Nagpur, August 21: Two senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leaders, including its Nagpur women’s wing chief, have been booked by Nagpur police for allegedly sharing the name and photograph of a gang rape victim on social media. According to a report published in Hindustan Times, Alka Kamble, president of Nagpur unit of NCP women’s wing and a couple of senior party activists went to meet the gangrape survivor at Umred on Saturday. They not only took photographs with the victim but also posted them on social media, along with her name.

According to the report, the NCP women activists posted the photographs and the name in the Facebook post mentioning about state party chief Jayant Patil’s visit to the hospital to meet the victim. Maharashtra State Women Commission member Neeta Thakare approached the police against the NCP activists. An FIR was also registered against Kamble and her fellow NCP leader Urvashi Giradkar under the section of 228A of the Indian Penal Code in connection with the case. The police are investigating the case with the help of the cyber cell.

The twenty-five-year-old woman employee of Western Coalfields Limited (WCL) was gang-raped and thrashed last week allegedly by some drivers who were transporting coal. At the time of the incident, she was working at a company weighbridge at Umred, around 50 km from Nagpur. The woman is now recovering at a private hospital.

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