Female journalist allegedly groped at Youth Congress rally in Delhi, files FIR

The woman journalist lodged an FIR with Delhi Police on Thursday alleging she was "groped and pinched" during a Congress rally

By: Rakesh Jha |
August 11, 2017 12:07 pm

A woman journalist, who went to cover ‘Bharat Bachao Andolan’, organised by the Youth Congress members against the NDA government at Jantar Mantar on Thursday was allegedly ‘groped’ by unidentified people in the crowd.

The scribe, who is a senior correspondent at a private news channel, lodged an FIR with Delhi Police on Thursday alleging she was “groped and pinched” during Congress rally in the national capital. A complaint has been registered against the unidentified individuals at Parliament Street police station. Eminent Congress leaders Raj Babbar and Ahmed Patel were also present in the rally. The journo took to micro blogging site Twitter to share her harrowing experience.

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Condemning the incident, the national spokesperson of Youth Congress Amrish Ranjan Pandey said someone in the crowd “took advantage of the situation”. He assured to “extend all the help” to the journalist to ensure that the guilty were punished.

In a series of tweets, she said:

“I am a journalist. I got groped during a @IYC rally where speeches were made against the govt’s failure to maintain law&order. #YesAllWomen (sic),” she tweeted.

Crowd around MPs @RajBabbarMP and @ahmedpatel at #IYC protest #JantarMantar and I get groped and pinched. What discipline was this @IYC ??

— Aneesha Mathur (@AneeshaMathur) August 10, 2017

I am a journalist. I got groped during a @IYC rally where speeches were made against the govt’s failure to maintain law&order. #YesAllWomen pic.twitter.com/ttdE4A7udW

— Aneesha Mathur (@AneeshaMathur) August 10, 2017

She also tweeted how people are questioning her why she went into the crowd.

Reactions to me saying I got molested–
1.why the hell did you enter the crowd?
2. Why didn’t you turn around and slap the guy who did it?

— Aneesha Mathur (@AneeshaMathur) August 10, 2017

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Here are some of the reactions:

Most unfortunate and condemnable. Please file an FIR and see to that the perverts are booked.

— Priyabrata Tripathy (@PriyabrataT) August 10, 2017

Lodge a police case. This is serious crime. Much bigger crime than stalking!

— Amit Srivastava __ (@AmiSri) August 10, 2017

This is outrageous! Request @IYC president @RajaBrar_INC to speak to the police & retrieve CCTV footage! Anyone & everyone must be punished!

— Aman Panwar (@amanpanwar) August 10, 2017

Terrible thing to happen. We must meet and talk about it, so we can identify the culprit & take action accordingly. cc: @RajaBrar_INC

— Divya Spandana/Ramya (@divyaspandana) August 10, 2017

Then there were some who could not resist bringing politics into this

Your fault madam this was #IYC protest

— mercury arrow (@diparashar) August 10, 2017

make the video coverage public

— #Elite Blocked Baba (@sunny_congress) August 10, 2017

…..kaash culprit Modi jee kee party sae hota…….Aap ko kaafi samarthan miltaa……

— vikram singh Topwal (@vikram29121971) August 10, 2017

Well people from @TimesNow and @republic are always with an agenda..Let us definitely check the CCTV footage before forming any view @IYC

— rahul sharma (@iirahul) August 10, 2017

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