Keep boys home at night and not girls, says Kirron Kher

NEW DELHI: Amid rapidly changing developments in the Chandigarh

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case, which has taken the nation by storm, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Kirron Kher on Wednesday said same rules and restriction should be imposed on both boys and girls when it comes to safety.

“Every boy should be kept inside the house at night since that is when problems are being created... Why is there danger at night and not during the day? They should tell boys not to go out at night too,” Kher told the media outside Parliament.

Earlier, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Haryana chief Subhash Barala rebuffed claims of pressurising or influencing the police in the case, in which his son Vikas is an accused. “Neither we tried to politicise this issue nor to pressure or influence the Chandigarh Police in the probe. Whatever allegation is being made, we want the police to probe efficiently. I don’t think police are being careless,” Barala told the media.

Barala reiterated his earlier statement and said the complainant,

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Kundu, “is like his daughter”. “As soon as I got to know about the notice issued by the police, I informed Vikas and asked him to come and cooperate in the probe. Earlier also, he cooperated with the police,” he said

Kher’s statement came two days after BJP Chandigarh vice-president Ramveer Bhatti had on Monday blamed Kundu in the case for being out “so late at night”. “Why did she step out at midnight?” he had questioned. The statement had evoked sharp reactions from all corners, with even Kher describing his statement that day as “condemnable”. ANI