Khan’s Statement on Bulandshahr Objectionable and Insensitive: SC

The victims’ family asked Azam Khan whether he would call the crime a conspiracy if it had happened to his kin.

Bulandshahr gangrape victims’ family question Azam Khan’s statement (Photo: Altered by The Quint)

Taking note of a plea of the father of the Bulandshahr gangrape victim that the probe and trial in the case be shifted out of Uttar Pradesh, the Supreme Court today issued notice to the state government and its minister Azam Khan in the matter.

A bench took note of the alleged controversial statement of the state’s Urban Development Minister Khan that the incident was a “political conspiracy”, as the plea sought the registration of an FIR against him.

The bench called the statement “objectionable and insensitive”, said a report in The Times of India.

Why should people in power and authority make such statements which shakes the faith of victims in the justice delivery system.

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The plea sought “appropriate damages” for the victims besides a direction that the state and others, including the DGP, be stopped from infringing on the fundamental right to life of the victims.

The plea also alleged that the police did not come to the victims’ aid despite the incident happening 100m from a police post.

The brutal incident took place on the night of 29 July when a group of highway robbers stopped the car of a Noida- based family and sexually assaulted the woman and her daughter after dragging them out of the vehicle. The vehicle had four other occupants.

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(With inputs from PTI)