Mayawati's Uttar Pradesh accounts for 10% of crimes against women
Published: Friday, Jan 28, 2011, 2:20 IST | Updated: Friday, Jan 28,
2011, 0:57 IST
By Deepak Gidwani | Place: Lucknow | Agency: DNA
According to National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) figures, Uttar
Pradesh, on an average, accounts for 10% of all crimes against women
throughout the country.
The statistics have come to acquire a grim reality in the state with a
string of cases of rape, abduction and death of girls related to
sexual molestation within a very short span of time.
With opposition leaders taking up cudgels on the issue, the Mayawati
regime faces a major embarrassment.
The series which started with the gang rape of a minor, in Banda in
December, allegedly by BSP MLA Purushottam Dwivedi, does not seem to
be abating soon.
It was soon followed by the rape of Sonali (name changed) in Lakhna,
Etawah, in December. Sonali's husband committed suicide some days
after the incident.
With obliging police officials at hand, it is the victims in both
cases who were sent to jail on trumped-up charges. Things changed only
after chief minister Mayawati stepped in. While the Banda MLA is now
in jail, the one in Etawah is on his way. The Etawah chief judicial
magistrate (CJM) on Thursday ordered a criminal case to be registered
against him and seven other accused.
In a more recent incident, a minor girl was raped and murdered on the
outskirts of the state capital. It is only after the media and
opposition leaders created a hue and cry that the four accused were
arrested on Thursday.
On Thursday itself, a five-year-old was burnt to death after being
raped in Nagla Khargar area of Ferozabad district. In a similar
incident, a teacher at the St Xavier's School in Shahganj area of
Jaunpur district in east UP, torched herself on Wednesday for being
sexually exploited by the school.
Opposition is out to score their usual points. "It is shocking how
unsafe our sisters and daughters are in a state ruled by a woman. This
is shameful for 'Behn' Mayawati ji," said UP Congress chief Rita
Bahuguna Joshi.
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