Rapists should be publicly hanged: MP minister Usha Thakur
Mhow (MP) (PTI): Madhya Pradesh Culture Minister Usha Thakur has demanded that rapists be publicly hanged and their funeral should not be allowed in a bid to deter people from committing such crimes.
Thakur made the comments while addressing a gathering at Kodariya village of Mhow tehsil in Indore district on Monday night. A video of the Mhow MLA's remarks surfaced on social media.
"I want that the rapists of daughters should be publicly hanged and the funeral of such persons should not even be allowed. Let eagles and crows nibble the body of such a person. When everyone watches this scene, no one will dare to touch the daughters again," Thakur said.
When PTI contacted Thakur over her views, she said, "Such things should reach the maximum number of people and it is for the good of the society."
The minister said rapists commit crime publicly and are punished in jail due to which there is no fear among them.
She also appealed to people to come forward for a signature campaign to seek death sentence for rapists and said women from every family should participate in it.
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UP: five men get life imprisonment for trying to kill toll booth employees
Bareilly: A court here on Friday sentenced five people to life imprisonment for assaulting and trying to kill toll booth employees in 2019.
Sunny, Sumit, Vinod Maurya, Rajat Gangwar and Ankit were sentenced for trying to kill toll booth employees on the Bareilly-Nainital highway in Bhojipura by running a car over them in 2019, District Government Advocate Digambar Singh said.
Additional Sessions Judge (Fast Track Court) Ravi Kumar Diwakar also imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on each of the convicts.
While delivering the verdict, the judge said not paying the road tax would weaken the economic condition of the nation and by their act, the convicts challenged the authority of the state government.
Such people who create an atmosphere of fear by committing such incidents in public places are also enemies of the general public, hence such criminals should be given strict punishment, the judge said.
