Istri Jagriti Manch to protest police inaction on complaints by women

Members of the Istri Jagriti Manch will hold a protest at the Desh Bhagat Yadgaar Hall on Sunday —on the occasion of Republic Day — against the inaction in various cases involving police complaints by women. The committee members then plan to march to the Guru Gobind Singh Stadium.

While a delegation of the manch also submitted a demand letter to the police regarding two specific cases on January 20. Requisite action was initiated in one of case after their complaint, and action in another case is still awaited.

A public delegation of the Istri Jagriti Manch had also met ACP Barjinder Singh (in the absence of the Commissioner of Police) on January 20 and demanded filing of a challan in a case registered by the Sadar Jamsher Police concerning the 2022 suicide of a young hockey coach Hardeep Kaur, resident of Samrai village. After this, the challan had been filed. The activists have also demanded strict punishment against culprits. The second case taken up by activists was regarding an elderly woman Kuldeep Kaur, whose house had allegedly been tried to be illegally occupied by relatives. The organisation has sought action in this case against the relatives.

The manch’s state press secretary Jasvir Kaur Jassi said due to delay in filing FIRs or due to other kinds of delayed action, women’s hopes for justice was often diminished.

The manch, in the letter to the Police Commissioner, also alleged that the elderly woman had been evicted by her son Paramjit Singh and his wife, a resident of Kala Sanghia, who tried to illegally occupy her house in New Dashmesh Nagar. They cited application number 2984 PTOO dated August 2, 2024, marked to ACP West, and further written to SHO Bhargo Camp by the ACP in the case but no case had been registered yet.

The activists visited the commissioner’s office again today with the elderly woman victim and met the ACP West. They were assured that action would be taken in the case.