A woman lawyer from Chhattisgarh created a flutter inside the Chief Justice of India’s courtroom on Monday after she claimed to have consumed a poisonous substance to highlight the police inaction in a gang-rape case she filed.
The woman began to cry as the bench of Chief Justice R M Lodha and Justices Kurian Joseph and R F Nariman were about to rise. The woman said she was denied justice in the gang-rape case lodged in November against her brothers-in-law and others.
Since the woman was barely audible, the bench asked another woman advocate to console her and explain the matter. After speaking to the victim, the advocate told the bench that the woman had consumed naphthalene balls.
Directing the police to take the woman immediately to a dispensary on the court premises, the bench decided to take suo motu cognisance of her plea and listed her case for hearing on Tuesday.
The woman was later rushed to R M L Hospital here. The Delhi Police recorded her statement but decided not to file any case on her charges.
Additional Commissioner of Police (New Delhi) S B S Tyagi said a team from Tughlak Road police station had recorded the statement, but no case would be filed.
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