India: Shiv Sena (UBT) targets PM Modi, Shah over NCRB data on Gujarat's 'missing' women, shows 'dark side' of state

Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray

Mumbai, May 9 (PTI) The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT) on Tuesday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah while referring to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data as per which nearly 40,000 women went missing in Gujarat in five years.

This has brought to light the "dark side" of the state, an editorial in the Shiv Sena (UBT) mouthpiece Saamana said.

The Marathi daily also attacked the Eknath Shinde-Devendra Fadnavis government in Maharashtra over the disappearance several women in the state and said the police, that were being used to settle political scores, should rather be used to trace the missing women.