Kolkata: Unnao and Kathua rape cases have made Indians take on to the streets to protest and demand justice in both the cases. In both incidents, either the the ruling party’s leaders where complicit in the crime or defending it. The inaction and unwilling attitude of the government to deliver justice made the citizens to hit the street. The brutality in Kathua gang rape and brutal murder of a child belonging to Jammu’s nomadic tribe Bakerwal shook the collective conscience of the society. Not just Bollywood, civil society but common people of Kolkata, Jaipur, Bhopal, Ranchi, Sikar and Giridih came forward to express their anger and outrage.
A girl almost the age of Asifa, hold a placard demanding justice for the 8-year-old, in Giridih, Jharkhand
A little girl holding placard during a protest march at Kolkata’s Jadavpur area
Another candle light vigil was organized at the Press Club of Kolkata
Bhopal too witnessed a candle light protest on the intervening night of April 13
Candle light vigil at Rajsthan’s Sikar district
On April 14, several NGOs demanded justice for Asifa, Unnao, and for atrocities against dalits in Jaipur
