{"id":313088,"date":"2019-06-07T08:09:17","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T08:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=313088"},"modified":"2019-06-07T08:09:17","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T08:09:17","slug":"uttar-pradesh-rahul-priyanka-condemn-toddlers-murder-in-aligarh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/uttar-pradesh-rahul-priyanka-condemn-toddlers-murder-in-aligarh\/","title":{"rendered":"Uttar Pradesh: Rahul, Priyanka condemn toddler&#8217;s murder in Aligarh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-313089 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rahulsonia-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"506\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/rahulsonia-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/rahulsonia.jpg 491w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 506px) 100vw, 506px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress\u00a0chief\u00a0Rahul\u00a0Gandhi\u00a0and party general secretary Priyanka\u00a0Gandhi\u00a0Vadra on Friday condemned the brutal killing of a\u00a0two-and-a-half-year-old\u00a0girl in Uttar Pradesh&#8217;s\u00a0Aligarh\u00a0district and demanded strict action against the accused.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rahul Gandhi asked the UP police to act swiftly to bring the killers to justice<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe horrific murder of a little girl in Aligarh, UP has shocked and disturbed me. How can any human being treat a child with such brutality? This terrible crime must not go unpunished. The UP police must act swiftly to bring the killers to justice,\u201d Rahul Gandhi said in a tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Priyanka condemned the incident, calling it an \u201cinhuman, unspeakable crime\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe brutal murder in Aligarh is yet another inhuman, unspeakable crime against an innocent child. I cannot even begin to imagine the pain her parents must feel. What has become of us?\u201d Priyanka tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress party also tweeted, \u201cWe are angry &amp; outraged at the gruesome murder of a three-year-old child in Aligarh. Our thoughts &amp; prayers are with the family during this time of grief. We hope that the perpetrators of this heinous crime are swiftly brought to justice by the Govt.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier in the day, renowned lyricist Javed Akhtar had demanded public hanging for those involved in the brutal murder of a toddler girl<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThis case should be fast tracked in the courts by daily hearings . Any one can guess the inevitable and obvious verdict of any court on this most heinous crime possible . Wish he could be hanged publicly,\u201d Akhtar tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The girl\u2019s body was found on June 2 in a garbage dump. According to the Police, the girl was strangled to death and her eyes were gouged out in a revenge crime over a financial dispute her father had with the accused.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Meanwhile, two persons have been arrested in connection with the crime, said police.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress\u00a0chief\u00a0Rahul\u00a0Gandhi\u00a0and party general secretary Priyanka\u00a0Gandhi\u00a0Vadra on Friday condemned the brutal killing of a\u00a0two-and-a-half-year-old\u00a0girl in Uttar Pradesh&#8217;s\u00a0Aligarh\u00a0district and demanded strict action against the accused. Rahul Gandhi asked the UP police to act swiftly to bring the killers to justice \u201cThe horrific murder of a little girl in Aligarh, UP has shocked and disturbed me. How can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":313089,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2014,2015],"tags":[11459,579,1701,283],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313088"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313090,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313088\/revisions\/313090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/313089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}