Over the past two days, Kundu has been the target of criticism, slander, and contempt. “It is a well-established tactic to intimidate me so that I back off…But what would have been the case if those guys had caught me?”

The two men, after their arrest, said ‘it was a mistake’, according to Kundu. “A mistake doesn’t last that long, can’t be so intense? A mistake can’t go on for kilometers…They are apologizing because I saved myself. If I hadn’t been saved, who would they have apologized to?” she asked.

 

Varnika’s father Virender Kundu, a senior bureaucrat, said: “In my mind, there is no difference between killing a fetus and a girl as a human being. If a country can’t make a woman feel like equal citizens, what kind of a society are we? Are we barbaric?”

Virender Kundu also deplored the comments of Ramveer Bhatti and scoffed: “They have no sense of propriety…they are prehistoric animals, belong thousands of years ago.”