Loopholes Led To Jubilee Hills Rape Accused Getting Bail: KTR

Hitting back at the trollers who have been constantlly lampooning the accused in the Jubilee Hills minor girl gang-rape case getting bail, Minister for IT and Industries K T Rama Rao said that the loopholes in the Juvenile Justice Act, the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) had resulted in the alleged rapists getting bail.

"That's the reason I am demanding that these acts be amended so that no rapist gets bail, and when convicted remains in jail till death. Life imprisonment in the truest sense," KTR said in a tweet.

Hitting out at the allegations of inaction by the Telangana government in the case, where one of the prime accused was an MIM MLA's son, KTR said that the rapists were arrested swiftly and jailed.

"To the silly trolls who indulge in whataboutery & question what the Telangana government did in a recent rape case in Hyderabad: the rapists were arrested swiftly and sent to jail. The High Court granted them bail after 45 days. We will fight on till these rapists get punished as per the law," he said in another tweet.

The minister also slammed the Centre over the release of the 11 men who were sentenced to life in the Bilkis Bano gang rape case, and asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to intervene and rescind the Gujarat government's decision to release the convicts.

He also said that this decision by a BJP government would not be forgotten.

Taking a dig at the BJP, KTR said that some political parties promised development, security and welfare sops to win elections, but were now releasing rapists and killers of pregnant women and children.

"Karma is a boomerang. #BilkisBano (sic)," he tweeted.