Kin of Bengal rape victim meet Prez
Up in arms over “poor investigation” into the Barasat rape case, a delegation of the kin of the victim who was allegedly gangraped and murdered met President Pranab Mukherjee and demanded that the case be handed over to the CBI.
“We have no faith in the CID investigation. Only one demand we made in front of the President that he order a CBI enquiry and that justice should be very fast in a fast track court,” said a family member after the meeting.
The members of the delegation also sought more security for the women in the village and asked for presidential intervention. “The President gave us a patient hearing and assured us that he will convey the demand to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the minister of state for personnel as he cannot order the CBI enquiry,” the family member said.
“He said he will try his level best to get justice for the family. He assured us that justice will not be denied to us,” the victim’s kin said. The girl, a college student, was brutally gangraped and murdered in Barasat under North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal on June 7.
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, who had gone there on June 17 to meet the family of the victim, had to face angry women of Kamduni village in Barasat.
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