An Online Petition has demanded immediate action against the rogue policemen of Godhra B Division Police Station, who allegedly violently assaulted and sexually molested the women of Hathila plot Godhra on Decmber 19 and 20 last.
“On December 19, a police party from Godhra B Division police station launched a barbaric attack on the defenceless women in Hathila plot (Near Urdu School) in Godhra. They were reportedly pursuing an accused alleged of cow-slaughter. The police launched this attack on the women in Hathila plot under the pretext that they were sheltering the main accused. This happened at around 10.00 p.m. in the middle of the night and continued right till 1.00 a.m. (December 20). The police forcibly entered a number of houses and started beating up the innocent women. They verbally and physically assaulted the defenceless women in their houses and after terrorising the community for over an hour, 8 women were dragged away. The women were illegally detained on false and frivolous charges and pushed into the police vehicles, in blatant violation of the guideline that women cannot be arrested and taken into custody without the presence of women constables. And this happened well past midnight,” said the petition signed by a number of human rights activists including Prof. J.S.Bandukwalla, Sheba George, Nafisa Barot, Meera Rafi, Rafi Malek, Prasad Chacko, Rohit Prajapati, and Johanna Lokhande.