Wajahahat questions V K Singh on rape charges
against army
NEW DELHI, Dec 27 (Agencies): National Minorities
Commission Chairman Wajahahat Habibullah today criticised former army chief V K
Singh for taking to streets against the gang rape of a girl here asking whether
allegations of rape against personnel of the force in Jammu and Kashmir have
ever been enquired into. He said a productive
way would have been if people like Gen Singh would have advised the government
on dealing with such a situation. "In
his (Gen Singh's) case, I am sorry to say so he was Commander-in-Chief of the
army. There are, at least in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, massive
allegations of rape against army. Were they ever enquired into? Was an effort
made to bring justice? Here was a case of rape. Regrettable, yes. But if he
wants to join in condemnation of the government against that, has he taken into
account various ramifications of that," Habibullah said in an interview to
a national news agency.
He said it could be possible when
Singh was the army chief he was not able to remedy the cases although he may
have wanted to. But that was even more
reason to go to the Prime Minister, the Home Minister and tell them how to
handle it, he added. Habibullah said that things have changed during the last
two decades and army had tried to reach out to people of Jammu and Kashmir but
there exists a basic mistrust. "The
basic mistrust is because general transparency and accountability is not there.
If something goes wrong, if there is rape then machinery should come into
automatic activation. Like they would like the Delhi Police to have done,
surely the army such being a disciplined force should automatically go into
action about bringing to book any person responsible for that," he said,
adding if allegations are false then those facts should also be made public
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