Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 4: Expressing anger and resentment against the hospital authorities of Nowshera and Rajouri, BJP women leaders demanded stern action against the staff which harassed the rape victim girl and his father.
BJP State secretary Rajni Sethi, while addressing a press conference alongwith State vice-President Sakina Bano, Mahila Morcha Prabhari Purnima Sharma (Adv.), Mahila Morcha vice-president Kamala Gupta and Mahila Morcha secretary Sunita Arora, said that the CM should himself intervene and ensure speedy trial under Fast Track Court to punish the rapist, who committed such heinous crime on a minor girl in Nowshera on June 1st. She also appealed the Chief Minister to immediately suspend the hospital staff of Nowshera and Rajouri for their ill-behavior.
Sethi said that the crime against women, young females in particular, has gone up by 75% in Jammu and Kashmir. In the year 2012, a total of 303 rape cases were registered while in 2013 it went upto 378, she said and added that rise in the percentage of such crimes is an indication that the Government has never been serious towards safety and security of women and the criminal minded people do not fear while committing such crimes.
Meanwhile Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, (BJYM) held a protest against the State Government over the “Nowshera rape case” and burnt the effigy of Health Minister Taj Mohi-ud-Din at Press Club here today. Led by the State President of BJYM Ravinder Raina and its Prabhari Yudhvir Sethi, large number of youth workers of protested against the Government by raising slogans and criticised the State Government for its failure to provide justice to the rape victim .
Addressing the protesters Ravinder Raina said a ten year teenager was raped in Nowshera area of district Rajouri and when the family members of the rape victim went to Sub District Hospital Nowshera for first aid, the doctors did not pay any heed towards the victim and referred her to Rajouri District Hospital.
Yudhvir Sethi in his address lambasted the State Government and said the NC-Congress was a total failure on all fronts.
He said women are feeling insecure in NC-Congress regime.
Meanwhile BJP Mahila Morcha State president Priya Sethi visited the Sarwal Hospital and met the Victim. She demanded setting up of rape crisis centres in J&K
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