Shimla, June 29
Congress president Pratibha Singh today blamed the media for distorting her statement regarding the Gudiya rape case as part of a conspiracy.
“I never said the Gudiya rape case was a minor crime. It is condemnable that the media has distorted my statement as part of a conspiracy,” she said. The BJP is gunning for her for her statement reported in the media.
Pratibha, in a press note issued here, accused the BJP of trying to divert the attention of people from the police constable recruitment paper leak case. “When the Gudiya rape case happened, the BJP set ablaze Kotkhai police station. The then Chief Minister constituted an SIT and later handed over the probe to the CBI on the request of the family of the victim,” she said.
She said that she had visited the family of the victim and stands with it even today. It was at a function in Lahaul and Spiti yesterday that she reportedly said that “the BJP had created furore over a minor crime”.
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