NEW DELHI: The Unnao rape case survivor on Wednesday met leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi, a day after the Delhi high court suspended the life sentence of former BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar, the convict in the case.Speaking to the media, she expressed desire to also meet President Droupadi Murmu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Union home minister Amit Shah.The woman, who was a minor when Sengar committed the crime in June 2017, met Gandhi hours after the Congress leader, in a post on X, condemned the manhandling of the survivor by security forces at Delhi’s India Gate, where she was protesting the grant of bail to Sengar“Is such treatment of a gang rape survivor appropriate? Is it her ‘fault’ that she has the courage to raise her voice for justice? The fact that her perpetrator (former BJP MLA Sengar) has been granted bail is extremely disappointing and shameful—especially when the survivor is being repeatedly harassed and is living under the shadow of fear,” Gandhi wrote.“Bail for rapists and treating survivors like criminals—what kind of justice is this? We are not just becoming a dead economy—with such inhuman incidents, we are also turning into a dead society. The survivor deserves respect, safety and justice — not helplessness, fear, and injustice,” he added.Earlier, the survivor described the high court’s decision as ‘kaal (death)’ for her family and said she would challenge it in the Supreme Court.
