PM Silences Critics On Rape Cases, 2 Ministers Quit Soon After: 10 Facts

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
cap the spiralling public anger over the Kathua and Unnao rape cases, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said such incidents could not be
part of any civilised society and promised to make sure that the culprits do not get away
"As a country, as a society we all are ashamed of it (rapes)," PM Modi said of the crimes that have jolted the country and brought the BJP's
alliance with Mehbooba Mufti's PDP close to breaking point
Ms Mufti has been angry with BJP leaders for defending the men arrested for the rape and murder of the eight-year-old girl in Kathua
Minutes after PM Modi's statement, two ministers, seen as the face of the effort to communalise the arrests, were forced to quit from the
Mehbooba Mufti cabinet.