Express News Service
KOLKATA: In the Hanskhali gang rape and homicide of a 14-year-old class 9 scholar, the BJP has fashioned a fact-finding committee of 5 girl leaders from totally different states to investigate into the case.
The committee includes BJP’s vice-president and MP Rekha Verma, Uttar Pradesh minister Baby Rani Maurya, Tamil Nadu MLA, and BJP’s ladies wing head Vanathi Srinivasan, nationwide govt member Kushbu Sunder and West Bengal MLA Sreerupa Mitra Choudhury.
The panel members will go to West Bengal and meet the bereaved household earlier than submitting a report back to the saffron camp’s nationwide president JP Nadda.
Sources within the BJP mentioned all of the 5 members of the committee had been nominated by Nadda. ‘’Our occasion doesn’t wish to miss the chance to make use of the difficulty as a political instrument towards Mamata Banerjee-led authorities because the chief minister retains speaking about empowerment of ladies and claiming welfare works completed by her authorities are for the ladies in Bengal.”
Referring to the chief minister’s comment questioning whether or not the sufferer and the accused, who’s a son of an area Trinamool Congress chief, had been in a relationship and whether or not the minor lady was pregnant, a senior chief mentioned, “her comment has hurt the mothers of Bengal and we will make it an issue.”
Reacting to the Hanskhali case, Mamata on Monday mentioned, ‘’Was there a love affair between the lady and the youth? Was she pregnant? The lady died on April 5 and the grievance was lodged on April 10. Why was the grievance not lodged on the identical day?’’
The chief minister’s comment drew flak within the political circle of Bengal.
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In the grievance lodged by the sufferer’s relations, it was alleged that the 14-year-old lady was gang-raped on the home of Brajagopal Goala, the accused and son of an area panchayat member, the place she had gone to attend a party and she or he was bleeding profusely whereas being dropped at dwelling. The household additionally alleged that they cremated the physique of the lady, who died the following morning, earlier than autopsy and with no demise certificates underneath strain from the accused.
Based on the excessive court docket’s order, CBI registered a case of gang rape and homicide. ‘’The case was lodged underneath the Indian Penal Code sections of 376D (gangrape), 302 (homicide), 201 (inflicting disappearance of proof), 34 (frequent intention) and POCSO 6 (aggravated penetrative sexual assault),’’ mentioned a CBI official.
Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Wednesday met the chief secretary and the DGP to debate the regulation and order state of affairs within the state. He additionally requested Mamata to return ahead for interplay on these points as quickly as doable.
