AAP, Congress attack BJP, Delhi Police over ‘deteriorating’ law and order situation

Both the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) connected Thursday (May 15, 2026) attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Delhi Police implicit the alleged rape of a pistillate successful a autobus successful the metropolis and “deteriorating” instrumentality and bid situation.

AAP main Arvind Kejriwal said successful a station connected X, “Once again, a gangrape has taken spot successful a moving autobus successful Delhi. We learnt thing from Nirbhaya. This incidental is simply a blot connected the full society.” 

Delhi recorded the highest fig of crimes against women among the Metro cities successful 2024, according to the latest Crime successful India study released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) past week.

AAP Delhi president Saurabh Bharadwaj said, “It is highly shameful that the Nirbhaya incident has been repeated successful Delhi. A 30 twelvemonth aged pistillate was abducted astatine nighttime from a autobus halt connected the pretext of asking for the time, aft which respective men gangraped her wrong a moving autobus for astir 2 hours. The autobus kept roaming for astir 7 kilometres successful Delhi’s Rani Bagh area.”

Mr. Bharadwaj questioned the instrumentality and bid concern and underlined that Rani Bagh is not immoderate distant area, but is successful cardinal Delhi. “Even aft this, the quality was hidden for 2 days. We privation to inquire the Commissioner wherefore this incidental was hidden and what is being done to guarantee that specified an incidental ne'er happens again,” helium said.

Mr. Bharadwaj said that the operator and conductor gangraped the pistillate wrong the moving bus. “Why did the Delhi Police stock this accusation with the media truthful late? What was the crushed down this delay? Did the constabulary privation to suppress the rape incident?” helium asked.

Delhi Congress main Devender Yadav said that incidental exposed the deteriorating instrumentality and bid successful the Capital and appealed to the Delhi Government to springiness due compensation to the woman. 

“This lawsuit should beryllium tried successful the accelerated way tribunal truthful that justness is delivered to the unfortunate and arsenic accelerated arsenic possible,” Mr. Yadav said. 

“Chief Minister Rekha Gupta has wholly failed to guarantee the information and information of women successful the Capital arsenic women cannot task retired without facing immoderate benignant of harassment connected the streets. With a triple motor BJP Government successful Delhi, with the Union Home Ministry controlling Delhi Police, instrumentality and bid has go the biggest casualty successful the city,” Mr. Yadav said.

He added that adjacent aft 14 years, the Nirbhaya lawsuit has not taught immoderate acquisition to the constabulary who proceed to instrumentality women’s information and information for granted.

The NCRB 2024 study connected transgression against women shows that determination were 109 cases of dowry deaths, 1058 cases of rape, 4646 cases of home violence, 3974 cases of kidnapping and 316 cases of intersexual assault.