‘Modi should pay more attention to women’s issues’
Christine Lagarde has said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should pay more attention to women's issues in the aftermath of the rape of on eight-year-old girl in kathua
UNITED NATIONS: International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde has said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Indian authorities should pay more attention to women’s issues in the aftermath of the rape of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir.
Answering a question at a news conference in Washington on Thursday about the Kathua incident, she said: “What has happened is just revolting.” “I would hope that the Indian authorities, starting with Prime Minister Modi, pay more attention because it is needed for the women of India.
“When I was last in Davos, after Prime Minister Modi’s speech, I did tell him that he had not mentioned the women of India enough,” Lagarde said.
But, she added, “it is not just a question of talking about them”.
Modi delivered the opening plenary address at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January.
Separately, the Supreme Court on Friday asked an advocate, who alleged that FIRS were not registered by police in rape cases which involve powerful politicians, if he had “any relative who was raped”.
Expressing their annoyance, a bench of Justice S.A. Bobde and Justice L. Nageswara Rao said: “You have nothing to do with these rapes. How are you related to these rapes? Don’t be generic. Is any relative of a victim of rape before us for remedy? Do you have any relative who was raped? Then why are you here?” Advocate Manohar Lal Sharma had iled plea for a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the Unnao gangrape case allegedly involving a Bharatiya Janata Party lawmaker from Uttar Pradesh, and kept pressing the issue despite Allahabad High Court dealing with the issue.
The apex court said Allahabad High Court had already passed some directions on the issue, also advocate was not the aggrieved person in the case and questioned his locus standi in the Unnao rape case.
During the hearing, the bench said if Sharma wants he may move the High Court which has the jurisdiction of the case in case, but it can not entertain his plea.
“The Allahabad High Court has already passed some orders in the case. Mr Sharma you are not an aggrieved person in the case. There cannot be a PIL in a criminal case,” the bench said.