I'm ashamed: PC on crime cases against women

December 05, 2019 16:19

Former finance minister and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Thursday turned emotional while talking about the rising cases of crime against women in the country.

Speaking to media , Chidambaram said, "I am shocked, I am ashamed. Yesterday, in one newspaper I found six incidents of rape and lynching. Shameful... It's a complete breakdown of law and order in many parts of India. What is the police doing? Where is the fear of law?"

In recent times, several politicians have expressed their concern over brutal gang-rape and murder of a doctor in Telangana.The doctor was brutally gang-raped and killed by four persons before they burnt her body in Shamshabad area on November 27. The four accused are currently in judicial remand custody at Cherlapally Central Jail in Hyderabad. -- PTI

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