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Women Demand Legal Action Against Rapists
BY KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
On November 29, 2009, women of eleven districts of far western region have accused Home Minister including high government officials of trying to scrap the case of raping the policewoman by her colleagues while on duty, of transferring DIG Prativa Thapa from the office at Dhanagadi to Kathmandu allegedly for discontinuing the case of the policemen raping their colleague according to the state-run newspaper ‘The Rising Nepal’ of November 30, 2009. So, the women of the eleven districts demanded the Home Minister to reinstate DIG Prativa Thapa to the Dhanagadi office, and demanded legal actions against the six policemen raping their colleague on duty in Accham, far western Nepal. DIG Prativa Thapa has started actions against the six policemen for raping their woman colleague on duty. The women of far western eleven districts such as Kailali, Kanchanpur, Banke, Bardiya, Dadeldhura, Baitadi, Darchula, Accham, Bajhang, Doti and Bajura have started off the 16-day campaign against violence against women.
