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Badaun case: Maneka to set up rape crisis centres

India Blooms News Service | | Jun 03, 2014, at 01:10 am

#Badaun case: Maneka Gandhi to set up rape crisis centres

New Delhi, June 2 (IBNS): Women & Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi on Monday said that her department was taking the Badaun gangrape and murder case in Uttar Pradesh very seriously and is setting up rape crisis centres to tackle such cases.

"Even if there were no Badaun case, my first priority was to establish functioning rape crisis centers. We have have taken this very seriously. This is number one on my priority. Will establish rape crisis centres. These centres will have team of doctors, lawyers and police," she told reporters here.

She has, however, ruled out any possibility of her visiting Badaun district even as several politicians including Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi, BSP chief Mayawati and LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan met the victims' family.

Two Dalit minor sisters were allegedly gangraped and then hanged from a tree at Katra village in Badaun on May 27.

The cousin sisters, aged 14 and 15 respectively, were reportedly missing since May 27 night.

The victims' family alleged that the police refused to register a a First Information Report (FIR) into the incident.

Later, coming under pressure from angry locals who took to the streets demanding action against the culprits, the police registered an FIR against seven people, including two constables of Ushait police station.

UP CM Akhilesh Yadav on Friday said that the Badaun rape case will be sent to a fast track court.

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