Soumya Viswanathan, 27, who worked as a producer with Headlines Today, was returning home at three in the morning from office. She phoned her father to say that she would be home in fifteen minutes. But she was found dead in her car on Nelson Mandela Road in Vasant Kunj locality. Her car was rammed into the road divider and she had a bullet injury in her head. Soumya Viswanathan was taken to AIIMS where she was declared brought dead.
What our learned Chief Minister has to say about the incident?
“All by herself till 3 am at night in a city where people believe…you know…you should not be so adventurous.”
What would our Chief Minister, Sheila Dikshit would have said if she would have been murdered after coming out from a disc or pub? That such “type” of women deserve this kind of death. They are luring the criminals into killing them? What Sheila Dikshit have said about the outrage her remark caused, to a Congress News Network (CNN-IBN) programme “Devil’s Advocate” anchored by I can’t remember his name but only his English accent.
“It horrified me enormously…I am a woman myself. I have three sisters; I have two grand daughters. I think what I said was really blown out of proportion,” Dikshit told Karan Thapar’s Devil’s Advocate programme on CNN-IBN.
“I used the phrase adventurous in two ways that travelling at three in the morning is not a safe thing for anybody to do and above all I think even for boys, travelling after 9 in the evening. Companies employing young girls and boys 24 hours for that matter should provide escort for the safety of our girls and boys,” she said.
Wow! You have sisters and granddaughters! But they have the blessings of a certain Madame from Congress party. Soumya Viswanathan didn’t chose to born to that dynasty! Too bad for her. And if the company have to ensure the safety on the roads of Delhi, then please step down as a Chief Minister and spare us the agony of your scholarly remarks.
Hi,Alka-that’s such a nice and easy way out for people,na-just make some silly excuse,like the hon’ble lady did,namely,that companies should provide escort…indirectly, I guess it’s a way to say ‘we are helpless,so you have to help yourselves’.
She admitted that she was helpless. Though I agree to that fact that companies should provide security if they are making most employees slog till late night. While working as a consultant in India, I was always very late for nearly 5 years. I hated that.
Amit, this lady (calling her a lady seems ridiculous) has a habit of putting her foot in her mouth.
Tanmoy, I read your blog regularly. It feels good that you are writing regularly. I think the news channels do provide conveyance for employees working late in night. But it was Saumya who chose to drive on her own and paid the price.