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A 55-year-old woman walked for two days to reach the Balangir district headquarters town, 75km away, to meet the collector and request him to trace her ‘missing’ son who went to Andhra Pradesh to work in a brick kiln in October 2023 and has not returned since.

NEW DELHI: Women’s rights activists have sought the resignation of National Commission for Women member Chandramukhi Devi. On her visit to Badaun, Chandramukhi Devi had said that the rape victim should not have left home after dark unaccompanied, putting the blame on the victim for the incident. The 50-year-old anganwadi worker was allegedly gang-raped and murdered on January 3 in Uttar Pradesh’s Badaun district. "The fact that a member of the apex statutory body should have said of the ...