Tribune News Service

Amritsar, August 9

Members of various farm unions staged a protest against the brutal rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl in Delhi at Bhandari Bridge on Monday.

The farm leaders condemned the incident and demanded strict action against the miscreants.

Protesters raised slogans against the Central Government and asked it to take responsibility for deteriorating law and order situation.

The farm leaders alleged that such incidents wherein victims were burnt to cover the crime had been reported earlier as well during the incumbent government.

Rattan Singh Randhawa, a farm leader, said earlier, a similar incident was reported from Hathras, in Uttar Pradesh.

He alleged that in the incident at Nagla village near the Delhi Cantonment, a priest along with four other miscreants gang raped a nine-year-old and then burnt her alive.

Farm leaders Balkar Singh Dudala, Satnam Singh Jhander, Jagtar Singh Karampura and Charanjit Singh Dhillon, among others, said farmers would take out marches in villages and towns of the district on August 15 to mark the Independence Day.