Bajwa demands judicial probe into molestation and death of young girl

Moga/Chandigarh, April 30: The murder of a young dalit girl who jumped out from a speeding bus belonging to a transport company that is owned and controlled by Sukhbir Singh Badal and other members of the Badal family demonstrate the lawlessness and anarchy that is prevalent in the State of Punjab. It is imperative to indicate that the Deputy Chief Minister of Punjab, Mr. Sukhbir Singh Badal and his family members are majority shareholders of the company and hence the transport company has always been given preferential treatment enabling them to violate the law with impunity. This is not the first such incident of lawlessness concerning Orbit Transport and unfortunately such incidents have become a norm in Punjab.It is shocking that a company which is being run and controlled by the Deputy Chief Minister of Punjab has failed to even have minimum safety and security standards for women and instead of preventing any untoward incidents on their buses, the employees of Orbit Transport themselves indulged in such horrendous acts of harassment and molestation compelling a young girl and her mother to jump from a moving bus in order to protect their honour. The sense of impunity with which associates and cronies of the Badal family run amok in Punjab stems from the belief that they will be protected by none other than the highest echelons of the Badal family. The Badal family today stands completely exposed on the issue of women empowerment and protection of girl child through its programmes such as Nanhi Chaan, etc as a young girl has been murdered and to add salt on the aggrieved family’s wounds, Mrs. Harsimrat Kaur Badal feigned ignorance about the ownership of this transport company by her husband and other family members.