‘Shameful for humanity,’ Congress, SP criticise Adityanath government in UP

Several Opposition parties criticised the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government on Wednesday over the gangrape and murder of a 50-year-old woman in Uttar Pradesh’s Budaun district, reported PTI.

The incident took place on January 3 night after she went to a local temple, but an first information report was filed only on Tuesday evening after the woman’s postmortem report revealed injuries in her genitalia. The police have filed a case against two men, including a priest. Her husband said that the accused dropped her home in car, claiming that she had fallen into a well. According to him, she died a few minutes later. However, the woman’s son said his mother was dead when the men dropped her home.

Reacting to the incident, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi accused the Adityanath-led government of being indifferent towards the security of women in the state. “In Hathras, the government administration did not listen to the voice of those pleading,” she tweeted in…

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