Jaipur, March 23: The National Commission for Women (NCW) sent a three-member fact-finding team to Rajasthan's Dholpur where a 26-year-old woman was reportedly gang-raped at gunpoint in front of her children and husband.
The team will meet the victim and her family and will hold a meeting with the concerned SHO, SP and Investigating Officer in the case.
However, Shivraj Meena, Superintendent of Police, Dholpur on Monday (March 21), denied the incident of alleged gang rape of a 26-year-old woman and said it was a case of assault. After the ongoing investigation for three days on the incident of "gang rape" of the 26-year-old woman, the SP said, "Every aspect of the case was thoroughly investigated by recording the statements of 164 persons. Investigation revealed that there was no incident of gang rape with the victim."
However, the SP has admitted to an assault on the woman. He stated, "Investigation revealed that on March 15, six people of the village had beaten up the woman. After this, the woman filed a case of gang rape. The accused who assaulted the woman have been identified. "
Earlier this month, Shanti Dhariwal, Parliamentary Affairs Minister of Rajasthan, had made crass jokes about rapes, saying that “There is no doubt in the fact that we are at number one in rape cases. Why are we ahead in rape cases? Is there some fault within us? What can we do? Rajasthan has always been the state of ‘mards’.”
Such are the leaders in the state of Rajasthan, which supposedly reported the highest number of rape cases across India in 2020, as many as 5,310.