New Delhi: Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has demanded a high-level investigation into the rape and murder of a girl of the Vishwakarma community in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghazipur, and sought immediate justice.
According to Kashmir24, in a post on X, Gandhi said the victim’s family faced threats and violence to stop them from filing an FIR.
“Hathras, Kathua, Unnao, and now Ghazipur—this is a pattern. Every time, the victim is Dalit, backward, tribal or poor,” he said in Hindi. He demanded action against guilty police officers, protection for the family, and said, “In a country and state where parents have to beg even to get an FIR filed for their daughter, that government has no moral right to remain in power.”