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New Delhi: In a huge embarrassment for the ruling Samajwadi Party, the Supreme Court on Thursday asked Uttar Pradesh minister Azam Khan to tender an unconditional apology for calling the Bulandshahr gang-rape case a ”political conspiracy.”.
The apex court sought Attorney General’s s assistance in dealing with statements of persons holding public offices in cases like rape and molestation.
An SC bench comprising justices Dipak Misra and C Nagappan asked Akhilesh Yadav-led government to ensure admission of the gang-rape victim in a nearby central school.
The expenses incurred on the victim’s admission and education shall be borne by the state government, the court ordered.
Khan had stoked a controversy in August 2016 when he said that the Bulandshahar highway rape case could be a ‘political conspiracy to malign the image of the Akhilesh Yadav-led SP government in Uttar Pradesh’.
The man, whose wife and daughter were gang-raped on a highway in Bulandshahr, had on August 13 moved the apex court seeking transfer of the case to Delhi, besides lodging of an FIR against Khan as well as several policemen.
The brutal incident had happened on the night of July 29 when a group of highway robbers stopped the car of a Noida-based family and sexually assaulted the woman and her daughter after dragging them out of the vehicle which had four other occupants.
