Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s silence on yet another gang-rape is “unacceptable”.
“India hangs its head in shame as another one of its daughters is brutally gang-raped. Prime Minister, your silence is unacceptable. Shame on a government that leaves India’s women unprotected and afraid and allows rapists to walk free,” Mr. Gandhi tweeted. The Congress chief’s remarks come almost a week after the gang- rape of a 19-year-old student in Haryana. An academic achiever, the girl was on her way to a coaching centre when she was accosted by three men at a bus stop at Kanina town, dragged into a car, drugged and then raped in a field.
While the police claim to have arrested one of the main accused, a doctor who allegedly helped in the crime and the owner of the agricultural plot, two other main accused are yet to be arrested. One of the principal accused is a serving Army jawan and is absconding.
Congress communication chief Randeep Singh Surjewala, who is also a lawmaker from Haryana, said ever since the Manohar Lal Khattar government came to power in the State, there had been a 47% jump in crimes against women and as many as 1,413 cases of rape had been registered in the past one year.