Furious at the statement Varnika lashed out saying, “It is none of his business, it is my business and my family’s what I do and where…If it wasn’t for men like these, I wouldn’t be unsafe going out… whether it was 12 am or 2 am or 4 am.” “If it happens at night it’s my fault? Can the men not control their urges at night? Why am I being questioned? I am the one who was under attack…but they are not questioned…”
“If it happens at night it’s my fault? Can the men not control their urges at night? Why am I being questioned? I am the one who was under attack…but they are not questioned..,” she further added in an interview with NDTV.
“My hands shaking, my back spasming from fear, half in tears, half bewildered, because I didn’t know if I’d make it home tonight. Who knew when, or if, the cops would show up,” the woman, the daughter of a senior Haryana bureaucrat, wrote in a Facebook post prefaced ‘WAS ALMOST KIDNAPPED ON A CHANDIGARH ROAD LAST NIGHT’. The DJ shared this on her Facebook that later went viral.
Kundu shared an account of a terrifying chase on the streets of Chandigarh on Friday after midnight when 23-year-old Vikas Barala and his friend tailgated her in their SUV, tried to block her, banged on her window and tried to force open her door. A police patrol team responded to her desperate SOS and arrived, witnessing one of the men banging on her window.
BJP sources have ruled out Barala’s resignation, which, according to critics, reinforces speculation about cover-up attempts.
The police arrested the two but they were charged with stalking and not kidnapping – a charge that is non-bailable. The accused were out within hours of their arrest.
Though she complained about the intention of the men to abduct her, the police have only added a “wrongful restraint” charge to her FIR of stalking. CCTV cameras are missing from the road where she was chased, raising questions about a cover-up.
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.”