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== ''En masse'' public molestation and sexual violence against women == | == ''En masse'' public molestation and sexual violence against women == | ||
On 1969 April 6, a scheduled musical night at the stadium called 'Ashok Kumar Nite' failed to take place due to faulty [[ | On 1969 April 6, a scheduled musical night at the stadium called 'Ashok Kumar Nite' failed to take place due to faulty [[amplifier]]s. The [[crowd]] became unruly and women attending the gathering were molested and sexually abused en masse. According to [[Hem Barua]], then member of Parliament from [[Mangaldoi (Lok Sabha constituency)|Mangaldoi]], from his speech in [[Lok Sabha|Loksabha]] (House of representatives), the Rabindra Sarobar Stadium event was a ghastly incident where women were humiliated, and many had to return home naked (large quantities of torn [[bra]]ssieres and [[sari|sarees]] were found the next day), and at least 30 went missing.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Barua |first=Hem |date=14 April 1969 |title=Cossipore firing and West Bengal Strike |url=https://eparlib.nic.in/bitstream/123456789/55071/1/lsd_04_07_14-04-1969.pdf |access-date=25 March 2021 |website=Parliament of India Loksabha Digital Library}}</ref><ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite news|date=20 September 1969|title=P. M. in Calcutta|work=[[Samar Sen|Frontier Weekly]]|issue=Vol. 2 No. 24|editor-last=Sen|editor-first=Samar|url=https://www.frontierweekly.com/archive/vol-number/vol/vol-2/vol-2-issues/2_24_20september1969.pdf|access-date=15 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150426200703/https://www.frontierweekly.com/archive/vol-number/vol/vol-2/vol-2-issues/2_24_20september1969.pdf|archive-date=26 April 2015}}</ref> | ||
Home minister [[Jyoti Basu]] ordered a judicial inquiry into the incident.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Bandyopādhyāẏa |first=Surabhi |title=Jyoti Basu, the authorized biography |date=1997|publisher=Penguin Books India |isbn=0-670-87519-8 |location=New Delhi, India |page=129 |oclc=36884321}}</ref> | Home minister [[Jyoti Basu]] ordered a judicial inquiry into the incident.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Bandyopādhyāẏa |first=Surabhi |title=Jyoti Basu, the authorized biography |date=1997|publisher=Penguin Books India |isbn=0-670-87519-8 |location=New Delhi, India |page=129 |oclc=36884321}}</ref> | ||