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Centre to examine issue of CISF security for religious places

July 10, 2013

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Bodh Gaya, Jul 10: The Centre will examine the issue of handing over security of religious places like Bodh Gaya to CISF, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said today.

Addressing a press conference here after visiting the Mahabodhi Temple along with Congress President Sonia Gandhi, he said that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has pleaded for CISF takeover of the temple complex for better security.

"There are also requests for CISF cover for the Shirdi Sai Temple and the Jama Masjid. We will examine and take a call on the issue," he said.

He, however, appeared to suggest that it was difficult to fulfil the demand for all religious structures, saying that "many complexes are vulnerable".

Shinde and the Congress President were briefed about the sequence of terror attack in the temple town by the Bodh Gaya Temple Management Committee (BTMC) member secretary N. Dorje.

The leaders also offered prayers in the Mahabodhi Temple and lit candles.

Earlier, a group of people protested against the visit of the Congress president and the Union Home Minister outside the Mahabodhi Temple gate. The protesters raised slogans against them for visiting the temple town three days after the blasts.

Gandhi and others also visited the hospital where the two monks injured in the blasts are being treated.

The Union Minister and the Congress president later held a review meeting with Home Secretary Anil Goswami, CISF Spl. DG Arun Chaddha, NIA DG N R Wasan, Bihar DGP Abhayanand and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s representative Bijrendra Prasad Yadav, who is the Energy and Parliamentary Affairs minister in the JD(U) government.

Earlier, BJP leader Syed Shahanwaz Hussain made an unscheduled visit to the temple town but he and other BJP leaders were not allowed to proceed beyond the reception of the Mahabodhi Temple.

Criticising the Congress president and the Home Minister for visiting the temple town on "terror tourism", he said the Centre should provide adequate security arrangements to the world famous Buddhist shrine.

The BJP leader also criticised Shinde for visiting the temple town three days after the serial blasts rocked the town.

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February 20,2020

Kanpur, Feb 20: Inspector general, Kanpur range, has ordered a probe into a woman's allegation that the cops misbehaved with her at Raipurwa police station when she went there with her father to lodge a complaint of harassment and eve-teasing.

The woman posted her complaint on the Twitter handle of Kanpur police.

The woman, 21, alleged that instead of listening to her complaint, Raipurwa cops asked her, "Zyada padh gayi ho, itna advance kisne bana dia hai, tumhare Papa ne?" (You are too educated. Who made you so advanced - your father?)

She further said that instead of taking necessary action on her complaint, the police forced her father to compromise with the accused, the son of her landlord, who harassed her on Monday.

The woman also stated that there were no female cops at the police station and she had to wait for several hours.

"Throughout my presence at the police station, I had to interact with male cops," she tweeted.

Inspector, Raipurwa, Sunil Kumar, however, has denied allegations.

"Her allegations are not true. Both the parties settled the dispute on their own," he said.

IG Range, Mohit Agarwal, meanwhile, said, "I have asked the SSP to initiate a probe in this regard and take action against guilty cops."

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On Tuesday, the death toll was 13.

"The death toll has risen to 20 today," Medical Superintendent of GTB Hospital, Sunil Kumar, told PTI.

Earlier, at least four bodies were brought to the Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital from the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital, a senior official said.

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