Monday saw protests outside Home Minister Rajnath Singh’s house as well as in the Lok Sabha, with Opposition members seeking a discussion on the alleged incident of rape of a 26-year-old girl inside a cab hired by her from San Francisco-headquartered Uber taxi service on Friday night.

After Question Hour, the Home Minister gave a statement in the House on the “extremely unfortunate incident of sexual assault” in Delhi. “The Government condemns this dastardly act,” he said, adding that ‘all steps are being taken to bring to book the offender.”

He said that a case was registered at the Sarai Rohilla police station, the woman was sent for medical examination and was also counselled by an NGO assigned by the Delhi Commission for Women.

Singh said the vehicle in which the ‘sexual assault’ took place was registered with Uber cab service. “The vehicle will be subjected to thorough forensic examination,” he added.

Meanwhile, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Congress-backed NSUI students held a protest against the Government’s “failure” to check such incidents and were stopped and detained by police.

“It has been six months since this Government came to power but nothing has changed. They used to blame the Centre when UPA was in power and they are now themselves skirting responsibility,” said a protester.

“AAP will raise the Uber rape issue in Parliament also,” tweeted AAP leader Ashutosh.

In a statement, AAP said after the horrific Nirbhaya incident last December, “the latest incident raises serious questions about the inefficiency of Delhi Police, particularly the traffic police and the wrong priorities of the unresponsive Delhi administration,”

“The Government which kept on talking about its concern on women issues during its poll campaign is sitting silent over such case. We demand stringent punishment against the rapist,” Amrish Ranjan Pandey, national spokesperson, NSUI said.

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