New Delhi, Sept. 1 -- Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday lashed out at the Centre and the Uttar Pradesh government over the alleged gang-rape of a minor in a moving bus in Noida, and said there was no chance of any accountability being fixed for the police under Union Home minister Amit Shah and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath as this crime too shall have a curtain drawn over it.
The Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha said Delhi-NCR has become so unsafe for women that a minor girl was gang-raped for 47 km in a sleeper bus from Greater Noida to Delhi.
It's astonishing that neither the entire Delhi police nor the Noida police had the
slightest inkling of it, Gandhi said in a post in Hindi on X.
"This bus crossed the Noida-Greater Noida Expressway, Delhi's Ring Road, the border -- all of it -- without being stopped even once at a single checkpoint. Curtains were drawn over the bus seats so no one could see what was happening inside. And the perpetrators had no fear of the administration whatsoever," he said.
Even after so many years since the 'Nirbhaya' case, after so many such incidents, why are the rules for checking and monitoring such buses still not being followed, Gandhi asked.
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