A video which went viral on social media exposed how the criminals in the state had no fear for law enforcing agencies. About half a dozen youths were seen dragging a woman into a forest and trying to outrage her modesty despite of her repeated pleads. Interestingly, only after the video was uploaded on social media on Thursday, the local police claimed to have taken cognizance and shown two of the accused arrested. To avoid embarrassment, the cops also dumped that the video was over two months old and that the victim not contacted them.
Sources said that a video pointed that some accused were forcibly dragging the woman into a forest as she pleads for mercy with folded hands. They then molested her and outraged her modesty. After the video went viral, the cops registered a case against eight of the accused. later investigation revealed that all the men seen in the video belong to the Baba Kheda area in the district, Superintendent of Police in Unnao Harish Kumar revealed. He said that they managed to nab two of the accused in connection with the incident. One of the men was nabbed on July 4 in connection with a theft case, the SP said. Efforts were on to nab the other accused, the SP added.
ADG (law and order) Anand Kumar also told reporters here on Friday afternoon that six boys were involved in the incident that happened about two-and-a-half month back as per the statement of one of the accused Rahul. He said the Unnao police has arrested two boys so far, including Akash, who is already in jail in the theft case. The ADG said an FIR under Section 147,354(A), 504,506 of the IPC and Section 66 of the IT Act has been registered at Gangaghat police station against Vipin, Pawan, Ritwik,, Akash, Vinod and Rahul. In the same district, a 16-year-old girl had in April accused a BJP lawmaker of raping her and attempted suicide outside Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s home in lucknow.
Meanwhile in a separate matter reported from Muzaffarnagar, a woman was allegedly tied from a tree and beaten up on the orders of a panchayat in a village over an “illicit relationship” with her brother-in-law’s son, police disclosed on Friday. The incident happened in Toda village under Ratenpuri police station in the district on Thursday evening and came to light after a purported video of the “punishment” went viral on the social media, Circle Officer Hariram Yadav said. A case has been registered against eight people and three accused were arrested, he said, adding the woman has been sent for medical examination.
According to a complaint lodged by the victim’s husband, the woman was tied from a tree and beaten over her alleged relationship with his brother’s son, police said. The panchayat was called on the allegations levelled by the in-laws of his brother’s son, whose wife had left him and leaving with her parents due to the alleged relationship.