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| Rape accuser of BJP lawmaker battles for life after 'accident' |
| 2019-07-30 |
| [DAWN] Indian police were investigating on Monday a highway collision that critically injured a woman who had accused a politician of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of rape, a police officer said. The case against the politician in India's most populous state of Uttar Pradesh has been an embarrassment for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's BJP since 2018, after the woman tried to kill herself, saying police had refused to register her complaint. The woman and her lawyer were in a hospital battling for their lives after a truck on Sunday hit a car in which they were travelling, killing the woman's two aunts, who were also in the car, police official Rajeev Krishna said. "Our inquiry is going on and we will look into the family's allegations," Krishna, the additional director general of police, told news hounds in Lucknow, the state capital. One of the aunts was a witness in the rape case, which has cast a spotlight on lawlessness in the northern state, whose chief minister, Yogi Adityanath, a member of the BJP, has often touted his governments record on cracking down on crime. The accused politician, Kuldeep Singh Sengar, who has been in jail since last year, has denied the accusation of rape. His lawyer, Awadhesh Singh, said the case was a conspiracy to harm his political career. "It's just an accident," he told Rooters on Monday, referring to the car crash. However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... police have lodged a case of murder against Sengar, based on the family's complaint that he was involved in causing the crash, according to a copy of the report seen by Rooters. The woman's family said it feared for its safety, with her mother calling the crash a conspiracy by Sengar, who wanted the rape case against him withdrawn. "This is not an accident," the mother told news hounds at the hospital, adding that the family had faced threats over the rape case. "One by one, all the witnesses are being eliminated. We're afraid for our lives," said the mother, whose husband died while in police custody last year. Police have arrested the driver and owner of the truck. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 Arkancide goes global. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2019-07-30 08:20 |
| #3 Ref #2: It is the second sentence in Lord Acton's famous quote that is so often neglected: "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men...", |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2019-07-30 06:11 |
| #2 The average Indian politician. Uneducated, overtly criminal, steeped in unlawful activities, uncouth and devious. It's a result of identity politics that entered the Indian mainstream just a few years into independence. Appointments, promotions, selections on the basis of caste, color and class. Appeasement of historically oppressed classes led to the large scale compromise of an entire administrative structure including law, representation, education, everything except the military. No, the military alone survived. Because the politicians knew they were fucking every arm of govt for good, but what would they rule if 'no more India' ? Hence, the military was exempt from the unfair reparation laws requiring reservation of jobs for 'oppressed classes'. It crippled a young nation just as polio does before life even begins. There's no escaping it, India can get to the moon, throw marigold petals on Mars and celebrate diwali with particle cannons... but the fact remains India is an enslaved society. It is not a republic, or a democracy. It is a police state, where ruler is completely disconnected from the citizen and the innocent taxpayer is a constant victim, the citizenry capitulates to every whim of governments and the mostly incompetent judiciary. It isn't a question of right or left, or who's ruling at the center. The very core of governance in India is coercion and capitulation, without consensus. One safety valve we have is Indian cinema, a tableau into Indian angst at being enslaved by low-class boors. Every outrageous story contains politicians being beaten up, exposed, ridiculed. Dirty cops lynched or hammered by some heroic avataar that can dispatch an entire population of baddies at once. An Indian predilection to entreat deities instead of wading in, assholes and elbows, to deal with stuff is evident. Consider how leaders are worshiped and the world is expected of them. In the coming decades we expect to become a "Super Power". Wheeee ! India can't even comprehend what responsibilities and experiences come with that. The learned opposition to this madness and hypocrisy is driven by justifiable motivations, but it invariably finds it's way into yet more dangerous, Maoist dogmatism. Naturally, it is shut down violently. The existential truth about the Indian nation is bleak. And grows darker even as the media generates glowing tributes to ruling governments every day, obfuscating the fact that the real India, in the hinterlands, the suburbs, the villages is a hotbed of failed socialist experiments and corruption. Which is why I am alarmed at the sudden descent of western politics into the same cesspool. This shit is exactly where your politics is headed. Not that there haven't been rapist or criminal presidents or senators before, but the reckless abandon with which a class comes to rule over a neutered citizenry is becoming evident only now. At least they seek that outcome. Maybe it's because some American politicians are not actually American. They are mostly from erstwhile colonies or dictatorships and bring with them all the hubris of their own parent societies, seeking to re-create the same haven for their kind in America, or exacting some horrible vengeance for their own historical angst. -RANT ENDS- As for this 'accident', it was a planned hit. Very overt, very deliberate. The immediate killers who were arrested are pros and will be let off in a few years to continue their trade. A poor girl was held as a sex-slave after being lured by promise of employment by a powerful family. Her father was brutally killed by cops when he complained, her uncle framed and jailed and more than half of the witnesses murdered. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2019-07-30 04:58 |
| #1 The woman's family said it feared for its safety Which makes riding in a car with her a stupid thing to do. |
| Posted by: gorb 2019-07-30 04:50 |