New Delhi: The Supreme Court today pulled up Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan for claiming that the Bulandshahr gang rape case in Uttar Pradesh was a political conspiracy. A division bench of the Apex Court, headed by Justice Dipak Misra and also comprising Justice C Nagappan, issued notice to the UP Cabinet minister, and sought a reply from him for allegedly saying that the Bulandshahr gang rape case was a political conspiracy.
The Top Court said such statements made by political leaders like Azam Khan create mistrust among the public in the investigation and the entire system. The gang rape victims had approached the Apex Court seeks transfer of the case from the state of Delhi. The 68-year-old UP Minister, Khan, had alleged the brutal gang rape of a mother-daughter duo in Bulandshahr in the state could be due to a political conspiracy. Earlier the Allahabad High Court had ordered a CBI probe in the case.
According to the UP police, on July 29, a group of people had allegedly waylaid a family, dragged a woman and her 13-year-old daughter out of their car, took them to a nearby field and allegedly raped them while the male members of the family were tied with ropes. The family was travelling from Noida to Shahjahanpur when the incident took place in Bulandshahr on NH-91, the UP police had said. (UNI)
