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| Victim's father demands CBI probe, |
| Bengal gang-rape: Victim's father demands CBI probe, to meet President today
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| INDIA
, 4-January-2014
21:44:41 PM |
| Demanding a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe, the grieving father of the teenage Bengal girl - gang-raped twice and allegedly set ablaze - on Saturday said the family would meet President Pranab Mukherjee on January 7 amid mounting protests in the city.
"We are scheduled to meet the President on January 7 and will place our demand for a CBI inquiry," said the father, a taxi driver hailing from Bihar's Samastipur district.
"I want to request the CBI to carry out a thorough investigation ... so that I get mental peace. If there is no proper probe, we will again go to the President with our grievance."
Accusing the West Bengal administration of failing to conduct a proper probe, he questioned the absence of forensic investigation into the burning incident and expressed concerns over the family not being given security.
Hounded out of their rented room in Madhyamgram of North 24 Parganas district after the gang-rape, the family had shifted to a small room close to the Kolkata airport, but had to leave that too after the 16-year-old student's death fearing for their security following threats from miscreants.
The family has now taken refuge at the state headquarters of the Centre of Trade Unions, the labour arm of the Communist Party of India-Marxist.
"It has been so many days ... we do not have any kind of security. They (those who set her ablaze) were not quizzed ... no forensic tests were carried out ... that means they want the case to be closed."
Meanwhile, political parties and organisations continued to hit the streets demanding punishment of the culprits and denouncing the administrative and police "apathy" towards the girl's family.
Singer-turned-dissident Trinamool Congress MP Kabir Suman, virtually in tears over the tragedy, cried shame and penned a song condemning the police and the administration and highlighting the girl's fate.
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