Hyderabad Case: Swati Maliwal’s Indefinite Hunger Strike Enters Day 2; Shifted To Raj Ghat

Maliwal said that she was no longer being allowed to protest at Jantar Mantar area by Delhi police and was being shifted to Raj Ghat and would continue her protest from there.

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New Delhi: Delhi Commission For Women (DCW) chief Swati Maliwal shifted her hunger strike sit-in against the recent rape incidents in India including the Hyderabad gangrape and murder case, to Raj Ghat on Tuesday night and said she would continue the strike for an indefinite period from the new venue. She said that she was no longer being allowed to protest at Jantar Mantar area by Delhi police and was being shifted to Raj Ghat. "I am being told by Delhi police that I can no longer sit in Jantar Mantar, they are shifting me to Raj Ghat, and I am continuing my indefinite strike", Mailwal said. Earlier on Tuesday, she had said that the police was trying to disrupt her indefinite hunger strike over the Hyderabad incident. "Delhi Police is time and again trying to stop us from holding the indefinite hunger strike. They are trying to make us leave from Jantar Mantar and are also not letting us know where to go so that we can continue our fight for women's rights," Maliwal had told news agency ANI. She had however asserted that her indefinite hunger strike will not end, irrespective of whatever actions the police might take, and urged the officials to help them in their endeavour. Maliwal is on an indefinite hunger strike, demanding strict and swift punishment to the convicts in such cases. Maliwal said she has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, demanding that rapists be hanged within six months of their conviction. "My demand to PM is that we want capital punishment for the rapists of minor and major victims. The accused in the Hyderabad case must be hanged. Last year, I sat on protest and within 10 days, the government made a law that the rapists of minors will get capital punishment within six months, but this did not happen.”