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‘Pakistan Zindabad’ slogan at India Gate lands woman in jail

January 13, 2019

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india-rights-panel-says-police-raped-at-least-16-tribal-women-in-maoist-stronghold — Indian policemen stand guard at the District Court complex where a new fast-track court was inaugurated Wednesday to deal specifically with crimes against women, in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013. Indian police were preparing Thursday to file rape and murder charges against a group of men accused of sexually assaulting a 23-year-old university student for hours on a moving bus in New Delhi. The Dec. 16 attack on the woman, who later died of her injuries, has caused outrage across India, sparking protests and demands for tough new rape laws, better police protection for women and a sustained campaign to change society's views about women. (AP Photo/ Manish Swarup)

NEW DELHI: India has become more extremist under the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the same “anti-Pakistan, anti-Muslim” tactic is being applied to win the next polls due later this year.

On Sunday, a 30-year-old woman was arrested from New Dehli’s India Gate when she raised a “Pakistan Zindabad” slogan, India media reported.

Sultana Khan, in her mid-thirties, was picked up by New Delhi police for raising anti-India slogans.

At about 8 am, she was spotted by the security guards throwing a slipper at the soldiers’ memorial. When the guards alerted the police, she raised “Pakistan Zindabad” slogan in the presence of security personnel.

The police claim that she seemed to be mentally unstable and was sent for medical examination.