Whether it’s about slamming Shahid Afridi for his comment on Kashmir or having an opinion about any other national issue, cricketer Gautam Gambhir is one of the most candid cricketers who speaks his mind fearlessly. This time, the cricketer has posted a couple of tweets about the two rape case incidents – Kathua and Unnao.

He took to Twitter and wrote, “Indian consciousness was raped in Unnao and then in Kathua. It’s now being murdered in corridors of our stinking systems. Come on ‘Mr System’, show us if you have the balls to punish the perpetrators, I challenge you. #KathuaMurderCase #UnnaoRapeCase.”

“Shame on those, especially the lawyers, who are challenging and obstructing Deepika Singh Rajawat, the counsel of our victimised daughter from Kathua. बेटी बचाओ से अब क्या अब हम बलात्कारी बचाओ हो गए हैं? #kathuaHorror,” read the second tweet.

Several other celebrities like Sonam Kapoor, Javed Akhtar, Farhan Akhtar, Nimrat Kaur and a few others have not only condemned the rape cases but also have called for justice. In Kathua, an eight-year-old girl was kidnapped from Rasana village, Jammu on January 10. According to investigations, she was drugged and held captive for a week before being murdered. The eight-year-old was gang-raped thrice inside the temple basement after the mastermind had “performed rituals" reports Indian Express.

She was confined and forcefully fed sedatives, raped repeatedly then strangled and hit on the head twice with a stone — “in order to make sure” she was dead. But not before another accused, a police personnel, asked the others to “wait because he wanted to rape” her one last time. The case in Unnao, Uttar Pradesh involved a BJP legislator and a few other for gang raping an 18-year-old woman.

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