Seema Kushwaha is an advocate in the Supreme Court of India. He fought the gang rape case of 2012 Delhi gang rape victim Nirbhaya.
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Seema Kushwah was born as Seema Samridhi Kushwah on Thursday, 2 October 1986 (age 36 years; as in 2022) in Ugrapur village in Etawah district of Uttar Pradesh. His zodiac sign is Libra. She did her schooling from Kalavati Rampyari School in Lakhna town. After this Seema took admission in Ajitmal PG College, Auraiya. He completed his Bachelor of Laws from Kanpur University in 2005 and a Bachelor of Journalism degree from Rajarshi Tandon Open University, Uttar Pradesh in 2006. He has also done post graduation in Political Science. Then she went to Delhi to prepare for UPSC exam.
Family
parents and siblings
He was born to Baladeen Kushwaha (father) and Ramkunri Kushwaha. His father was a farmer, who later became the village head of Bidhipur Gram Panchayat. His mother is a housewife.
Husband
Seema Kushwaha is married to lawyer Rakesh Kumar Kushwaha.
Seema Kushwaha with her husband
livelihood
as a lawyer
He started practice in Allahabad court around 2006. He started his legal practice in the Supreme Court of India in 2013. Till then, he had not fought any case in court. She was successful in getting the Saket court in 2013, the Delhi High Court in 2014 and then the Supreme Court of India in 2020 to approve the death penalty for four convicts. Eventually, the culprits were given death sentence in Tihar, Delhi. Jail on 20 March 2020.
Advocate Seema Samridhi Kushwaha expressing her happiness with Nirbhaya’s parents after the hanging of the culprits of Nirbhaya gang rape and murder.
He represented the 2020 Hathras gang rape victim’s family in their legal battle to get justice for their daughter. In October 2021, he took up the case of Manish Gupta, a businessman who died due to torture by police during a raid at a hotel in Gorakhpur.
as a politician
On 20 January 2022, she joined the Bahujan Samaj Party ahead of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections.
Seema Kushwaha with BSP supremo Mayawati after joining the party on January 20, 2022
Facts/General Knowledge
- Seema belongs to a very small village of Etawah. He had told in an interview that his village is so small that it will not be visible if searched on Google.
- She hails from a family where the birth of a girl child was not appreciated. Even, Seema’s birth was not happily accepted by her family. He shared in an interview,
I am the youngest child in the family. When my mother had a girl, everyone was unhappy except my father and aunt. The elders and even my mother considered killing me, thinking, ‘What will we do with another girl? They argued. But aunt and father intervened and I got life.
- Seema once told that in her village, girls’ education was not supported and they were not treated equal to boys.
- Kushwaha’s father supported him from the beginning and helped him go to school. He shared in an interview,
I struggled to go to school which was 1 km away from my village. We had to cross the forest to reach there, but somehow 7 of us girls made it to 8th class. After that all the girls in my class left studies because the senior school was three kilometers away and the villagers were against it. But I was stubborn.”
- She was the first girl in her village who continued her studies after 8th class.
- In an interview, Seema shared an incident from her school days when she had beaten up a boy in her school who tried to harass her. He said,
When a boy tried to make nasty comments, I beat him up badly. A crowd gathered and the man started apologizing, but I said, ‘I will not leave you!’ The word spread. These boys will say, ‘She is a very dangerous girl, don’t mess with her, Lena, she starts dying straight away.’
- She was a bright student in her school and was also the captain of the NCC team. His poor family background never stopped him from going to school. He said in an interview,
I didn’t care about anything else. I wore my worn-out slippers, picked up my bag, took my brother’s bicycle and went to class. I participated in everything. I gave speeches and was even chosen captain of my NCC team in Lucknow and then everyone in my village opposed it. They said, ‘She will go to the city and ruin our name,’ but my father supported me. I took money from my brother and left for Lucknow without telling anyone. There, we won the competition and my name appeared in the newspaper, a small article about a village girl leading her team to victory.”
- Seema’s family wanted her to get married when she was in 10th class. She did not want to marry and went on a three-day hunger strike because she wanted to study further. Later, in 2002, when Seema’s father died, her elder brother pressured her to get married. With the help of one of her friends, she somehow managed to get the LLB Kanpur books and admission form and left home.
- Seema was so passionate about learning that she even sold her anklets and earrings to pay her school fees. To meet his college expenses, he also started teaching in a school.
- His struggle continued even during his college days. He said in an interview,
I worked jobs, sometimes walked to class, sacrificed food and sleep, just so I could become a lawyer.
- She aspired to become an IAS officer and was preparing for the UPSC exam when the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case happened in 2012. He shared in an interview,
I used to assist many senior lawyers while practicing in Allahabad High Court. Along with preparing for IAS, I also appeared for the Civil Judge exam. However, I got tired of my efforts and connected with the parents of the December 16 victim. I knew the law was my responsibility.”
- Seema Kushwaha believed that the status of women in developed cities like Delhi is quite different from that in small towns. He shared in an interview,
The status of women lawyers in Bombay or Delhi is different from that in smaller cities. In Kanpur, we were not given any respect in the courts, it was common for a female lawyer not to get dates just because of her gender.
- In December 2012, when the Nirbhaya rape case happened, Seema was preparing for the UPSC exam by staying in a PG in New Delhi. Seema said in an interview that when she heard about the rape case, she could not overcome the feelings of fear and anger. He said,
I was suffering from mixed emotions of fear and anger. 12 girls from my PG immediately left Delhi because their parents were scared. I was devastated. I cried uncontrollably thinking about what she had gone through. When more details started coming in, something stirred inside me. I wiped my tears. All my life, I have fought for myself, but this is not the time to sit at home and cry – it’s time to get out and fight back.”
- Before taking up the Nirbhaya case in 2013, Seema took to the streets in Delhi and participated in protests demanding justice for Nirbhaya in the wake of the horrific crime.
2013 photo of lawyer Seema Kushwaha protesting for justice in the Nirbhaya case.
- He did not charge any fees for fighting Nirbhaya’s case.
- In 2014, Seema decided to raise the Nirbhaya case and in an interview shared a conversation with Nirbhaya’s mother saying,
When I spoke to aunty, she told me, ‘I don’t think my daughter will get justice. That’s when I promised her – ‘I will fight for Jyoti. I will take the case, we will not leave them.”
- She is the legal advisor of the “Nirbhaya Jyoti Trust”, an organization founded by Nirbhaya’s parents that helps women who have experienced violence find shelter and legal aid, and of the Jyotiba Phule Foundation for Social Justice. is also.
- Even after winning the Nirbhaya case, Kushwaha’s fight continued. He shared in an interview,
After he was hanged, I started receiving threats on my social media handles. They abused me and said things like, ‘We will rape you worse than Jyoti.’ ,
- Seema Kushwaha is against injustice not only with women but also with men. He said in an interview,
This may be my first case but not the last. I want to continue my campaign on gender crimes not only against women but also against men.”
- Seema Kushwaha is an inspiration for many women. She said in an interview that the fight has just begun and she will try to reach every victim woman. He said,
I have received over 500 messages from women, some sent me pictures of FIRs they had filed without any avail and others told me how they were raped, harassed or harassed without any justice. They were violated. I’m going to reach out to all of them to say, ‘We will not abandon them’. raw is War.”
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Source: vcmp.edu.vn