of the bus. The father also alleged that his wife and son were not convinced that the actual perpetrators have been arrested.
The four accused were produced in the court of judicial magistrate Pratima Mahajan, who remanded them in police custody till May 4.
Sukhbir Badal in his first public statement on the murder, said, “I am personally and deeply anguished, more so because of the bus in which it happened... I have directed the law enforcing agencies to take the matter to its logical conclusion.“ Referring to the ownership of the company , he said, “That only adds to our responsibility. It's absurd even to think that the company's owners would allow such brutality and brazenness to go unpunished.“
Under fire from the opposition, Sukhbir said he regretted that for the opposition, it was not the family's tragedy but the ownership of the company that mattered.
The bus belongs to Orbit Aviation, a company owned by Punjab's deputy CM Sukhbir Badal. The girl's father alleged he was being forced to compromise, saying he would not even allow an autopsy until his demand was met. “I need justice. My daughter was a little girl. Is our legal system so weak that it can't press charges against the owner?“ asked the angry father. “I have taken my son to a safe location. I was being pressured to compromise with some people,“ he alleged, and cited the charges against the owners of the bus in which Nirbhaya was gangraped as precedent.
The girl's body has been kept at a private mortuary in village Singhewala, three km from where the mother and daughter were thrown out of the bus. The father also alleged that his wife and son were not convinced that the actual perpetrators have been arrested.
The four accused were produced in the court of judicial magistrate Pratima Mahajan, who remanded them in police custody till May 4.
Sukhbir Badal in his first public statement on the murder, said, “I am personally and deeply anguished, more so because of the bus in which it happened... I have directed the law enforcing agencies to take the matter to its logical conclusion.“ Referring to the ownership of the company , he said, “That only adds to our responsibility. It's absurd even to think that the company's owners would allow such brutality and brazenness to go unpunished.“
Under fire from the opposition, Sukhbir said he regretted that for the opposition, it was not the family's tragedy but the ownership of the company that mattered.
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