MUMBAI: Shiv Sena Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray (UBT) on Saturday launched a scathing attack on the BJP-led MahaYuti government over the alleged sexual abuse of a four-year-old girl by a school bus driver in Badlapur, near Mumbai, calling it a grave failure of both the school administration and the state machinery to protect children.
In an editorial published in the party mouthpiece Saamana, the Thackeray camp criticised the state leadership, remarking that while senior officials, including Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, are in Switzerland seeking foreign investment, criminals appear emboldened and law and order have deteriorated in Maharashtra.
The editorial alleged that the incident took place at a private school in Badlapur and that when the traumatised parents informed the school principal, the management attempted to suppress the matter instead of taking immediate action. It was only after the parents approached the police that an FIR was registered and the accused driver arrested.