‘No justice from police’: Woman files gang rape case against MLA Munirathna with BJP leaders
Bengaluru: A woman, whose complaint accusing BJP legislator Munirathna of rape was closed by SIT for lack of evidence, has now approached the BJP leaders, saying she has been denied justice by the police.
She is learned to have visited the party office in Malleswaram, Bengaluru, on Friday and filed a complaint the MLA.
The woman reportedly told the leaders that she had been gang raped by Munirathna and his associates but the police had submitted a B-report in the case, having failed to conduct a probe going by her complaint. She is learned to have accused the legislator’s supporters of having come to her house and raised a ruckus there.
Pointing out that she is a woman activist of the BJP, the complainant said that she was informing the State President of the matter and had also messaged National General Secretary BL Santhosh on WhatsApp, as she desperately sought justice.
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West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee moves SC against SIR
New Delhi (PTI): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has filed a petition in the Supreme Court against the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in the state, sources said on Sunday.
The petition names the Election Commission (EC) and the chief electoral officer of West Bengal as respondents. It was filed before the apex court on January 28, the sources said.
Banerjee arrived in Delhi on Sunday. She is scheduled to meet Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar at 4 pm on Monday to discuss the ongoing SIR exercise in West Bengal. The Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo would be accompanied by a delegation of party leaders.
She is also likely to meet party MPs in the Parliament House on Monday.
Talking to reporters at the Kolkata airport before leaving for the national capital, Banerjee claimed that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at the Centre is resorting to the SIR exercise because it is certain of its imminent defeat in the West Bengal Assembly polls, due in a few months, and said the saffron party should contest the election politically and democratically.
The West Bengal chief minister has written several letters to the CEC, raising concerns over the conduct of the exercise.
In her most recent letter to the CEC on January 31, she alleged that the methodology and approach of the exercise went beyond the provisions of the Representation of the People Act and the relevant rules, causing "immense inconvenience and agony" to citizens.
Earlier, TMC leaders, including Rajya Sabha MPs Derek O'Brien and Dola Sen, had moved the apex court, challenging certain aspects of how the SIR is being carried out in West Bengal.
