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Girl jumps off Badal’s family bus, dies
A 14-year-old girl was killed and her mother seriously injured when they allegedly jumped off a moving bus to avoid a group of molesters in Punjab’s Moga district, police said on Thursday, highlighting the lack of security for women in public transport.
Moga/Chandigarh: A 14-year-old girl was killed and her mother seriously injured when they allegedly jumped off a moving bus to avoid a group of molesters in Punjab’s Moga district, police said on Thursday, highlighting the lack of security for women in public transport. They were forced to jump off a moving bus to protect their modesty. The family has filed a complaint with the police. The bus has been impounded.
The incident took place on the Moga-Bathinda highway, about 10 km from the district headquarters. The death of the girl sparked outrage in Punjab, with the Opposition demanding action against the ruling Badal family which owned the bus. Police said that four people, including the bus driver, conductor and helper, were arrested on Thursday, and a case of murder, attempt to murder and molestation slapped on them.
The bus belongs to Orbit Aviation Company which is owned by Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal, who also holds the Home portfolio as well as being president of the ruling Akali Dal, and his wife and union minister Harsimrat Badal. The victim, Arshdeep Kaur, was declared dead by doctors at the Moga civil hospital while her mother, Shinder Kaur, was admitted in a serious condition.
Shinder Kaur, 36, told the media from her hospital bed that they complained about the molestation to the bus driver but he mocked at them and started speeding the vehicle. She said that no one helped them inside the bus and alleged that she and her daughter were pushed out of the moving bus by the molesters. The family of three, including a 14-year-old boy, had boarded the bus at Moga town for Baghapurana town, which is 20 km away, on Wednesday evening.
The mother and daughter were soon targeted with indecent gestures and molestation. Embarrassed by the incident involving the staff of a bus owned by his son, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal said he was "deeply pained" by the incident. "I don't know anything about the bus company. I have nothing to do with it. I have never been to its office," Badal told the media in Chandigarh. He admitted that Sukhbir Badal owned the Orbit Bus Company.
In New Delhi, the Lok Sabha was disrupted when the Congress and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) members sought a discussion on the death of the teenage girl. Congress MP Ravneet Singh Bittu and AAP's Bhagwant Mann and Dharamvir Gandhi raised the issue but Speaker Sumitra Mahajan disallowed a discussion saying they can raise it only during zero hour.
