Ugandan women file complaint, report harassment and racism
19 Jan 2014 5:23 AM IST
Four Ugandan nationals on Friday registered a police case against ‘unknown persons’ for misbehaving with them during the Wednesday night raid by a Delhi minister and his party cadre, said police officials.
Delhi law and tourism minister Somnath Bharti along with Aam Aadmi Party cadre and electronic media carried out a raid in Khirki Extension of south Delhi. ‘Africans residing in the colony are sex workers and drug peddlers who are breeding under the nose of Delhi police,’ Bharti had claimed.
Reacting to the incident, Amnesty International India chief executive G Ananthapadmanabhan said that the arbitrary detention and manhandling reflect poorly on standards expected of the newly-formed Delhi government. ‘The government must respect due process of law and rights of those suspected of crimes,’ he said.
Speaking to Millennium Post, a Ugandan national, who was allegedly held hostage in a taxi for more than three hours, claimed that she along with three other Uganda nationals have filed a complaint with the Uganda High Commission saying the ‘unknown people’ humiliated them and passed racial comments. ‘Also, complaints have been filed at Delhi Commission for Women, National Commission for Women (NCW) and National Human Rights Commission,’ she said.
Sources said a complaint was also filed at Malviya Nagar police station, senior officers, however, neither confirmed nor denied the news of the complaint.
‘It’s a shame for Delhi’s newly-formed government where the law and tourism minister is harassing foreigners by calling them drug peddlers and sex workers,’ the victim sighed.
Johnson, a resident of Khirki Extension who hails from Africa and witnessed the four-hours long investigation, said, ‘I agree that in the recent past few Nigerians have been arrested for drug peddling in the national capital, but it does not mean that we all fall in the same category.’
Receiving the complaint, Mamta Sharma, NCW chairperson said, ‘The work of these ministers is administrative. They need to get mature else they will have to pay for their outrageous behaviour.’
Since the horrifying torture by the minister and his party workers, the victimised girls have locked themselves in their rented accommodation to evade public scrutiny.
Delhi law and tourism minister Somnath Bharti along with Aam Aadmi Party cadre and electronic media carried out a raid in Khirki Extension of south Delhi. ‘Africans residing in the colony are sex workers and drug peddlers who are breeding under the nose of Delhi police,’ Bharti had claimed.
Reacting to the incident, Amnesty International India chief executive G Ananthapadmanabhan said that the arbitrary detention and manhandling reflect poorly on standards expected of the newly-formed Delhi government. ‘The government must respect due process of law and rights of those suspected of crimes,’ he said.
Speaking to Millennium Post, a Ugandan national, who was allegedly held hostage in a taxi for more than three hours, claimed that she along with three other Uganda nationals have filed a complaint with the Uganda High Commission saying the ‘unknown people’ humiliated them and passed racial comments. ‘Also, complaints have been filed at Delhi Commission for Women, National Commission for Women (NCW) and National Human Rights Commission,’ she said.
Sources said a complaint was also filed at Malviya Nagar police station, senior officers, however, neither confirmed nor denied the news of the complaint.
‘It’s a shame for Delhi’s newly-formed government where the law and tourism minister is harassing foreigners by calling them drug peddlers and sex workers,’ the victim sighed.
Johnson, a resident of Khirki Extension who hails from Africa and witnessed the four-hours long investigation, said, ‘I agree that in the recent past few Nigerians have been arrested for drug peddling in the national capital, but it does not mean that we all fall in the same category.’
Receiving the complaint, Mamta Sharma, NCW chairperson said, ‘The work of these ministers is administrative. They need to get mature else they will have to pay for their outrageous behaviour.’
Since the horrifying torture by the minister and his party workers, the victimised girls have locked themselves in their rented accommodation to evade public scrutiny.
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