An incident of acid being thrown at a girl by a youth from another community in Mujariya area led to communal tension in Budaun on Thursday.
The victim was admitted to a hospital in a serious condition and a heavy police force was deployed in the area to avert any untoward incident.
As per reports, a BA second year girl student from a village in Mujariya accused her neighbour Mahesh Pal aka Bantu of raping, promising to get married. When the girl complained to the police, a piqued Pal attacked her with acid while she was returning home from a market.
Senior Superintendent of Police at Budaun, Sankalp Sharma, said that the victim accused the youth of sexual harassment on the false promise of marriage after which a case of rape was registered at Mujariya police station and investigations were on.
In Ballia, a 13-year-old girl was raped by her 22-year-old teacher in the Bairia area two months ago. An FIR was lodged by the victim’s father on Wednesday. He alleged that his daughter was raped by the teacher as she went to the school to fill up a scholarship form.
The accused was later arrested.
Elsewhere in Lalitpur, a 32-year-old woman and her lover were arrested for killing the woman’s husband, Manoj Nigam (38), and throwing his body into Jakhlaun canal from where it was recovered on Tuesday.
A case was registered at Lalitpur police station on the basis of a complaint filed by Nigam’s family.
During probe, it surfaced that Nigam’s wife, Deepmala, and her lover, Jairam Sen (20), were behind the murder after which both were arrested.