Gurugram: A 19-year-old Delhi-based girl student was allegedly raped several times over a year by her Instagram friend, who also threatened to kill her, police said on Thursday.
The victim, who had first met the man when she was underage, moved to police after he started blackmailing her into sleeping with his friends.
According to the complaint she filed on Wednesday, she had met one Abhishek, a Gurugram resident, in July 2020 through Instagram. She met him first in a park in Gurugram.
“In September 2021 we met again in MGF mall from where he took me to a guest house in DLF Phase-2 area where he raped me,” said the BA first year student.
From thereon, the accused would often call her and submit her to have sex with him. According to the complainant, the accused raped her several times in a hotel in Manesar, police said.
“He started blackmailing me and once again raped me in September last year,” she said.
Following her complaint, an FIR was registered against the accused, Abhishek, under Section 6 of POCSO Sct as the victim was minor in 2020, and Section 506 (criminal intimidation) of the IPC at DLF Phase 2 Police Station on Wednesday.
A senior police officer said that after a medical examination, the victim was produced in a city court for her testimony under section 164 of CrPC.
“We are conducting raids to nab the accused and he will be arrested soon,” the officer added.
Dame Vivienne Westwood’s son has called for his mother’s “dear friend” Julian Assange to be freed during an address at the late designer’s memorial.
In a tribute delivered from the pulpit at Southwark Cathedral, the activist Joseph Corré praised his mother’s clothes, their relationship and her legacy. “To Vivienne, punk was a political idea not a social one,” he said, before criticising the “trumped up accusations from a corrupt establishment” that had meant that, despite the family’s best efforts, Assange was not present at the service.
In a memorial that was equal parts political statement and fashion veneration, several hundred guests from both camps turned up to celebrate the life and political legacy of the designer, style icon and environmental activist who died on 29 December aged 81.
Among the speakers were the former Greenpeace executive director John Sauven, who praised Westwood’s efforts to bring attention to the climate crisis and environmentalism.
Westwood’s second husband, Andreas Kronthaler, whom she married in 1993 after they met when she was teaching fashion design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, where Kronthaler was a student, also spoke. Wearing a Westwood kilt suit, the designer and creative director of her company was visibly moved as he recalled their secret trysts in the late 80s.
Helena Bonham Carter also delivered a eulogy in which she described herself as a “Westwood worshipper”, and attempted to incite Kate Moss into declaring a national day of dressing up as Westwood. The actor said she had “an obscene amount of clothes, which Vivienne would not have liked with her ‘buy less’ manifesto”.
Helena Bonham Carter wore a red Westwood two-piece. Photograph: Neil Mockford/GC Images
She also recalled buying a Westwood pirate shirt aged 15 so she could look like Adam Ant, and said she always wore the designer’s coquette dresses (she owns seven) to red carpet events. “They are instant body engineering, an aesthetic protest,” Bonham Carter said. They also meant she could have “a full-fat English breakfast” before getting dressed. “If it wasn’t for Vivienne, I’d be naked.”
The Rev Andrew Nunn praised the turnout, revealing that King Charles and the queen consort had been “unexpectedly” due to attend (it is thought they cancelled on health grounds). Westwood designed her polemic God Save the Queen T-shirts in protest at the silver jubilee, but later accepted an OBE.
Sitting on the second row for perhaps the first time in their collective careers were the Vogue editor, Edward Enninful, the US Vogue editor, Anna Wintour, designers Victoria Beckham and Marc Jacobs, and Westwood muse Kate Moss. Also in attendance were Christina Hendricks in a tartan wrap coat, Joely Richardson and Vanessa Redgrave in camel-coloured jackets, Stormzy in a black suitand Richard E Grant wearing a fascinator.
The guests mostly wore black and plaid versions of Westwood creations, though a dress code – which was sent to everyone and based on Westwood’s mantra of “If in doubt, dress up!” – was closely followed by guests in “mini-crinolines” and clan tartans, which shaped her most famous work.
Jonathan Ross wore a No Future blue jumper by Westwood, Bob Geldof was in head-to-toe Westwood beige tartan, Zandra Rhodes wore a red jumpsuit and leather jacket, and Bonham Carter came in a red Westwood two-piece she had previously worn to collect her CBE.
