Demanding CBI inquiry into the case of alleged rape and abortion of a speech and hearing impaired inmate of Nari Niketan, scores of BJP Mahila Moracha members rallied up to the Collectorate while shouting slogans against the State Government on Saturday.
The protesters submitted a memorandum demanding the same to the DM. They alleged that the State Government keeps sitting on the CBI probe demand being raised by the main Opposition party. The women BJP activists said that the State Government had been protecting some high profile persons involved in the case. The incident of alleged rape and abortion of a speech and hearing impaired inmate of Nari Niketan left the people shocked. Senior Congress leaders had given clean chit soon after the issue came into light. However, SIT was formed by the State government after BJP had pressured the State Government to conduct an independent inquiry into the incident.
Notably, SIT has so far arrested eight persons involved in the case. Those arrested so far are all ex-employees or employees of the shelter home located at Nehru Colony in Dehradun. They are Nari Niketan nurse Kiran Nautiyal, resident of Kedarpuram and Nari Niketan teachers—Chandrakala Kshetri, resident of Raipur and Samanigar, native of Banaras (Uttar Pradesh), Anita Mendola and fourth class employee Krishna Kanchha, resident of Rajpur, Nari Niketan, former superintendent Minakshi Pokhriyal, Mohammad Hasim, resident of Teliwala, Doiwala and lalit Singh Bisht, resident of Vaibhav Vihar Nawada, Nehru Colony.