Moga (Punjab): The last rites of a teenage girl who was raped and thrown out of a bus owned by Punjab deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal, was performed by her parents on Sunday, a day after Moga town was to shut down in protest against her gruesome killing.
The 13-year-old girl's family and the Punjab police held day-long meeting trying to contain the political damage to the Badals after the teen's father, Sukhdev Singh, had rejected the Rs 2000,000 compensation offer by the SAD government, and refused an autopsy unless Sukhbir was booked under charges amounting to death due to negligence.
The compensation amount was revised to Rs 2400,000 and a government statement said the amount would be given by Sukhbir's firm, Orbit Aviation. News agencies reported Sukhdev, who works as a class four employee in a private firm, would also get a government job.
The cremation took place under the watch of more than 4,000 cops, even as villagers and Opposition leaders, who had gathered there, attacked the government for resorting to coercive tactics.
Another woman allegedly molested
Days after the Moga bus molestation case, another woman was allegedly molested on board a bus in Punjab. The driver and conductor of a private bus were arrested after a woman alleged that she had been molested by a passenger near Punjab's Khanna town.
In her complaint to the police, the woman alleged that a fellow passenger sat next to her and started touching her. When she protested, he moved to a seat behind her but continued to pass lewd comments. The victim said she complained to the bus conductor and driver but they did not listen to her. She then called up her husband who informed the police. The police later arrested the driver and the conductor. However, the alleged offender is yet to be arrested.
