New Delhi:(Page3 News Network)-Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today directed Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde to ensure sense of security in Delhi and see that incidents like last Sunday's gang-rape do not recur. The directive came when Shinde called Dr. Singh to brief him on the situation in the aftermath of the gang-rape incident.Mr. Shinde told the Prime Minister that he was personally monitoring the situation. Dr. Singh asked Mr. Shinde to take all measures to see that there is no recurrence of the incidents like the recent gang-rape of 23-year-old girl who was also brutally assaulted by the six accused.
In a related development, Congress President Sonia Gandhi today spoke to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asking for swift and immediate action in the horrendous gangrape incident.
Her telephonic conversation with the Prime Minister follows two strongly-worded letters from her to Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and Delhi Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit on December 18th.
In her letter to Shinde, the Congress President had said, it is a shame for all, 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. She had also noted with concern that it was a matter of shame that such incidents happen with painful regularity. Mrs.Gandhi had also visited the Safdarjung Hospital to inquire about the condition of the 23-year-old victim,who was in a critical state, after Sunday night's incident.
In the letters, Mrs.Gandhi had sought strictest possible measures to ensure that there is no recurrence of such a barbaric crime.
