Indira Jaising withdraws from activist's case
The woman alleged that he had raped her in a flat in Batla House area.
NEW DELHI: Amid rape accusation against Talib Hussain — the activist who led the protests for justice in the gang-rape and murder of the eight-year-old girl in Jammu’s Kathua, Senior advocate Indira Jaising has decided to withdraw from his case.
Ms Jaising, who was representing Talib Hussain pro bono after his family alleged he was tortured in police custody for “championing the cause of the nomad community” during Kathua protests, said, “I don’t intend to continue to appear on behalf of Talib Hussain anymore. In my opinion the allegations made in an article are sufficient cause for me to take the decision to withdraw from this case.”
The anonymous account of a Jawaharlal Nehru University student, which did not name the attacker, but said he was a prominent activist in the Kathua rape case, was published by a news website on Saturday. The woman alleged that he had raped her in a flat in Batla House area.
In the article, the woman details the chain of events that led to the alleged assault in April. Before that, he had even proposed marriage to her, which she had turned down, she wrote. She added, “his intention (of nikaah) was not just to deceive me, it was also intended to assure himself that he is not from the same category of the men who raped and murdered the 8-year-old.