BJP national executive member and actress Khushboo Sundar was arrested along with functionaries and workers of the women’s wing of the party when they tried to start a padyatra from Madurai to Madras to seek justice for the girl student of Anna University in Madras, who was sexually assaulted on December 23. The BJP state president had announced the padyatra much before the Madras high court castigated political parties for politicising the issue by holding protests to simply garner media attention.
The yatra was to conclude in Madras, where a memorandum on the protection of women was to be submitted to governor R.N. Ravi.
Khushboo and the other arrested persons were released shortly after their arrest.