They sought strict action and FIR against the police personnel who were on duty on December 16 when the ghastly incident took place in South Delhi, saying it has "exposed the practices of the Delhi Police" which have been unnoticed for long.
Former IPS officer and activist Kiran Bedi, who served with the Delhi Police for decades, said the policemen who arrived on the spot could have registered FIR on their own as no law prescribes that the document can be registered only under a particular police station.
"It is happening everyday. That is why people have lost faith in Police. This practice has been there for long and now they have been caught. There is no law that bars police from registering FIR. It can be registered at one station and then transferred," she said.
Bedi was reacting to the allegations by the male friend of the victim, who died on December 29 in a Singapore hospital, that three Police Control Room vans arrived at the scene only after about 45 minutes and wasted time in deciding under which police station's jurisdiction the case fell.
National Commission for Women chairperson Mamata Sharma sought "strict action" against the policemen and demanded that an FIR be lodged against the personnel on duty for the act.
"Two people were lying on the ground. Even on grounds of humanity, they should have been taken to a hospital. But the police did not do that," she said. (More)