Demanding to know why it has become so difficult for victims to even go to the police station and register an FIR, leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said that after West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, the shameful crimes against daughters in Maharashtra “force us to think where are we heading as a society?”In a post in Hindi on X, Gandhi alleged that “after the crime against two innocent children in Badlapur, the first step to give them justice was not taken until the public came out on the streets to demand justice. Will we now have to protest to even register an FIR? Why has it become so difficult for victims to even go to the police station?”
He lashed out at the authorities saying that “instead of focusing on ensuring justice for the victims, more efforts are made to try and hide the crime” and the biggest victims of this are women and people of weaker sections”.
“Not filing an FIR not only discourages the victims but also encourages the criminals,” the Congress leader warned. He further said that all govts, citizens and political parties will have to seriously brainstorm on what steps should be taken to provide a safe environment for women in the society,” Rahul Gandhi said.