'Stop victim shaming': DCW chief

New Delhi: Delhi Commission for Women chief Swati Maliwal on Tuesday slammed "cheap statements" being shown on TV in connection with the Kanjhawala case, and asked people to stop victim-shaming. She also demanded that the claims made by Anjali Singh's friend, who was with her at the time of the accident but fled the spot out of fear, should also be probed.

Singh was killed in the early hours of Sunday after her scooter was hit by a car, which dragged her for 12 km. Her body was found in outer Delhi's Kanjhawala area. All five accused were sent to three days in police custody on

Monday.

According to sources, the victim and her female friend were partying with four or five of their other friends in a hotel.

In a tweet in Hindi, Maliwal said, "Cheap statements of the hotel owner are being shown on TV since morning wherein he is saying that the women had consumed alcohol, were fighting and he had thrown them out. If the women were fighting after getting drunk, police would have been called. Why were they kicked out of the hotel late at night? What is the proof of intoxication? STOP VICTIM SHAMING!"