New Delhi: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi has asked the Chief minister of Karnataka for a detailed report on the brutal assault on Tanzanian student in Bengaluru.
Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh on Thursday in a series of tweets confirmed the news.
“Strongly condemn Incident with the Tanzanian Lady in Bangalore. Police must act strongly against the culprits. Rahul Gandhi asks Karnataka Govt to explain and send report immediately,” Singh tweeted.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj had yesterday condemned the attack on the Tanzanian student and asked for stringent punishment for the guilty.
“I have asked the Chief Minister (Siddaramaiah) to ensure safety and security of all foreign students and stringent punishment for the guilty,” Swaraj said in a tweet.
“I spoke to the Chief Minister Karnataka. He informed me that a criminal case has been registered and four accused have been arrested,” she added.
Meanwhile, the Bengaluru Police have arrested five people in this connection. They have also filed an FIR against some unknown persons in connection with the assault on a 21-year-old Tanzanian student.
The Tanzanian student was beaten and then stripped by a group of locals in Bengaluru after they assumed she was part of an incident in which a Sudanese man had run over a local woman at Hesaraghatta Road.
Angry mob waylaid the second car that arrived on the scene a full 30 minutes later, in which the girl was travelling. She had absolutely nothing to do with the car that ran over the local woman. The angry mob dragged her out of the car and stripped her after she was surrounded and stopped by the mob. The mob also assaulted a concerned bystander who tried to cover her with a T-shirt. When the girl tried to escape by getting into a bus, the passengers of the bus threw her back into the arms of the mob. The four others who were travelling in the car were also beaten and the car was set ablaze.
Meanwhile, when the girl went to the police station to file a complaint, the cops were unsympathetic and refused to register the case and also reportedly asked her to bring in the driver who ran over the 35-year-old woman.
