Don’t create uproar over one or two rape cases, says minister
FURORE Santosh Gangwar says govt taking steps but at times such crimes can’t be stopped LUCKNOW:
Wading into a controversy, Union minister of state Santosh Gangwar on Sunday said “brouhaha” should not be created over “one or two rape cases” in a big country like India.
The remarks come at a time when the country is witnessing public outrage over brutal rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Jammu’s Kathua and that of a 17-year-old girl in Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao allegedly by a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator.
“Such incidents (rape cases) are unfortunate situation...But sometimes you can’t stop them. Government is active everywhere and taking action which is visible to everyone, “he told reporters in Bareilly.
“In a big country like ours, if one or two incidents take place, brouhaha should not be created over it. This is not fair... Government is taking effective steps...Whatever is necessary will be done,” he said.
Gangwar, who is a BJP MP from Bareilly, holds protfolio of minister of state (Independent Charge) for labour and employment.
President Ram Nath Kovind on Sunday promulgated an ordinance to provide stringent punishment, including death penalty, for those convicted of rape of girls below 12 years.
Under the Criminal Law Amendment Ordinance cleared by a Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, new fast-track courts will be set up to deal with such cases and
Such incidents (rape cases) are unfortunate...But sometimes you can’t stop them... In a big country like ours, if one or two incidents take place, brouhaha should not be created over it.
SANTOSH GANGWAR, Union minister of state
special forensic kits for rape cases will be given to all police stations and hospitals in the long term.
In his first comments on the incidents of rape in Unnao and the sexual assault and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua, Prime Minister Narendra Modi last week said that no criminal will be spared and daughters will get justice.
“Such incidents shake our sensibilities. I want to assure the nation that no criminal will be spared. Justice will be done. Our daughters will get justice,” he had said at an event to inaugurate the BR Ambedkar memorial.
While in London to attend the just-concluded Commonwealth Summit, Modi had said that rape of a daughter was a matter of shame for the country.
MALIWAL ENDS FAST
Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chief Swati Maliwal on Sunday ended her hunger strike after President Ram Nath Kovind promulgated an ordinance to give stringent punishment, including death penalty, for those convicted of raping girls below 12 years.
She was on the hunger strike for the last 10 days at Rajghat here.
“There was no strategy, but gradually people joined the movement across the country. It gained such a momentum that the Prime Minister after returning to India had to make an amendment in the law. I congratulate the people of India for this victory,” the DCW chairperson said.