The Minister of the Union of Women and Child Development, Smriti Irani, on Saturday mocked Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who will go to meet the family of the 19-year-old gang rape victim Hathras, for the second time after to be prevented from going there before this. week.
“Rahul Gandhi’s march to Hathras is for politics, not justice,” Irani said during a press conference in Varanasi on the recently passed agricultural laws.
On Thursday, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra were detained in UP’s Greater Noida and briefly detained. Gandhi was mistreated and pushed to the ground by police personnel present in the place near the national capital.
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The Union minister said that the women’s commission informed her that it is taking all possible measures to guarantee justice for the victim, a Dalit. She said that she has spoken with Uttar Pradesh’s Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath about the Hathras issue and was assured that strict measures would be taken against those who dare to deprive the victim of justice.
When asked whether the Hathras district magistrate who allegedly threatened the victim’s family would be suspended, he said that Adityanath assured him that action would be guaranteed based on the report from the special investigation team (SIT) that is investigating the case.
The Dalit woman was raped by four “upper caste” men on 15 September and died Tuesday at Safdarjung Hospital in New Delhi. She was transferred to the Delhi hospital from the Jawaharlal Nehru College of Medicine of the Muslim University of Aligarh.
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