This Article is From Jan 14, 2014

Gang-rape victim's father accepts Nitish Kumar's offer of job in Bihar

Gang-rape victim's father accepts Nitish Kumar's offer of job in Bihar

The teenager, who was gang-raped in October, was set on fire allegedly by two men in December.

Patna: Father of the girl, who was gang-raped and allegedly burnt to death in Madhyamgram in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district, on Monday said he will not return to Kolkata and has accepted Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's offer of a job in the police at his native place.

"I have accepted the offer of a job as a police vehicle driver in my Samastipur district. I won't return to Kolkata," the father told reporters after an hour-long meeting with Mr Kumar at his One Anne Marg residence on Monday evening.

The parents and kin of the girl met the Chief Minister on Monday.

The girl's father praised Mr Kumar for being kind towards them at this hour of tragedy.

"We had heard about him (Mr Kumar) and his governance. He is true to what we had heard," the man, who plied a taxi in Kolkata, said expressing gratitude towards Mr Kumar.

Urging the Bihar Chief Minister  for doing his bit for a CBI probe into the incident, he expressed anger against the West Bengal government and said, "We have no faith left in them after the incident."

Earlier, Mr Kumar had told reporters that he has already offered help to the girl's family and also made a rehabilitation offer in Bihar.

Mr Kumar again denied "interference" in offering help to the family hailing from Samastipur and said it was a "humanitarian" gesture.

Keeping in view the distress of the girl's family, Mr Kumar said, a government team led by the IGP (Special Branch) J S Gangwar had gone to West Bengal with a cheque of Rs one lakh and offer of rehabilitation.

The West Bengal government had slammed Mr Kumar's move of sending a team and dubbed it as "interference in another state's law and order situation in an undemocratic manner".

The victim's father met President Pranab Mukherjee in New Delhi recently seeking justice. He had also met West Bengal Governor M K Narayanan.

The victim, who was gang-raped twice in October had died on December 31, following burn injuries.

Her family members had claimed that she was burnt alive by the culprits.

"We have filed a murder case against the two main accused on the basis of the dying statement of the girl in which she had said that she was set on fire on December 23," a senior West Bengal police officer had said.

Altogether, eight persons have been arrested in connection with the incident.

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