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Women's panel slams UP Govt for rising rape cases
Press Trust Of India
New Delhi, February 07, 2011
First Published: 13:37 IST(7/2/2011)
Last Updated: 14:53 IST(7/2/2011)
In the backdrop of the brutal attack on a Dalit girl in Uttar Pradesh,
National Commission for Women chairperson Girija Vyas today slammed
the state administration and police for their handling of the rape and
abduction cases. Vyas said there were no signs of justice being
delivered to the victims
related stories and also blamed the police for conducting "shoddy"
investigations and implicating innocent persons. The Mayawati
government is facing criticism over a number of cases including the
Banda case involving the rape of a Dalit girl allegedly by a BSP MLA
and the recent case in Bindaki where a 16-year-old Dalit girl had her
nose and ear chopped off after she resisted a rape attempt by three
men.
Allegations of abduction and murder have also been levelled against a
BSP Minister. "UP accounts for the most cases of rape and abduction.
There is no justice for the victims. What police does is nab some
innocent persons to just show that they have acted," Vyas said.
She asked why no rape case has been referred to fast track courts till
now. In the latest incident in UP's Bindaki area, a teenaged Dalit
girl was seriously injured when three youths chopped off her nose, ear
and a part of her hand after she resisted a rape attempt and raised an
alarm.
An FIR has been lodged against the three accused but only one of them
has been arrested. Last week, family members of a murdered civil
engineer blocked Chief Minister Mayawati's carcade in Aligarh
demanding that she take action against a state minister accused in the
case. Women's rights activist Ranjana Kumari also attacked the UP
government, saying Dalit girls do not appear to be safe in the state
that is ironically governed by a Dalit woman chief minister.
"Just last month an MLA was arrested after having raped a girl after a
campaign by women's groups and the media and now again this is a more
gruesome accident that has happened. One cannot imagine how Mayawati
is keeping quiet about the whole situation. She is supposed to be a
messiah of the Dalits and in her state this is happening with Dalit
girls," she said. She demanded an inquiry, especially against the
minister accused of murder.
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