Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee normal secretary Swarnim Chaturvedi addressing get together staff at an indication outdoors the Enforcement Directorate’s workplace in Jaipur on Thursday.
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The Opposition Congress in Rajasthan on Thursday refuted the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering’s cost that its authorities within the State had protected the convicts sentenced to life imprisonment within the 1992 Ajmer intercourse scandal case, through which greater than 100 women within the metropolis have been victimised. The BJP has alleged that three of the convicts have been beforehand linked to Congress.
Pradesh Congress Committee normal secretary Swarnim Chaturvedi stated right here that these concerned within the intercourse racket have been punished by the POCSO Particular Court docket after their trial, which couldn’t be influenced by any authorities or a political get together. “The due means of legislation has been adopted within the conviction of rapists. The prosecution offered its case within the courtroom regardless of any get together being in energy,” Mr. Chaturvedi stated.
Mr. Chaturvedi, who can be the PCC spokesperson, stated a number of the convicts have been earlier members of the get together, however there was no query of any Congress chief attempting to guard them. “This tradition is prevalent within the BJP, which welcomes the rapists with garlands after they come out of jail,” he stated.
He stated the BJP had “no ethical proper” to forged aspersions on the Congress when its personal leaders, together with former MPs and MLAs, have been going through expenses and present process trial within the rape circumstances in numerous courts of a number of States.
The Congress chief challenged BJP’s nationwide spokesperson Prem Shukla to show his allegation that the earlier Congress governments had labored for giving clear chit to the criminals belonging to a selected faith. “Each the Congress and the BJP have been in energy in Rajasthan since 1992 when the scandal was uncovered. The place was the scope for giving clear chit to anybody?” Mr. Chaturvedi stated.