The cathedral was decked out in Highland-inspired bouquets dotted with mimosa. The service began with Abba’s Slipping Through My Fingers played by the Arnfield Brass, a band situated just over the river from the Derbyshire village of Tintwistle, where Westwood grew up.
In between the eulogies and tributes, Nick Cave performed a moving rendition of Into My Arms at a grand piano, and Chrissie Hynde sang Raining In My heart, which she dedicated to “her friend”. Hynde met Westwood while working at her Kings Road shop, Sex, in the early 1970s.
(From left) Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson and Nick Cave leave the memorial service. Photograph: Jeff Spicer/Getty Images
Speaking in a filmed tribute months before her death, Westwood said activism was her priority, and fashion was her therapy: “I just liked doing it,” she said. Corre also revealed that Westwood had been working on a book before her death, and that she had also become a follower of Taoism, though he added the designer “was not a religious person”.
Often described as the enfant terrible of the fashion world, Westwood burst on to the fashion scene in the 1970s, dressing Adam Ant and the Sex Pistols in leather jackets, pirate shirts and safety pins. She later moved into catwalk and couture, creating bustles and corsets for red carpets and celebrities, later leveraging her status to promote various causes.
Her clothes sometimes featured activist slogans, and despite participating with the fashion week calendar, she often urged her customers to buy less, not more. In a 2017 collection she showed a unisex line of trousers, hats and capes in the hope that men and women would share the same clothes.
The memorial took place at the start of London fashion week, which was dedicated to the late designer and her legacy. “Her work not only changed the fashion industry, giving birth to and defining punk, but it also drove positive change globally,” said Davina Wedderburn of the British Fashion Council. “It’s only right that we celebrate her.”
A small funeral took place on 9 January in Tintwistle. According to the Herald, the family decorated the church with Harris tweed cushions.
“She started a punk and ended a dame, without compromising an inch,” said Bonham Carter. “She was a true feminist.”
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After many years of waiting for the “right time” and then trying to conceive, my best friend and I fell pregnant at almost exactly the same time. I miscarried at 11 weeks, while she went on to have a healthy baby.
I had to distance myself from my friend, as her growing bump was such a cruel reminder of my loss. I felt immensely guilty about it, because obviously she had done nothing wrong. At the time I thought she understood, but when I felt ready to reconnect after the baby was born, she made some comments that showed perhaps she didn’t get it at all. There was an accusation that I had abandoned her. It also felt like a very selfish comment, because in all that time she had never checked in with me to see if I was OK, and I also could have done with a friend.
I think too much has changed now for us to reconcile. She has her baby, and I’m moving away. And yet, the situation haunts me. I feel so sad that a 20-year friendship has been lost over life events that were no one’s fault. I fear that speaking to her could end up creating further upset and another bout of depression for me, as it did the last time. Is it time to just let it go and move on?
Eleanor says: First of all I’m so sorry for your loss. Any grief feels like it draws a curtain between you and the rest of the world, but this is especially true when a big part of the grief is for what could have been. It gets even harder to connect with people through mourning: harder to share memories of what you’re missing, harder to know the loss feels as concrete to them as it does to you. The isolation of the grief you’re experiencing makes it even more difficult to feel isolated from a friend as well.
It sounds like part of the problem is you don’t feel properly understood. An event that’s become such a big part of your life and emotional landscape doesn’t seem to take up the right amount of space in how she understands you; like the map you have of yourself and the map she has of you don’t match. That makes it really difficult to have a friendship. It’s hard to connect when you’re not even really seeing each other.
These kinds of mismatches happen in all kinds of relationships, over all kinds of loss – someone who loves us just does not clock how big something is to us, how much it still affects us, how near to the surface it always is.
The issue is, the reason we got into the mismatch is the same reason it’s unlikely to resolve on its own. The whole problem is that something just hasn’t occurred to someone in the right kind of way – it isn’t occupying their attention. So unless they get a new reason to see it, there’s not much reason to expect they suddenly will. Really there are only two options: speak to her, giving her that new reason to see what you’re feeling, or decide what to do if this never changes. It can be oddly emancipating to spend some time with the realisation that those are the only ways forward. To get to grips with the fact that she’s very unlikely to see it on her own.
