Rahul attacked the BJP over the alleged kidnapping and homicide of two Dalit ladies in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri
New Delhi: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Thursday attacked the BJP over the alleged kidnapping and homicide of two Dalit ladies in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri, saying ladies’s safety can’t be anticipated from these facilitating the discharge of rapists.
The 2 teenage sisters had been discovered hanging from a tree in a sugarcane area situated a couple of kilometre away from their home in Nighasan police station limits in Lakhimpur Kheri on Wednesday, police stated.
Six individuals had been arrested on Thursday in reference to the rape and homicide of the 2 ladies.
“The kidnapping and homicide of two minor Dalit sisters in Lakhimpur in broad daylight is a really disturbing incident,” Gandhi stated in a tweet in Hindi.
“Girls’s security can’t be anticipated from these facilitating the discharge of rapists and welcoming them,” the previous Congress chief stated in an obvious reference to 11 convicts within the Bilkis Bano gangrape case being let loose final month from the Godhra sub-jail after the BJP-led Gujarat authorities allowed their launch beneath its remission coverage.
Gandhi pressured on the necessity for making a secure setting within the nation for girls.
As quickly because the information concerning the alleged homicide of the Dalit ladies broke, Congress Common Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra attacked the BJP-led Uttar Pradesh authorities over “rising” crimes in opposition to ladies within the state.
“The killings of two sisters in Lakhimpur (UP) are heart-wrenching. The kin say that the women had been kidnapped in broad daylight,” Priyanka Gandhi stated in a tweet in Hindi.
“Giving false ads in newspapers and tv day-after-day doesn’t enhance legislation and order. In any case, why are heinous crimes in opposition to ladies rising in Uttar Pradesh?” the Congress common secretary stated.
When will the federal government get up, she requested.
Lakhimpur Kheri Superintendent of Police (SP) informed reporters, “We now have arrested Junaid, Sohail, Hafizur Rehman, Karimuddin, Arif and Chottu in an in a single day operation.”
“As per preliminary investigation, the 2 sisters left their residence on Wednesday afternoon on the persuasion of Junaid and Sohail. Junaid and Sohail have confessed that they strangulated the women after raping them,” stated the SP.
