http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/To-counter-Mayawati-govt-makes-U-turn-on-Bhatta-Parsaul/articleshow/9917363.cms
To counter Mayawati, govt makes U-turn on Bhatta Parsaul
TNN | Sep 9, 2011, 03.13AM IST
NEW DELHI: The government on Thursday made a course correction on
claims of incidents of rape at Bhatta Parsaul in western Uttar Pradesh
during farmers' agitation against forceful land acquisition.
Women and child development (WCD) ministry said in a written reply
that an inquiry panel has found that women were not only molested and
stripped but the police personnel did "even more than that".
WCD minister Krishna Tirath corrected the government's earlier
statement made in the Rajya Sabha on August 11, where it had said "no
specific case of rape has been confirmed by the inquiry committee".
The reply stopped short of alleging rapes in Bhatta Parsaul near Greater Noida.
After the police action on agitating farmers, Congress general
secretary Rahul Gandhi had sneaked into the village in early May,
alleging atrocities against women. He had claimed that women were
raped to suppress the agitation.
In a written reply in the Rajya Sabha on August 11, the minister had
said a National Commission for Women (NCW) team visited the place and
"no specific case of rape has been confirmed by the inquiry
committee."
However, correcting the August 11 reply, Tirath said on Thursday that
the NCW team that went into the charges of alleged atrocities,
including rape, has stated in its preliminary report that serious
crime was committed on women.
"...police personnel broke open houses, looted valuables, money,
ransacked houses, tore women's clothes and put them in a state of
nakedness, badly molested and committed even more than that," she said
quoting the NCW report.
The final report is, however, awaited.
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