Uttar Pradesh Congress on Wednesday organised a state-wide protest over the IIT-BHU gang-rape case alleging that the official machinery was misused to “shield” the accused.
In Lucknow, Congress workers protested near the party office in the afternoon raising slogans against the BJP government.
Talking to PTI, Congress spokesperson Manish Hindvi alleged that the accused were identified by the student in the CCTV footage but they were subsequently sent to Madhya Pradesh for BJP’s Assembly election campaign.
They were arrested two months later after much pressure, he further alleged. The party also demanded a judicial probe into the recent encounter of alleged criminal Vinod Upadhyay calling it a “well-planned murder” by the Special Task Force (STF) as he was against Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
“Upadhyay had no criminal records. He was against the chief minister and cases were filed against him in the past two years and he was killed in a well-planned manner,” Hindvi alleged.
