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Muzaffarnagar tense after rape, conversion cases

PNS

Two separate incidents led to fresh communal tension in Muzaffarnagar when a woman lodged a case against a doctor and his family members alleging that she was held captive by the accused, where she was sexually assaulted, forced to change her religion and tortured. In another case, a minor girl was raped by three accused belonging to minority community just to avenge a case of another rape. In the first case lodged with the Meerapur police station in Muzaffarnagar, Sunita (name changed), a resident of Mohalla Dhakshini Mustark under Purkazi locality, alleged that she was kidnapped by Dr Abdul Kalam, a resident of Babma Roam in Meerapur. She claimed that the accused Kalam, not only raped her but also done unnatural sex. She alleged that the accused also recorded the incident and threatened to upload and defame it if she would report the matter, as recorded before a magistrate on Tuesday. local police had so far arrested the accused doctor and claimed to be making further investigation in this regard. In another bizarre case, three accused alleged to have kidnapped and gang-raped a 16-year-old girl just to avenge a sexual assault case. The sensational incident was reported from Mirza Tilla jungles under Kakrauli police station in Muzaffarnagar. The brother of the above minor girl who was now gang raped, has been earlier accused of raping a girl of another community on August 25 last.