UTTARAKHAND CONGRESS MEETS GOVERNOR. PRESENTS A MEMO ON UTTARKASHI INCIDENT OF RAPE AND MURDER

The Uttarakhand State Congress Committe has become extremely focussed and active on the issue of women safety in the hill state, especially after the increasing incidents of assaults on women and increasing criminalisation of the state.

The recent diabolical murder after the shamefulb and obnoxious rape of a 14 year old girl hailing from the lowest strata of the society has in reality shaken the conscience of each and every person of the Himalayan state which once used to be peaceful but has now assumed the status of a real haven for the criminals from within and outside the state.

Sounds shocking, horrible and anguishing indeed. Meanwhile, a delegation of the Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee under the leadership of its president and former minister in the previous Congress governments Pritam Singh today met he governor Dr. K. K. Paul and presented him a memorandum expressing grave concern over the increasing incidents of assaults on the minors, incests and women of the state and the subsequent faiure of the state BJP government to stringently counter this increasing menace.

The two page memorandum signed by Pritam Singh, state Congess president and eleven other Congressmen has accused the BJP government of having completely failed on the law and order and giving the state a fearless environment as promised by them in their election menifesto. Highlighting the most diabolical and horrible incident of Uttarkashi and the assault of the girls of Blind school in Dehradun etc the memorandum states that the state government of BJP has completely failed on the women security front making them more vulnerable and prone to future assaults and victimisation at the hands of the human beasts active in Uttarakhand having no terror of the law and order machinery led by a vision less government.

The memorandm demands Rs ten lakhs as compensation for the family of the deceased of Uttarkashi incident and stringent action against the culprits of Uttarkashi and Rashtria badhit drishti sansthan at the earliest. The delegation has requested the governor of Uttarakhand to intervene in both the matters personally and accord justice to the sufferers.