NGO exec's suicide: Police sends team to rape victim's hometown

A day after Khurshid Anwar, the executive director for Delhi-based NGO Institute for Social Democracy, committed suicide after being accused of raping a 24-year-old girl from Manipur, the Delhi police has sent a team to the complainant’s hometown. Deputy Commissioner of Police (South) BS Jaiswal told the Indian Express , “A team has been sent to the complainant’s hometown. We will need her statement to proceed with the case. We can proceed with the investigations only after we record her statement.” [caption id=“attachment_1298227” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Representational image. AFP[/caption] The complainant was a volunteer with the NGO Boond and had met Anwar at a dinner party hosted at his home on 12 September, which is when the alleged rape took place. The victim had then sought the help of activist and editor of Manushi, Madhu Kishwar, who had video-recorded her statement. Kishwar had told Firstpost ,“The girl was very shaken, she was facing problems at home as her mother and aunt were sick and she needed money for their treatment. She was under a lot of pressure to not follow the case.” The matter was later taken up by the National Commission for Women (NCW) which forwarded the girl’s complaint to the police. The police registered an FIR against Anwar on the basis of NCW’s complaint on Tuesday evening. The police had also found a note in Anwar’s home after he committed suicide. The note said that “I am upset about the way the girl is campaigning against me without any fault of mine, and maligning my 30 years of career and reputation.” Police refused to confirm whether it was a suicide note.