Several hundred people protesting the r@pe & kidnapping of a 5-year-old girl descended on police headquarters Saturday, waving signs, overrunning barriers & calling for the resignation of the capital city's police commissioner. Protesters gathered at Delhi Police Headquarters for the third day on Monday demanding removal of police commissioner Neeraj Kumar & justice for the five-year-old r@pe victim even as police put up barricades to prevent December-like protests near Parliament where traffic was disrupted. Much of the protesters' anger was directed at police, after allegations officers tried to bribe the family of the victim to not file a case, & video footage showed an officer slapping a woman demonstrator on Friday. Protesters burnt an effigy of the city's police chief outside the hospital where the girl was being treated, & demanded his resignation, television images showed. Another group shouted slogans outside police headquarters. 
Demanding justice & fast track courts, many people have rallied in protest in the capital in the days since the incident on Sunday night, when the physiotherapist intern was brutally assaulted & her male friend beaten in a moving bus. Both were stripped & dumped by the roadside near the domestic airport after the nearly 40-minute ordeal. Three Metro stations – Race Course Road, Central Secretariat & Udyog Bhavan – close to Parliament, India Gate & Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's residence were closed for public anticipating anti-r@pe protests.Read more...
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