I understand the fear that a conversation will just cause further upset, but on the other hand, it might be a huge relief to feel some of the connectedness and visibility you’ve been missing. You’ve described this to me in such a matter of fact, compassionate way. This is no one’s fault; she did nothing wrong; you felt guilty for needing to distance yourself; but now you feel so sad at the thought of losing her.
I have to imagine there’s a way to talk to her that comes from that place, instead of devolving into who abandoned who (you could just set aside the fact that she didn’t check in on you either). It could instead be sharing something, from a place of vulnerability, that you’d like your close friend to understand: of course you were thrilled for her journey with motherhood, but it was painful to be reminded of your own.
Often the people we love don’t realise how things are for us. If we’re lucky, though, that’s something they want to fix as much as we do.
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New Delhi: The Congress-led opposition stepped up its attack on Friday against the government over the Adani row and demanded that there should be a thorough investigation into what they alleged was a “mega scam” as it involved public money.
Opposition parties have been demanding a joint parliamentary probe or a Supreme Court-monitored investigation into the allegations of fraud and manipulation by the US-based short-seller Hindenburg Research against billionaire Gautam Adani’s companies that have triggered an unprecedented stock crash.
“Due to the investment made by LIC-SBI in Adani Group, the money of common citizens of the country is sinking. The Opposition is demanding an inquiry into the entire matter,” the Congress said.
The party also said that it has been two days, and the Opposition is demanding a discussion on the Adani issue in Parliament.
“The money of the people of the country invested in LIC-SBI is sinking. The opposition wants to raise the voice of the public in the House and discuss their concerns. But, PM Modi is running away from the discussion, saving his friend. Fear of what,” the opposition party asked.
Adani Group has lost more than USD 100 billion in market value since Hindenburg Research accused it of stock manipulation and accounting fraud in the January 24 report. The group has denied any wrongdoing and has threatened to sue Hindenburg.
“Dow Jones dropped Adani from Sustainability Indices. Action is being taken against Adani all over the world, but PM Modi is quiet. Where are SEBI, ED, ROC, and SFIO? When will our government take action,” the Congress asked on Twitter.
The opposition parties met in the morning in the chamber of Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge and coordinated their strategy for the day.
While 16 parties including the Congress, RJD, AAP, DMK, SP, CPI, CPI-M, BRS, Shiv Sena (Thackeray), JDU, NCP and NC participated in the meeting on Friday, Trinamool Congress did not attend the same. TMC was present in the Thursday meeting of opposition parties.
The Opposition later stalled the proceedings of both Houses of Parliament, which failed to transact any business and were adjourned within minutes.
“Parliament adjourned for another day because the Opposition demands a JPC on the PM-linked Adani issue that is playing havoc on the savings of crores of Indians,” Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said.
“Modi sarkar says MPs are wasting public money. What about the crores people have lost over the last few days of the ‘Maha mega scam,” he asked.
He also accused the government of being fearful of the Opposition demands for a JPC on the Adani issue and alleged that the business group has patronage at the highest levels.
Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate said,”the difference between the global financial community and India’s approach to allegations against Adani is stark.”
“Distant third parties like S&P Dow Jones remove Adani Enterprises on the severity of allegations. Our own regulators and government remain inactive and silent despite 10 days of mayhem,” she said on Twitter.
Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha MP Priyanka Chaturvedi also wrote to the SEBI chief demanding action on the Adani issue not just for the sake of shareholders who are losing their money but also in the national interest.
“Reminding SEBI about its authority to regulate the markets and ensure transparency, compliances are met with so as to not shake the investor confidence & wipe off wealth of investors,” she said on Twitter.
TMC MP Mahua Moitra also tweeted:”S&P Dow Jones removes Adani Enterprises from Dow Jones indices due to stock manipulation and accounting fraud charges.
“Why is NSE not reevaluating index membership of Adani stocks when international ones are.”
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