Rajasthan Women Commission member takes selfie with rape survivor, OUTRAGE FORCES HER TO QUIT
The chairperson Suman Sharma is also in the selfie along with the member
The Press Trust of India (PTI) reported this morning that a selfie clicked by the member of Rajasthan State Commission for Women with a rape victim courted controversy prompting the chairperson of the commission to seek a written explanation. By late evening the outrage had forced Suman Sharma to quit.
Interestingly, the Chairperson Suman Sharma is also in the selfie along with the member Somya Gurjar. The selfie was clicked by Gurjar on Tuesday when she along with chairperson had gone to meet the rape victim in Mahila police station (Jaipur North).
"I was talking to the victim when the member of the commission clicked these selfies. I am not aware when she (Somya Gurjar) clicked. I do not favour such act and has sought a written explanation from her. She has been asked to submit the explanation by tomorrow," Sharma told PTI.
Interestingly, two pictures, in which Gurjar is seen clicking the selfie, got viral on WhatsApp on Wednesday. Both Gurjar and Sharma are in the frame of the selfie and the pictures of the act were clicked by someone standing near them in the chamber of the police officer.
In the pictures, Gurjar is seen holding the mobile device and the Chairperson is also looking in the frame (of the selfie).
The selfie culture has been pioneered by Narendra Modi ever since he was chief minister of Gujarat and encouraged the cult following around him. The famed victory sign as he emerged out of the voting booth in Vadodara resulted in a court challenge to the ethics of the move.
A year to the day today, June 30, 2015, the ‘Mann Ki Baat’ of Narendra Modi, took Twitter by storm on Sunday when he asked people to post selfies with their daughters. The hashtag #SelfieWithDaughter soon started trending worldwide, with several fathers as well as mothers tweeting pictures of themselves with their daughters.
A prompt brake to the selfie storm came when, daughter of slain parliamentarian, Ahsan Jafri shared her photograph with her revered father. Nishrin Jafri is the daughter of Ahsan Jafri, a former Congress MP who was brutally murdered in the Gulbarg society massacre in 2002 along with 69 Muslims by a Hindu mob. Ehsan Jafri’s wife Zakia Jafri continues to hold the then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi for being complicit in the riots.
In a shocking incident in Alwar district, a 30-year-old woman was allegedly raped by her husband and his two brothers who tattooed expletives on her forehead and hand for not giving Rs 51,000 as the dowry.
On Monday, an FIR was registered under sections of 498-A (Protection of Women Against Domestic Violence Act), 376 (punishment for rape) and 406 (punishment for criminal breach of trust) of IPC and an investigation in the case has been initiated.