NCW Team to Visit Forbesganj

The Union Women and Child Development Minister Krishna Tirath on June 15 announced that the government would soon send a team of National Commission for Women (NCW) to Bihar to probe into the killing of a woman and child in Forbesganj in Araria. When the issue of killing of a pregnant woman and a six-month-old baby was raised with the minister, she said that her ministry would soon send a team of NCW to Forbesganj as picture coming from Bihar was very disturbing.

“First we will see the finding of the NCW and if the report is not satisfactory, we would demand a CBI probe into whole incident,” she said adding that such incidents are condemnable whether it happened in Bihar or some other parts of the country.

On June 3 the Bihar police brutally killed four villagers, including a pregnant woman and a six-month-old baby when they were protesting against establishment of a glucose factory which intended to block their way to their home in Forbesganj area of Araria district, about 350 km from Patna.