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Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray condemns Sakinaka rape-murder case; promises fast-track trial

Updated on: 11 September,2021 12:00 AM IST  |  Mumbai
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The chief minister said he has discussed the case with state Home Minister Dilip Walse Patil and Mumbai Police Commissioner Hemant Nagrale

Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray condemns Sakinaka rape-murder case; promises fast-track trial

Uddhav Thackeray. File pic

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday termed the rape and murder of a woman in Mumbai's Sakinaka as a "blot on humanity", and promised a fast-track trial in the case.


He asserted that the perpetrator would be punished severely.


"The trial in the case will be done on a fast track and the victim, who succumbed to injuries today, will get justice," Thackeray said in a statement.


The chief minister said he has discussed the case with state Home Minister Dilip Walse Patil and Mumbai Police Commissioner Hemant Nagrale.

Also read: Mumbai: 30-year-old Sakinaka rape victim dies undergoing treatment

"I have directed the authorities to expedite the investigation into the case," he said.

The woman, 34, died in a civic-run hospital in Mumbai the wee hours of Saturday a day after she was raped and brutalised with an iron rod in a stationary vehicle parked by the roadside at Sakinaka. A 45-year-old man has been arrested in this connection, police have said.

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