New Delhi: The Congress Sunday accused the Delhi Police of working outdoors their jurisdiction and taking “orders from the highest” to “defame” social gathering chief Rahul Gandhi.
On Sunday morning, a staff of the Delhi Police, led by Particular Commissioner of Police (Regulation and Order), Sagar Preet Hooda, landed at Gandhi’s 12, Tughlak Lane, residence to observe up on a discover served to him Thursday, in search of data on the sexual harassment victims that he talked about in his speech in the course of the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Kashmir this January.
Based on the Congress, the discover contained a two-page questionnaire in search of the small print of girls who had complained of molestation, home violence and sexual abuse whereas talking to Gandhi in the course of the four-month lengthy Bharat Jodo Yatra that concluded in January.
Talking to the press on the Congress headquarters within the capital Sunday, Congress MP and lawyer Abhishek Manu Singhvi mentioned that since particular particulars wanted to be collated from a 4,000-km-long march, the police staff was advised Thursday that Gandhi would take 10 days to furnish the identical.
“On sixteenth, the police staff which got here was advised — they usually went again glad — that such great amount of particulars required will take a minimal of 7-10 days (to be furnished). There was no protest (at) that point. In the present day, subsequently, we have been stunned that the identical police staff with some further personnel landed once more (at Gandhi’s home) with related questions,” Singhvi advised reporters.
He additional acknowledged that the police’s questions associated to a speech Gandhi made in Jammu & Kashmir on 30 January and to different incidents and statements made outdoors Delhi.
Singhvi requested why the Delhi Police, underneath whose jurisdiction the instances don’t fall, was serving a discover in these issues. He additionally requested if some other political motion or occasion within the nation had been topic to such questioning.
“As everyone knows, such campaigns (just like the Bharat Jodo Yatra) contain a various cross-section of people that be a part of the marketing campaign on an ad-hoc foundation and air numerous grievances of all types. The grievances are listened to with sympathy and the place attainable, handed on to these strolling alongside, or they (the complainants) are suggested to take applicable motion. I don’t suppose any political chief in a marketing campaign is anticipated to cease immediately and search recourse to regulation on the premise of the a number of interactions and complaints made to him in the course of the marketing campaign,” Singhvi asserted.
“This (the police discover) is unprecedented, exceptional and smacks of the worst form of pettiness. That is politics of revenge and intimidation,” he added.
The Delhi Police, alternatively, mentioned they have been attempting to get “justice” for the victims who spoke to Gandhi.
Speaking to the media, Particular Commissioner of Police Hooda mentioned Sunday: “We’ve come right here to speak to him. Rahul Gandhi gave an announcement in Srinagar on January 30, saying that in the course of the yatra he met a number of ladies they usually advised him that that they had been raped. We’re attempting to get particulars from him in order that justice might be given to the victims.”
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He added, “It will be important for us to know whether or not there was any girl of Delhi who conveyed her message to Rahul Gandhi. This can be a severe matter. There could be a risk of the involvement of minors additionally.”
“Until now, no data has been given to us by Rahul Gandhi. Now we have urged him to supply data as quickly as attainable,” he advised the media.
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‘Distracting consideration from Adani rip-off’
Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot, who was additionally on the Congress press meet Sunday, mentioned that the motion by the Delhi Police wouldn’t have been attainable with out “orders from the highest”.
“When no criticism or FIR has been filed, what’s the police sending a discover (to Gandhi) for? Normally, at the least a zero FIR is filed in one other state earlier than the police of one other (territory) steps in. On this case, even that was not performed,” Gehlot alleged.
Congress MP and social gathering normal secretary Jairam Ramesh referred to as the police motion an try by the ruling authorities (BJP-led central authorities underneath whose ambit the Delhi Police capabilities) to distract consideration from the (Hindenburg Analysis) allegations towards the Adani Group.
“They’re doing this in order that the eye of the nation and Parliament might be taken away from the Adani rip-off,” Ramesh alleged on the press meet.
“Since 16 opposition events have requested for a joint parliamentary committee (probe into Adani case), since Rahul ji spoke for about 50 minutes on the Adani rip-off within the Lok Sabha, varied techniques are getting used to defame him,” he added.
(Edited by Nida Fatima Siddiqui)
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