Nodeep Kaur:Illegally arrested from farmer protest, sexually assaulted by Harayana Police.

Nodeep Kaur:Illegally arrested from farmer protest, sexually assaulted by Harayana Police.

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Started by A Kaur

#ReleaseNodeepKaur - On January 12th, the Haryana Police barged into the Majdoor Adhikar Sanghatan (MAS) tent erected in solidarity with the protesting farmers and peasants at the Singhu Border and arrested a 24-year-old dalit woman, a worker and trade union activist Nodeep Kaur. She was then taken to the Kundli police station where two different FIRs were filed against her, FIR 25/2021 and 26/2021. One under sections 148, 149, 186, 332, 352, 384, 379B and 307 of the Indian Penal Code and the other under sections 148, 149, 323, 452, 384 and 506; a wide range of sections including rioting while armed with deadly weapon, unlawful assembly, causing hurt to public servant, assault and criminal force, trespass, extortion, snatching, criminal intimidation and attempt to murder. These FIR’s are based on statements by a police inspector and the accountant of the company that had failed to pay the workers’ wages, M/S Elecmech Pvt. Ltd. While in police custody, she was brutally beaten by male police officers including her genitals amounting to sexual violence. In the midst of one of the largest peasant agitations in recent times where workers of the Kundli Industrial Area have shown solidarity with the agitation, the Haryana police, after repeated efforts to break this unity, has shown its brutality through heinous sexual violence perpetuated against a young dalit woman hailing from a landless peasant family in Punjab. Nodeep Kaur has since been sent to Karnal Jail where she remains in judicial custody for two weeks. Meanwhile, the threat of arrest of more workers looms large over the Kundli Industrial Area.

Here is a link to the video due to which she was abducted from her tent :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1y5Gx8evdU&feature=youtu.be

It is clear Nodeep has been a victim of the many abductions that have taken place during these protests. How does the Indian Government justify abducting and raping their citizen peacefully protesting and standing up for the civil rights of her country? How does the Indian judicial system justify holding her for 22 days ( as of Feb 2, 2021 ) and still continue to hold her in custody under false allegations? 

 

We request you to sign this petition, spread awareness and help free Nodeep Kaur. 

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