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Aamir expresses distraught over 'Park Street' rape survivor's death
Mumbai, Mar 14 (IBNS): Bollywood actor Aamir Khan, who joined the 50 years club on Saturday, expressed distraught over the death of 'Park Street rape' victim, Suzette Jordan.
"I am shocked and deeply distraught on hearing that Suzette Jordan has passed away. In the brief time that I spent with Suzette, I was overwhelmed by her positive spirit, her sense of self, her dignity, her self respect, her humility, and her courage to stand up against all odds," Khan said in a statement on Friday.
He said he was inspired by her humanity.
"I was inspired by the love and humanity that she had in her heart. In her tragically short life Suzette has given us a lot. I feel grateful that I could make her acquaintance. Everyone who has had the good fortune of receiving her love and respect will miss her deeply. My thoughts are with her family. You will always be in our hearts, Suzette," posted the actor.
Jordan, who was bold enough to reveal her identity and take on the West Bengal government for her fight to get justice, died at a hospital in Kolkata on Friday.
She was 40.
The mother of two, belonging to the Anglo-Indian community, had been in hospital for three days.
In 2013, she revealed her identity to the world and marched on the streets of Kolkata to protest against a series of rapes and murders in the state.
She had said that she was sexually assaulted at gunpoint inside the moving car after she was given a lift in the vehicle from Park Street area in Kolkata on the Feb 5-6 night last year.
After the woman identified a wrong set of people as her tormentors owing to impersonation by the gang, the Mamata Banerjee government first called it a fabricated incident though a woman police official later cracked the case and several were arrested even as Kadir managed to escape.
A lady IPS officer of Kolkata Police, Damayanti Sen, who had cracked the case and said a rape indeed took place, was later removed from her position as the joint commissioner of police (crime) triggering more controversy over the incident.
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