Uttar Pradesh’s Badaun is being a political hub with ministers lining up to enquire into gangrape and murder of two teenaged girls.
Recentlly, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi has visited and Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati is expected to visit unfortunate site of Katra Shadat Ganj village.
On May 27 night, two girls had gone missing. Their bodies were found hanging from a tree the next day. Police had allegedly refused to register a first information report for hours.
All five accused who had been identified are now under arrest. Two are yet to be identified. Victim of father wants justice and not compensation.
Rahul and Mayawati have demanded a CBI probe in the matter.
SP sent Dharmendra Yadav, the MP from Badaun, to visit the family. The ruling party has received immense flak for the law and order situation in the state, and Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav’s defiant stance.
UP government has agreed to a CBI probe and announced Rs. five lakh as compensation for the families.
But the families of the two girls want justice, not compensation.
Meanwhile, Union minister Uma Bharti attacked SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, saying, “The kind of statements that Mulayam and other SP ministers have made has clearly boosted the morale of the rapists”.
She was referring to Mr Yadav’s controversial remarks against the new and stringent anti-rape law, when he had said, “They are boys; they make mistakes.”
