A day after Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav assured of recommending a probe by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), if the family members wanted to get the investigation transfer, state government reportedly also announced to give accommodation to the rape victim’s family in Gautam Buddh Nagar along with Rs 3 lakh to each victim.
Chief Minister would also meet the family either in Noida or Shahjahenpur or even in lucknow as the family was now ready to meet Akhilesh Yadav.
Reports said that finding that the victim family feared of going back to their residences due to social stigma, the government decided to give two flats to the family members in Noida. The family will be also given Rs 3 lakh each. Government had already provided security cover to the family besides assuring them all kind of help which could helped them to recover from the traumatic incident which had rocked the state.
The IG (Meerut) Zone, Sujeet Pandey, who was now heading the probing team is yet to make any further breakthrough regarding arrest of the culprits including the gang leader Saleem Bawariya. Teams were also trailing behind to get some clue regarding whereabouts of the remaining criminals. It may be mentioned that three of the criminals were already arrested in the case and lodged in jail.
Meanwhile rapes cases and reports of excesses on members of fairer sex continued to pour in. In Ballia, a 16-year-old dalit girl was raped by two men and her video clip posted online after she refused to have physical relations with friends of the accused, prompting police to file an FIR after the victim narrated her ordeal. The minor was raped by her neighbour Krishna Yadav and
another accused in September last year. The accused was blackmailing the girl on the basis of a video clip and raping her since past nine months, said Superintendent of Police (SP)in Balia, Manoj Kumar Jha. Recently, the accused started pressurising the girl to have physical relations with some of his friends and on her refusal, uploaded the clipping online three days ago, said
Jha, who was approached by the girl to lodge a case only on Thursday evening.
On SP's intervention, an FIR was lodged against Yadav at Ballia city kotwali and further investigations in the case are underway.
In another case reported from Chanduli, a 17-year-old girl hailing from Syedraza locality, had went to attend call of nature on last Tuesday evening when Ravindra, a resident of Sugai hamlet nabbed her and took her to secluded place when he raped her. In another case reported from Kushinagar, a 15-year-old girl hailing from Bagkhas hamlet of Tariasujan, has also went to call of nature on July 27 last when she was raped by Sikender, Chamman, Islam and four other unknown accused. In Philibhit, five minor girls hailing from Sahagawa locality of Jahanbad area claimed that they were going to attend classes when Imran, Sageer, Mohamed Yusuf, and some of their unknown associates intercepted them and sexually abused them on Thursday. They set them freed after giving them life threats if they would report the matter. A case was registered and the matter was handed over for investigation to circle level officer.
In Etah, three teenage girls were allegedly kidnapped in separate incidents. A 15-year-old girl was abducted from Badampur village on July 14 last. The family of the girl lodged an FIR only on Thursday evening against Ajay and two others of the village for allegedly kidnapping her. In second incident, an FIR has been registered against Satish and five others for kidnapping a 14-year-old girl from
her house in Marhala village also on July 16 last. In third case of kidnapping, a 16-year-old was abducted from Pipahara village on July 23. After over a fortnight of delay, the family members of the girl have filed a complaint against one Yogendra of their village and five others on Thursday. Police have initiated a probe in the matter and searches are underway to find the girls and arrest the accused.