Barasat rape victim's family meets President, presses for CBI probe

New Delhi, Jul 15 (PTI): Family members of a girl who was gangraped and murdered in Barasat last month, met President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday and demanded that the Central Bureau of Investigation take over the probe from the state police. "We have no faith in the CID investigation...Only one demand we made in front of the President that he order a CBI enquiry and that justice should be very fast in a fast track court," one of the family members told reporters here after the meeting. The members also asked the President to provide security for the women in the village. The President gave us a patient hearing and assured us that he will convey the demand to the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Minister of State for Personnel as he cannot order the CBI enquiry, he said. "He said he will try his level best to get justice for the family. He assured us that justice will not be denied to us," the victim's kin said. The girl, a college student, was gangraped and murdered in Barasat under North 24-Parganas district of West Bengal on June 7. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who had gone there on June 17 to meet the family of the victim, had to face angry women of Kamduni village in Barasat. Mamata had said that her government would plead for death sentence for the culprits.