BJP State Mahamantri and State BJP office in-charge Naresh Bansal met DGP MA Ganapathi on Saturday and demanded arrest of the dacoits who had allegedly looted and gangraped two minors in a Dalit-dominated area in Ramnagar, Nainital district on early July 24 morning.

The incident sent shock-waves across the State with the people alleging that police are sitting idle on it. DGP Ganapathi assured the saffron delegation that a team has been formed to crack the case at the earliest. Notably, around five persons with face covered had barged into the house in Ramnagar.  They allegedly looted cash and valuables and decamped after raping two minors from the same house. 

Police sources, while

denying that rape had been committed, said that prima facie it seemed that the criminals were acquainted with the members of the family. They are not ruling out the possibility of the crime committed at the behest of a jilted lover. 

The BJP leaders slammed the Congress-led State Government for the crumbling law and order across the State, alleging that crimes are on the spiral. They said that the State Government has failed to ensure security of the women and the girls of the State. Violence against women and child are on the rise, they said, adding that mining mafias, liquor mafias and criminals are ruling the roost with the ruling party politicians giving them protection. They cited the fact that police are yet to arrest any of the criminals involved in the heinous crime despite seven days having passed.    

The saffron leaders further said that the Dalits are the receiving end of the criminals, citing the fact that the crime had occurred at a Dalit-dominated area.  

A  BJP leader Vinay Goel  who was part of the delegation said that things look grim for the State with the  politician-police combine conniving with the  hardened criminals at the expense of the common insecure  people. “It seems they are intent on suppressing the incident. They are seeking to convince us that no rape was committed on the two minors by the robbers. But the question is why they had taken three days to have the medical examination of the supposed survivors done,” another BJP leader Neelam Sahgal asked.