Anger rises over MP rape, Jyotiraditya Scindia seeks CBI probe

Bhopal: Anger over the gang rape and torture of the seven-year-old school girl in Mandsaur in Madhya Pradesh four days ago on Saturday poured onto the streets in the state with irate people demanding mob justice for the two accused involved in the heinous crime.

Fearing threat to life of the two accused during hearing in the case in the court, Madhya Pradesh government toyed with the idea of conducting its trial in the jail, official sources told this newspaper here on Saturday.

“We fear repetition of the Indore incident in which the accused in the rape and murder of a four-month-old girl was thrashed by the people while being taken to the court during the trial of the case last month, in this case also.

The Mandsaur incident has sparked anger among the people in the state. In fact, the protest against the incident has spread across length and breadth of Mandsaur district where people were seen taking out rallies everyday demanding to hand them over the two accused to hang them in public”, sources in chief minister’s office (CMO) here said. Hence, the state government was mulling to move the court pleading to conduct trial of the case in the jail where the two accused have been lodged, sources added.

Meanwhile, doctors in MY Hospital in Indore, where the kid has been admitted, on Saturday issued a medical bulletin stating that the victim has shown sign of improvement in her health.

Doctors hoped that she may be discharged in three weeks if she maintained improvement in her condition. Meanwhile, protests against the horrific incident across the state continued for the third day on Saturday.

People were seen taking out candle marches in almost all the towns and semi-urban areas in the state.

In another development, Congress MP from Guna Jyotiraditya Scindia on Saturday demanded to hand over the Mandsaur case to the CBI for probe saying that he was not satisfied with the casual manner the police was conducting investigation into the case.