Former Chief Minister and Leader of Opposition Bhupinder Singh Hooda has stated that instead of taking appropriate action against the principal accused of sexual exploitation and getting the matter investigated by CBI, BJP-JJP are busy making unrestrained statements against the woman MLA Geeta Bhukkal who raised the voice of the victimized girls. Responding to the comments made by the Deputy Chief Minister in the Assembly against MLA and former minister Geeta Bhukkal, he said making wrong statements by the Deputy Chief Minister on the floor of the House is highly condemnable. Congress also gave a privilege motion against this.
“The Deputy Chief Minister claimed that a similar case had come up against the accused principal in 2005 and at that time MLA Geeta Bhukkal had defended the accused. The truth is that the accused was not in government service in 2005, this is beyond the facts,” he said.
“Similarly, the Deputy Chief Minister made another baseless claim that in 2011, a Panchayat was held at the residence of Geeta Bhukkal in Jhajjar, in which the accused principal was defended. Whereas the truth is that in 2011, Geeta Bhukkal did not have any residence in Jhajjar,” he added.
Hooda said that if any complaint against any person goes to the police station, and it is not converted into an FIR, then that record is deleted after 2 years. In such a situation, which DDR is Dushyant Chautala referring to after so many years? “This is petty politics to divert attention from the crimes of the accused and suppress those who raise the voice of children. Congress is demanding a CBI investigation into the entire matter, but why is the government is running away from the investigation,” he questioned.The Leader of Opposition said that this government has proved to be a complete failure in providing security to women. “After Jind, a case of exploitation of girls has also come to light in Kaithal. NCRB data clearly testifies that Haryana is the most unsafe state in the country for women,” he pointed out.
“NCRB data has once again exposed the BJP-JJP government that women are especially not safe in Haryana. Within just one year, 16,743 cases of crimes against women have been reported, which is 46 cases every day. Five cases of rape are being reported every day in the state. A total of 1787 rape cases were reported within a year. Six cases of acid attacks have been reported in the state. Every day four children are sexually abused in Haryana.
Under the POCSO Act, cases of sexual exploitation of 1272 girls were registered in Haryana. Of these, 68 boys were also made victims of sexual exploitation,” he said. “There has also been an increase of about 8% in all types of crimes against children in the state. In 2022, 3891 cases of kidnapping were registered, which is 11 kidnapping cases are reported every day in Haryana,” he added.
