NCW chief to visit family of AAP worker who killed self

NCW Chairperson Lalitha Kumaramangalam will tomorrow pay a visit to the family of a woman AAP worker who committed suicide by consuming poison in Narela area of Delhi.
The National Commission for Women (NCW) chief was due to travel to Chennai but cancelled her visit.
"We will visit the family to provide moral support, not for any political reason. In such cases, where celebrities or people in power, often get away with impunity and that is why we have decided to step in and get her family justice in whatever way we can," she said today.
The victim's family members have claimed that she committed suicide because she had gone into depression after her alleged molester, a party colleague, was released on bail.

The woman had filed a complaint against party colleague Ramesh Bharadwaj for allegedly touching her inappropriately and a case of molestation was registered in June and the accused was arrested.
The NCW chief said, "I have been told by Delhi Police Commissioner Alok Verma that a Special Investigation Team has been constituted and will comprise a Joint Commissioner, Deputy Commissioner, two inspectors and Assistant Commissioner... Also, the police have addded the abetment to suicide charge as well on the basis of the victim's dying declaration."
The NCW chairperson also hit out at Delhi Commission for Women where the victim had filed a complaint, and said, "had DCW taken a strong step and provided her security may be she would have been alive today.