Delhi cops at Rahul Gandhi’s doorstep over his ‘sexual assault’ remarks in Srinagar
NEW DELHI,MAR 19 : A team of Delhi Police, including Special CP Sagar Preet Hooda and Delhi DCP, reached Rahul Gandhi’s residence, seeking a response to the police’s notice to the Congress leader over his ‘women are still being sexually assaulted’ remark during a Srinagar speech.
Police, on March 16, taking cognisance of social media posts, had sent a questionnaire and asked Rahul Gandhi “to give details about women who approached him regarding sexual harassment”. In response, Congress said, “We will respond to the notice in due course in accordance with law.”
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Taking to Twitter, the Congress stated, “A government rattled by Shri Rahul Gandhi’s questions on PM Modi and Adani’s relationship hides behind its police. 45 days after Bharat Jodo Yatra was completed, Delhi Police has, via a notice, sought details of women who met him and spoke about harassment and violence they may have faced.”
“We will respond to the notice in due course in accordance with law. This notice is yet another proof of a government in panic and their latest salvo to weaken democracy, women empowerment, freedom of expression and role of the opposition,” Congress said in another tweet.
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Delhi Police’s move comes as the Congress party, despite promising to respond to the notice, failed to address it.
According to sources, two senior police officials went inside Rahul Gandhi’s residence.
Special CP Sagar Preet Hooda, who was at the Congress leader’s house, while talking to reporters, said, “We’ve come here to talk to him. Rahul Gandhi had given a statement in Srinagar on January 30 that during the Bharat Jodo Yatra, he met several women and they told him that they had been raped. We’re trying to get details from him so that justice can be given to victims.”
-The India Today
