Crimes against women will not go unpunished, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday in comments that are being seen as his first public response to the gangrape and murder of an eight-year-old child in Jammu and Kasmhir’s Kathua, and a teenager’s allegation that a lawmaker of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had raped her in Uttar Pardesh’s Unnao. Stating that Indians are ashamed of such incidents, he said they are an insult to sacrifices of Army jawans who have laid down their lives for the country.