Yadav flays Yogi government over suicide bids by way of two Jhansi ladies, police officers deny sexual harassment as explanation why

By way of PTI

LUCKNOW: SP leader Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday attacked the Yogi Adityanath executive over girls’s protection in Uttar Pradesh, relating to an incident in Jhansi the place two sisters, allegedly bored stiff with the police inactivity over their grievance of sexual harassment, ate up poison.

Police, alternatively, refuted Yadav’s declare that the 2 sisters have been sexually burdened, and stated they’d ate up poison, alleging police inactivity over their grievance of harassment by way of their neighbours over a dispute on watering an under-construction space.

“It is saddening that shedding hope from the police, two sisters, going through sexual harassment in Jhansi, ate up poison. All the ones criminals and officers concerned and the ones patronising them must face an impartial probe. Safety of sisters and daughters must be the primary indicator of legislation and order,” Akhilesh Yadav stated in a tweet in Hindi.

Responding to Yadav’s allegation, the Jhansi police claimed in a tweet that the 2 ladies’ allegations of sexual harassment have been false they usually had a combat with a neighbouring lady and her son Rahul over the watering of an under-construction space.

After the incident of the ladies eating poison got here to gentle, police acted within the subject and feature registered an FIR towards the mother-son duo, the Jhansi police stated on its Twitter maintain. The police have additionally shaped a crew to arrest the accused, they stated.

The Jhansi police stated it even suspended the police station in-charge J P Yadav with speedy impact for no longer taking correct motion at the ladies’ grievance and ordered a departmental probe towards him. In line with docs, the situation of the ladies is customary, police stated.