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Uproar in LS over increasing cases of crime against women

New Delhi: It was not a usual day on Friday – either inside Lok Sabha or outside the House. When the country woke up, the news of all four accused in the Hyderabad rape case being shot dead in an encounter had hit the headlines and parliamentarians of the opposition parties were readying their arsenal to take on the government in Lok Sabha.

Soon after the end of Question Hour, leader of Congress in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury stood to flag the attention of the entire House towards the increase in cases of rape, saying that in spite of volcanic and seething anger coupled with indignation and hate against the gangrape incidents, there is no respite of this kind of brutal and bestial crime.

Raising the issue of setting afire a rape survivor in Uttar Pradesh's Unnao during Zero Hour, Chowdhury said on one side "Sita is being burnt", while on the other side plans are afoot to build a Ram temple, the Treasury Bench turned the tables on the opposition leader saying that his party was politicising and communalising the issue.

The Congress leader added that there are talks to make Uttar Pradesh an Uttam Pradesh (best state), it is become "Adharm Pradesh" (broadly, land of lawlessness).

Giving the example of the action taken by police in the Hyderabad rape case, Chowdhury said, "The police shot dead the Hyderabad rape accused when they tried to run-away, while UP police allowed rape accused to roam free on bail, which gave them the opportunity to 'burn alive' Unnao rape survivor."

Other parliamentarians, who expressed their views on rising rape cases, include BSP's Danish Ali, BJD's Anubhav Mohanty, TMC's Saugata Roy, Shiv Sena's Arvind Sawant, JD(U)'s Rajiv Ranjan alias Lalan Singh, Anupriya Patel and others.

Roy, on the rape issue, said, "I feel ashamed that we are forced to raise the issue of rape in this House. I don't know till when the incidents of crimes against women would keep on happening. The Unnao incident has happened due to laxity of police in the state."

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