Mumbai :Bollywood stars and Journalist staged a silent protest in the heart of Mumbai from Joggers Park to Amphi theatre carter road displaying banner and placards to express their anger following the rape of a 22-year-old woman in an abandoned textile mill in central Mumbai Thursday evening.
Bollywood actress Sonam Kapoor, Reshma Dsouza, Singer Sona Mohapatra, Karanveer Bohra along with his wife Teejay Sidhu, kushaal Punjabi, Aparnaa Bajpai, Satish Reddy, Actor Dalip Tahil and MLA Baba Siddique joined protest against rape in Mumbai. Sonam Kapoor said, “I am really shocked and taken aback with the recent shameful incident that took place in Mumbai. A sheer act of cowardice.”
The woman who was raped was a photojournalist intern for an English-language magazine in Mumbai. She was on assignment with a male colleague shooting pictures of an abandoned mill in the Mahalaxmi area in the south of the city when five men tied up the man she was with and raped her for one-and-a-half hours, according to police. Journalists from all fraternity and media personalities were seen in full swing to support the cause.
