Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday slammed PM Narendra Modi for his silence on the gangrape of a 19-year-old board exam topper in Haryana. He said that Modi's silence was "unacceptable" and that it was shameful on the part of the government to leave the country's women unprotected and allow rapists to walk free.

He also said the country's head hung in shame as another of its daughters was brutally gang-raped.