Protests After 2 Nursery Girls Sexually Assaulted In Thane School

[Moon_Walker]

Mumbai: 

The massive protest in Maharashtra's Thane over the sexual assault of two four-year-old girls at a school,  has been quelled by police batons and tear gas.  The Badlapur railway station that was a seething mass of slogan-shouting people for over six hours, emptied in a matter of seconds and a huge police force cracked down. People - many of them sitting down on the railway tracks -- started running as batons flashed.  From the other side of the station, protesters responded with stones, till the station turned into a war zone. But the police prevailed, giving chase to the protesters as they ran helter skelter. 

The outrage over the sexual assault has grown as more details emerged. Thousands of protesters had flocked to the local train station in Badlapur in the morning and blocked the movement of trains. Six hours on, the crowds grew, leading to concerns about train movement and law and order.  The government's efforts to defuse the tension was answered by chants of 'hang, hang" from the crowd, who are demanding the death penalty for the 23-year-old cleaner allegedly involved. 

 

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