The crime against fairer sex again witnessed a spurt, when a girl was raped and murdered in Fatehpur, a Dalit woman was gangraped and looted in Bareilly, another one met similar fate in Jalaun, besides about half a dozen more cases reported from other districts in Uttar Pradesh.
In Fatehpur, a 17-year-old girl hailing from Mewatganj area of Jafarganj, went to collect fodder for her cattle on Wednesday evening but did not return home. Her family members launched a search for her and on Thursday, they found her body hanging from a tree. The circumstantial evidences suggested that she was raped and later murdered by some unknown person who hanged her body to make it a case of suicide. local police registered a case in this regard and efforts were made to nab the accused.
A 40-year-old Dalit woman was allegedly gangraped by 10 people who committed the crime after assaulting and overpowering her husband and son in the Cantonment area on Bareilly on Wednesday night.