Badlapur: A ‘Rail Roko’ movement was started in Maharashtra’s Badlapur on Tuesday. Parents protesting against the sexual exploitation of 2 minor girls in a school reached the Badlapur station and started a ‘Train Roko Movement’. The local trains running on the route were badly impacted due to this protest by parents.
Hundreds on track after minor girls sexually abused
Reports said that hundreds of people were squatting on the railway tracks. Earlier the protestors, mostly parents of the kids who study in the school where the incident took place, had given a call for a ‘bandh’ in the city.
The parents’ anger was also directed at the school administration. They were asking the authorities to dismiss the principal of the school. The parents also held a protest outside the school building and asked the school administration to take strict action in this regard.
Meanwhile the police have already arrested the accused in the case. Reports said that the parents’ protest was quite sudden. They reached the school early morning on Tuesday and started to protest. When the school authorities ordered the gates to be closed, this further enraged the protesting parents and they started to raise slogans against the school administration.
The parents have alleged that the girls studying in the school are not safe. According to them, even after 4 days of the incident, the school has not taken any action and neither have they informed parents about what steps they plan to take in order to curb such incidents in the future. The parents are demanding an apology from the school and also want them to assure that their kids will be safe inside the premises.
SHO personally looking into the matter, accused arrested: DCP
The Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) of Badlapur has said that the SHO of the area is himself investigating the case. He claimed that the police are trying their level best to bring the man to justice at the earliest and for this they would appeal to the courts to fasttrack the case.
The police had requested the parents to not hold protests. They had also warned that if they took out any rallies without the permission of the administration, then strict action could be taken against them. Despite these threats, a large number of parents were seen protesting against the incident.
