By means of PTI
KOLKATA: A BJP fact-finding staff Friday met the members of the family of the minor lady in Hanshkhali in Nadia district, who died after being allegedly gang-raped previous within the month, and slammed the state management for failing to make sure the security and safety of ladies within the state.
The staff contributors spoke to the members of the family and the locals, birthday celebration resources mentioned. They’ll publish their report back to BJP nationwide president J P Nadda, who shaped the fact-finding committee previous this week.
The staff constructed from the birthday celebration’s vice-president Rekha Verma, nationwide president of BJP Mahila Morcha Vanathi Srinivasan, birthday celebration chief Khushbu Sundar and West Bengal MLA Sreerupa Mitra Choudhury, the resources mentioned.
“Atrocities towards ladies in West Bengal are past phrases. A minor lady was once brutally raped and murdered. This proves the management has failed to make sure the security and safety of ladies. It is a shameful incident,” Verma advised newshounds after assembly the members of the family.
Echoing her, Mitra Chowdhury mentioned the staff spoke to the mummy of the sufferer and criticised West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee for making “irresponsible statements” on it.
“The executive minister who’s herself a lady has been making irresponsible statements as an alternative of making sure that the sufferer’s circle of relatives will get justice. Is that this anticipated from a major minister? The sufferer’s mom narrated the circle of relatives’s ordeal. The type of risk and intimidation the woman’s members of the family confronted is unattainable,” she mentioned.
The 14-year-old lady had died after being allegedly gang raped through the son of a ruling TMC panchayat chief at Hanskhali on April 4. Her circle of relatives lodged the police criticism on April 10 and claimed that the woman’s frame was once snatched away and cremated.
The sufferer’s circle of relatives had additionally alleged they had been threatened with dire result through the accused’s circle of relatives.
Calcutta Top Courtroom had passed over the investigation to CBI. Reacting to Verma’s remark, TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh dubbed the allegations as “baseless”.
“The ladies of the state are protected and protected in West Bengal beneath the management of Mamata Banerjee. BJP is fast to ship groups to West Bengal however by no means bothers to ship identical groups to Uttar Pradesh, the place rape instances had been reported from Hathras and Unnao,” he added.
Ghosh mentioned the fact-finding staff meant to malign the state and affect the continuing CBI probe.
“This fact-finding committee targets to set tips for the central company on how the probe must be performed and accuse the state govt.
Some incidents have taken position and they’re blaming the TMC for it.
It kind of feels they’re but to digest their defeat within the ultimate West Bengal meeting polls,” he mentioned.
West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee had on April 11 publicly expressed doubt over the reason for the minor lady’s loss of life, which her circle of relatives attributed to gang rape.
She had claimed that the sufferer was once in a courting with the high accused and had puzzled whether or not she was once pregnant, a remark which opposition events strongly criticised.
Banerjee had additionally puzzled of she died after being slapped through any individual.
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