TIL Desk UP/New Delhi/ A 14-year-old girl who was gang-raped near a highway in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr has moved the Supreme Court seeking police complaint against minister Azam Khan for his outrageous comments. The girl, along with her family, was going to a funeral late on July 29, when armed men stopped their car, tied and beat up the men and gang-raped the girl and her 35-year-old mother for almost three hours.
Earlier this month, as a group of BJP leaders headed to Ghaziabad to meet the family, Uttar Pradesh minister Azam Khan bizarrely suggested an “opposition conspiracy”. “We need to investigate whether this is a conspiracy by opponents who want to defame the government,” said Mr Khan, who is known to invite trouble with his loose talk.
“For votes, people can stoop to any level. There can be a Muzaffarnagar, a Shamli and Kairana…why not this? For power, politicians can murder people, trigger riots, kill innocent people, so the truth has to be found out,” he remarked. The BJP, in a sharp retort, said: “If you have an ounce of humanity, then try and catch the accused.” The party also demanded a CBI inquiry into the incident.
