Sonia Gandhi meets girl, terms it 'matter of shame', tags Dikshit, Shinde, cops on rampant crime spree

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PTI: New Delhi, Dec 19 2012, 09:44 IST

Taking serious note of the ghastly incident of the gangrape of a girl, Congress President Sonia Gandhi today shot off strong-worded letters to Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, saying it was a "matter of shame" that such incidents happen with painful regularity.

Gandhi tonight visited Safdarjung Hospital to inquire about the condition of the 23-year-old victim, who is in a critical state, after Sunday night's incident, and sought "strictest possible measures" to ensure that there is no recurrence of such a barbaric crime.

Gandhi, who was at the hospital for about 15-20 minutes, talked to the doctors and met the victim's parents, according to Congress general secretary Janardan Dwivedi. Gandhi was told by the doctors that the girl was in a critical state, he said.

The Congress leader said in her letter to Dikshit that "such violence and criminality needs not only to be condemned, it calls for a concerted effort to fight it." In her letter to Shinde, the Congress president said "It is a shame for us, who are responsible for the security of our cities that a young woman can be raped in a moving bus in the capital of the country and flung on to the street."

Describing the incident as a "monstrous crime", Gandhi said this deserves not only universal condemnation but also the "Government's most urgent attention".

"It is imperative that the police and other agencies concerned are sensitised to the dangers that our daughters, sisters and mothers face everyday. The security agencies

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Meat of Indian Children at Walmart

Satish Chandra | 20-Dec-2012Reply | Forward

CIA-RAW are now trying to buy off India's nuclear forces by having Pranab Mukherjee give a presidential standard to an air force squadron where some of their relatives work and having him say that the corner stone of India's defence policy is an "effective deterrent" that can be used at any time, to keep India's nuclear forces from triggering the warheads. As I have said, since the enemy -- the United States -- holds India in slavery, it is meaningless to talk of 'deterring' the United States; the task is to destroy, not deter, the United States. Pranab Mukherjee and the entire Indian government work for the enforcement of the Anglo-American ownership of India: IndiasTraitorGovtAndMediaDOTblogspotDOTcom The outrage at the gang rape and brutalization of a girl in New Delhi and the incident itself has been engineered by RAW to divert attention from its trafficking of Indian children to be used a food: RAWsTraffickingOfIndianChildrenDOTblogspotDOTcom . There is a large and growing market for the meat of Indian children in certain countries. A large number of Indians in the Meerut area and elsewhere are employed in this industry -- the busting of "a 150-member gang, which allegedly used to slaughter abducted children, roast their bodies and eat them after failing to strike a handsome deal with child traffickers" was reported at : dailyDOTbhaskarDOTcom/article/UP-another-horror-nithari-like-vampires-exposed-in-meerut-2878885DOThtml . The plans for Walmart's entry into India include a vast expansion of this industry, setting up better and more efficient supply chains and processing plants within India; at present the children are taken out of India to be processed. If the reasons for India's nuclear forces not yet having triggered India's nuclear warheads are not technical but behavioral -- they don't yet feel ready to take a step of such enormity -- they are like Arjun at the beginning of the Mahabharat war. But like Arjun, they are instruments of India's legitimate ruler which is myself and I have clearly stated what I want done. To convince Arjun, Krishna showed him his 'Virat Roop'. My Virat Roop is the coast-to-coast destruction of the United States five years later that I have described: JoinIndiaWarOfIndependenceDOTblogspotDOTcom

Foolproof security for the "leaders" but non for aam admi

S Sankar G | 19-Dec-2012Reply | Forward

Delhi police has enough personnel ensure security of the "leaders" and to their credit they were successful for the last so many year in that. Security and protection of the common man is only an after thought, which would be done based on the media/political pressure in individual cases if they have some personnel left over from the security details of the V and VVIPs. The cops should be made accountable to the public.

Gangrape and sympathy

Monte | 19-Dec-2012Reply | Forward

It's really horrible, but the politician now use this matter as there outfit.... they are accusing one another without considering this kind of outrageous events for future. they never can understand the problem of common people,