The Congress stepped up attack on the BJP government Sunday over the gang-rape of a 19-year-old woman in Mahendragarh district, alleging that during its regime Haryana had become a "crime hub".
Senior Congress leaders Randeep Singh Surjewala and former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda demanded that Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar resign on moral grounds.
"The insensitive and arrogant Khattar government has totally failed to control crimes against the daughters of Haryana and he has no right to continue even for a day as the CM," Surjewala alleged in a statement here.
The young woman from Rewari was allegedly abducted and gangraped while she ws on her way to coaching classes and the three key accused, including an Army man, continued, to evade arrest.
Hooda, who visited her family in Rewari Sunday, demanded Khattar's resignation.
"Law and order in the state has broken down completely. This is total failure of the government. The chief minister should quit on moral grounds," he told reporters in Rewari.
Hooda said the victim's family told him that police had not promptly taken action, giving the key accused a chance to flee.
Launching a scathing attack, Surjewala said, "It is shocking that despite the national concern and loud claims by the state police, the key culprits of the heinous crime are roaming free for four days now."
Revealing a figure from National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data, Surjewala said, "In 2016, the Haryana Police filed chargesheets in only 56.2 percent of cases, which is the second lowest among all the states and Union Territories of the country. Such unprofessional attitude and ineffectiveness of the state police encourages the culprits as the national average of filing chargesheets is much higher at 78.1 percent."
Slamming the BJP government, Surjewala said, "The truth is the state government, which vows to save daughters has made the state a witness to the most number of rapes and gang-rapes."
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