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The insensitivity of UP Police in acting against sexual predators once again came to the fore when fed up with being harassed and the police looking the other way, a high school student ended her life in Barabanki.
The unabashed police have now registered a case and claimed to have launched a hunt to arrest the teasers.
As per reports, a girl of Kanshiram Colony in Kamriyabagh area of Barabanki was constantly being harassed by Monu of Abhaynagar, Sonu and Rakesh of Ghantaghar. Monu and his friends used to come to a kin living next door to the girl’s house.
After she narrated her ordeal, the girl’s father complained to the Kotwali police and as has become usual with the police, no action was taken.
Upon learning about the complaint with the police, the miscreants intercepted the girl and threatened her to accept their friendship or be ready to face the music. Upset with this, the girl left her home and started living at her maternal uncle’s home.
Despite this, the harassers continued to make advances after which she jumped from the fourth floor of an apartment to end her life on Tuesday. She was rushed to Trauma Centre of KGMU, in Lucknow but was pronounced dead upon arrival. Her father lodged a case naming the miscreants after which a so called hunt was launched.
Meanwhile in Aligarh, a doctor was accused of molesting a female coronavirus positive patient admitted in a hospital.
A 28-year-old daughter of a grocery shop owner in Aurangabad area of Chhavni in Aligarh, was found positive during testing for coronavirus. An employee of a Ghaziabad-based private firm, the patient was admitted to Level-2 Covid facility at Pandit Deen Dayal Hospital last Sunday.
On Tuesday night, after being examined by the a doctor, the patient alleged that during his visit, the doctor touched her private parts. After she told her parents about this, they rushed to the hospital and called the police. Ironically, the police tried to ‘resolve’ the issue through a ‘dialogue’. But after the victim’s parents informed the district magistrate, a team was set up to probe the incident and the accused was detained till investigation.
On the direction of the district magistrate, Chief Medical Officer Dr BPS Kalyani, Circle Officer Anil Samaniya, and ACM (II) Ranjeet Singh reached hospital on Wednesday morning to probe the allegation and recorded the statements of all the staff present on duty and also of some patients. They also recorded the victim’s statement.
A report will now be handed over to the district magistrate after which necessary action would be initiated.
Meanwhile in Bareilly, an accused died after jumping from terrace to flee from police custody on Tuesday night.
The police arrested 15 persons in connection with on-line forgery from Dhatiya village earlier in the evening. As the team was leaving the place, one of the accused tried to flee and fell from the terrace and died. The cops claimed that the victim was not arrested but to evade action, he jumped and died.
The accused used to open bank accounts in fake names and with the help of some Nigerian aides, duped gullible people by asking them to deposit cash in the accounts offering them good deals.