Moga incident: Women body demands FIR against bus firm owners

Expressing grief over death of a teenage girl after being molested and thrown off a moving bus belonging to the ruling Badal family in Punjab, a women's body today demanded lodging an FIR against owners of the transport firm that owned the vehicle in which the incident took place.
The All India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA) also demanded the state government to offer Rs one crore compensation to the kin of the deceased and proper medical treatment to the girl's mother who too was thrown off the bus during the three-day-old incident and sustained injuries.
The AIDWA, after its representatives met relatives of the girl, also stressed on framing norms to ensure safety of women aboard vehicles owned by private operators.

"Under the circumstances, the AIDWA demands immediate FIRs be lodged against owners and management of Orbit Aviation. A minimum of Rs one crore compensation to be paid to the family of the deceased," AIDWA General Secretary Jagmati Sangwan, who led the delegation which met the family of the girl in Punjab's Moga district, said in a statement.
Earlier, Sangwan also addressed people who staged dharna outside the hospital where the mother of the girl is recuperating.
"The body of the 13-year-old has not been taken for cremation by the protesting family. Her mother told that there was no CCTV camera in the bus, there were curtains all around and both the conductor and driver spoke utterly filthy language," Sangwan added.

The mother-daughter duo was allegedly molested and thrown out of a running bus, killing the girl and seriously injuring her mother during the April 29 incident.
The incident occurred near Gill village on Moga-Kotkapura road, about 10 km from Moga district headquarters, and four persons including the driver, cleaner and conductor of the bus have been arrested.