A video has gone viral on social media in which a US woman, who was sexually assaulted in Delhi in 2013, has slammed the Indian legal system for giving bail to the convict in the case.
In the video, the victim had posted on her Facebook page on July 30, alleged that she was notified that ‘the man who broke into her apartment and viciously attacked her and who she had to fight to get him convicted” was given a bail.
Narrating her ordeal to get justice, she said she had to travel all the way to India alone to testify in the case but now the man was given bail by a ‘corrupt judge’.
The woman further said that she now has to take the case for appeal in the High Court or the Supreme Court of India. She had come to the Indian consulate to get the papers notorized to appeal in the higher courts in India.
The victim went on criticising the ‘corrupt Indian bureaucracy’ as the consulate allegedly told her to get the papers notorized from the Indian consulate in Sacramento, California. She went on asking for help from people to ensure that justice was served to her in the case.
The incident took place in 2013 when Rajeev Panwar, nephew of former Delhi mayor Jayshree Panwar, was arrested for the alleged offence committed in his flat rented to the foreigners.
According to the complaint, on June 24, 2013 night Panwar, after partying with the US woman, her husband and a Russian woman, trespassed into the US woman’s flat and molested her while she was sleeping.
Panwar has been held guilty of digital rape of the US woman and was sentenced for a seven-year imprisonment by a Delhi court in February 2019. The court had observed that the victim’s testimony could not be said to be unreliable as she came all the way from her country to depose in the case.