Rahul Gandhi additionally sought 8 to 10 days to offer an in depth response to the questions. (File)
New Delhi:
Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Sunday despatched a four-page preliminary reply to the Delhi Police’s discover about his “ladies nonetheless being sexually assaulted” comment made throughout the Bharat Jodo Yatra whereas questioning the method adopted by the authorities and a sudden urgency after a 45-day delay.
The Congress chief gave the 10-point reply hours after a Delhi Police crew knocked on his doorways for the third time in 5 days. He additionally sought 8 to10 days to offer an in depth response to the questions posed by Delhi police over his January 30 remarks, the sources mentioned.
The police crew headed by Special Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Sagar Preet Hooda arrived at Rahul Gandhi’s 12, Tughlaq Lane, residence round 10 am and was capable of meet the Congress chief after two hours, officers mentioned, including the crew left round 1 pm.
According to the police, Mr Gandhi said in Srinagar throughout the Bharat Jodo Yatra that “I’ve heard that girls are nonetheless being sexually assaulted”, and because the Yatra had handed by means of Delhi additionally, they needed to determine if any sufferer had approached the Congress chief right here in order that they will provoke a probe into the matter.
“The police had requested him to offer particulars of those victims in order that safety could possibly be supplied to them,” an official mentioned.
Sending a preliminary reply somewhat earlier than 4 pm, Rahul Gandhi termed the police motion “unprecedented” and requested whether or not this had something to do together with his place taken each inside and out of doors Parliament on the Adani subject, sources mentioned.
According to them, Mr Gandhi additionally requested what was the urgency on the a part of the Delhi Police in making two visits in as many days after an preliminary hole of 45 days after he made his speech in Srinagar.
The former Congress chief, the sources mentioned, requested whether or not another political get together, together with the ruling get together, has been subjected to such form of scrutiny or questioning over their political campaigns.
An indignant Congress has condemned the Delhi Police motion and attacked the Central authorities, calling it the “worst case of harassment and political vendetta”, however the BJP rejected the cost and mentioned the police was “solely discharging its lawful obligation”.
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