Badal says Moga incident intolerable, promises justice

“This (Moga bus incident) is intolerable. The death of a girl in such conditions is very painful to me,” he told reporters in Patiala, where he went to pay homage to the mother of former minister Ajaib Singh Mukhmailpur.

Expressing deep sorrow over the death of teenage girl four days back, he said one could not compensate the loss of death. “I am going to Moga (to meet the family of girl),” Badal said. However, later the visit was cancelled without any reason being given.

“The CM is personally overseeing the Moga incident. He assures justice will be delivered in full to the family,” Harcharan Bains, Advisor (National Affairs and Media) to Punjab CM, said in Chandigarh on Sunday. Meanwhile, the family of the 13-year-old girl, who died after she was molested and pushed out of a private bus owned by Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal’s company, on Sunday agreed to her post-mortem and cremation.

The father of the girl and some members of her family said that they had agreed to the post-mortem and that her body would be cremated later on Sunday. Chaos prevailed at the Civil Hospital complex in Moga town on Sunday as local authorities and the police tried to get the consent of the family for conducting the autopsy and cremation.