NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan today tendered an unconditional apology for calling the Bulandshahr gang-rape incident “a political conspiracy”. The Supreme Court accepted the apology.
Last week, the court rejected an ‘apology tendered by the Uttar Pradeshminister because it felt it “was not an unconditional apology”.
Khan, who had infamously said the Bulandshahr gang-rape in July was a conspiracy to malign Uttar Pradesh’s SP government, then said he would use the word “remorse” in a fresh affidavit that the top court demanded.
The Supreme Court bench of Justices Dipak Misra and Amitava Roy said at last month’s hearing that the dignity of women is “uncompromisable and told the Uttar Pradesh government to ensure that the minor survivor of the gang-rape is admitted in a central school of her father’s choice. It also referred to a saying – “words once spoken cannot be recalled.”
Bureau Report
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