New Delhi:
Under attack over the murder of a teenager in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri district, Chief Minister Mayawati today slammed the Centre saying it is publicising the case.
Addressing a press conference today, Mayawati also said she is not opposed to a CBI probe into the murder case of 14-year-old Sonam, who was found hanging inside the compound of a police station, if the family wants so.
The Chief Minister also slammed the right groups who had voiced concern over the murder of the girl and sent a fact-finding team to Lakhimpur Kheri.
She had yesterday said that National Commission for Women and National Human Rights Commission give "undue importance to the smallest" of happenings in Uttar Pradesh, they "remain silent" on incidents and law and order situation in Congress-ruled states.
The teenager's illiterate mother had said she was coerced, threatened, offered bribe to keep quiet. She found her missing 14-year-old daughter Sonam's body tied to a tree at an Uttar Pradesh police station and she has refused to accept two autopsy reports that say there was no rape. The vaginal swab of the murdered teen has been sent for further tests.
Four cops have been arrested on charges of tampering with evidence, the Lakhimpur Kheri Superintendent of Police, DK Rai, has been transferred. Three doctors who conducted the first autopsy have been suspended.
When the first post mortem threw no light on the girl's death except to say that she had committed suicide, the UP government, under huge pressure, intervened and a second autopsy was ordered and conducted on Monday. It confirmed murder, though not rape. She was strangled and died of asyphxia, the report said.