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'Mangalore victim's mother booked for flesh trade'
A day after she said women should not dress provocatively if they want to stay out of trouble, Karnataka women's commission chairperson C Manjula said on Thursday that the mother of one of the students assaulted by Hindu Jagran Vedike activists at a Mangalore homestay last week was booked under the Prevention of Immoral Trafficking Act a few years ago.
A day after she said women should not dress provocatively if they want to stay out of trouble, Karnataka women's commission chairperson C Manjula said on Thursday that the mother of one of the students assaulted by Hindu Jagran Vedike activists at a Mangalore homestay last week was booked under the Prevention of Immoral Trafficking Act a few years ago.
"We have to look at many angles," she said on the second day of her visit to Mangalore on Thursday.
Manjula said the girl students who were celebrating a birthday with fellow male students and friends were "innocent victims" who didn't know that the party was being organised in an "illegal" homestay.
She, however, said there were many "loopholes and missing links" in the case and that it should be handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation.
Manjula said she was satisfied with the stringent charges being slapped on the "vigilantes" who had attacked the women for partying with male students.
Pressed to clarify the commission's stand on the attack, Manjula said the absconding "vigilantes" and their promoters should be the arrested under the Goonda Act.
She also said she would recommend changes in the state's policy to ensure that goondas, thieves and those involved in the flesh trade are kept under constant surveillance by the police.
