“Why is Badlapur school protected by BJP-Mindhe regime”: Aaditya Thackeray

New Delhi [India], September 24 (ANI): Shiv Sena UBT leader Aaditya Thackeray on Tuesday asked several questions regarding the Badlapur sexual assault case.

Taking to micro-blogging platform X, Aaditya Thackeray wrote in a post and asked questions about where were the trustees of the Badlapur school and why they were being protected by the BJP-Mindhe regime.

Thackeray’s post read “The real question is: 1) Where are the trustees of the Badlapur school? Why are they being protected by the BJP-Mindhe regime? 2) What about Mindhe’s local chap, Waman Mhatre, who asked a journalist why she was questioning the incident as if she had been raped. Why is he being protected? 3) Will the cases against the citizens who protested be taken back? They were treated like gangsters. They were simply protesting against the refusal of the police to file a complaint from the victim for a week.

“Who was the police station protecting? It is understood that the trustees of the school have an affiliation with the BJP. And they are being protected. Is it true? Will the regime answer?” he added.

Earlier on Monday, opposition, Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) had slammed the Eknath Shinde led Maharashtra government and criticised the Mahayuti, terming the killing as a breakdown of law and raising questions over the justice system in the state.

NCP MP Supriya Sule slammed the Mahayuti government and said, “The Mahayuti government’s approach to the Badlapur sexual assault case of two minor girls is shocking! Delay in the filing of the FIR first, and now the prime accused is killed in custody! This is an absolute breakdown of law enforcement and the justice system. This is inexcusable. It deprives the people of Maharashtra of justice.”

Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi also reacted to the same and dubbed it “incompetence” of the Mahayuti government, adding the co-accused in the case are on the run and said that the entire altercation is a “story written by the state government.”

The BJP countered the INDIA bloc by alleging that the alliance had always been anti-women and in favour of alleged rapists.

“Traitors and anti-national elements will naturally find it difficult to support the safety of our nation’s law enforcement agencies. Congress has revealed its true colors–first by defending Pakistan’s role in 26/11 and now by attacking the police. INDI alliance is a Balatkari and Atanki Bachao Jamaat,” BJP Spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla said in a post on X.