Expressing serious concern over the ‘spate of crimes against women’ in the State, Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) president Sake Sailajanath on Sunday said the State had shun the responsibility of ensuring safety of women.
Referring to the gang-rape of a pregnant woman at the Repalle railway station in Guntur district, Mr. Sailajanath said that such heinous crimes at public places put a ‘serious question on the credibility of the Police Department’.