Khevrajpur killings: TMC alleges 'massive cover-up', says victims were raped before being killed
New Delhi(PTI): Alleging a "massive cover-up" in the recent murder of five members of a family in Uttar Pradesh's Khevrajpur village, the TMC said the women members were "raped" before being killed.
The five family members were allegedly killed with sharp edged weapons in Khevrajpur village in Prayagraj district Friday night, police said.
"Yesterday our fact finding delegation went to Khevrajpur village in Prayagraj, UP to meet survivors of the mass murder of 5 people that happened 3 days ago.
"Shockingly, the family told us that bodies of 2 victims were found without clothes & with vaginal bleeding," TMC national spokesperson Saket Gokhale tweeted on Monday.
In a series of tweets, he alleged the police were told by the family members that they suspected two of the victims had been "raped before being beaten to death".
"Despite this, the police have NOT filed an FIR of rape. When questioned, the local SP said that the family hadn't given this in writing," he tweeted.
"One of these 2 victims was a 22-year-old woman who was paralyzed. I had to teach the SP the basics of law that once a cognizable offense is disclosed (even orally), police is bound to register an FIR. Clearly, a massive cover-up being done in a rape & murder case," Gokhale added.
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— Saket Gokhale (@SaketGokhale) April 25, 2022
Y’day our fact finding delegation went to Khevrajpur village in Prayagraj, UP to meet survivors of the mass murder of 5 people that happened 3 days ago.
Shockingly, the family told us that bodies of 2 victims were found without clothes & with vaginal bleeding
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One of these 2 victims was a 22-year-old woman who was paralyzed.
— Saket Gokhale (@SaketGokhale) April 25, 2022
I had to teach the SP the basics of law that once a cognizable offense is disclosed (even orally), police is bound to register an FIR.
Clearly, a massive cover-up being done in a rape & murder case.
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The shocking silence on this case in the media is baffling.
— Saket Gokhale (@SaketGokhale) April 25, 2022
This is a mass murder & rape case but no one’s saying a word because it’s Yogi’s UP.
We’ll be doing everything we can to get the family justice.
I’d appeal to all of you to not let this case get buried.
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Congress using hijab issue to pacify minority anger, alleges Karnataka LoP R Ashoka
Bengaluru: Leader of Opposition in the Assembly R. Ashoka has accused the Congress government of using the hijab issue to placate what he described as discontent among minority voters after the Davanagere by-election.
In a post on X on Wednesday, Ashoka alleged that the state government, instead of addressing issues such as price rise, corruption, farmers’ distress and law and order, was attempting to retain its minority vote base by reviving the hijab issue.
Referring to the 2022 dress code introduced by the BJP government, which prohibited hijab in schools and colleges, Ashoka said the Karnataka High Court had upheld the policy and emphasised the importance of discipline in educational institutions.
He questioned the Congress government’s move to revisit the issue and asked whether setting aside the court-backed policy to benefit one community could be described as secularism.
Ashoka further alleged that while the government was willing to permit hijab, it continued to prohibit saffron shawls.
He accused the government of dividing students on religious lines rather than treating schools and colleges as spaces of equality.
Drawing a comparison with Mamata Banerjee’s government in West Bengal, Ashoka claimed that excessive appeasement politics had harmed the state and warned that the Congress in Karnataka could face a similar political response.
He said voters in Karnataka would teach the Congress a lesson for what he termed “vote-bank politics” and for compromising constitutional and judicial principles.
