Lambasting the home department for its alleged failure to maintain order, he said, “The Sena will not tolerate atrocities against women.”
MUMBAI: Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray on Friday accused migrants of giving Mumbai a bad name. He was referring to the Juhu molestation case in which at least half the suspects were Marathi speakers.
Lambasting the home department for its alleged failure to maintain order, he said, “The Sena will not tolerate atrocities against women.”
Thackeray said, “The police should have paraded the accused in the case. If they are unable to do that, they should hand them over to us.” Reacting to the statement, Congress spokesman Sanjay Nirupam said, “Criminals don’t belong to any community, class or caste.
They deserve to be punished for their crimes. It would be unfair to hold migrants responsible. The constable who raped a woman on Marine Drive two years ago was not a migrant. It is not proper to politicise such issues.”
Thackeray’s attack on the home ministry came within 24 hours of Sena newspaper Saamna defending the police. In an editorial on Friday, the paper had asked why the police were being blamed for the incident. Sena chief Bal Thackeray is the paper’s editor.
Sanjay Raut, MP and executive editor of Saamna, justified the editorial. “It is high time society does some introspection,” he said. “After all, the perpetrators and the victims are all part of the social system. We can’t hold the police alone responsible.
Is it possible for the police to visit every house or hotel room to keep vigil? Cultural denigration in Mumbai requires introspection instead of just passing the buck to the police.”
Sena spokesperson Neelam Gorhe, however, has blamed the police. She said, “Society is responsible for good and bad things. But it does not mean the police should remain silent spectators when a crime is happening under their noses. Initially, they did not register cognisable offences.
They claimed that the women were not ready to register a complaint. But they should have understood their mental condition.”
A delegation led by Gorhe met ACP Mohammad Kaisar on Thursday at the Juhu police station and gave him a memorandum. Gorhe warned of an agitation by the Sena if the law were not amended to punish the perverts.
t_kiran@dnaindia.net
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