Tension prevailed in Jaunpur after a minor girl ended her life after being fed up of regular harassment and molestation by a youth belonging to the minority community and finding no help from the Jaunpur police despite filing several complaints, on Wednesday.
In her suicide note, the victim requested her father to not let the accused go scot free.
After media focus, the local police have now registered a case on the complaint of the victim’s father but have failed to arrest the accused who is said to be on the lam.
As per reports, the 15-year-old victim hanged herself to death in Kamruddinpur village in Sureri police station area of Jaunpur on Wednesday morning.
When the girl’s mother went to her room at around 8 am on Wednesday, she found the door bolted from inside. When the girl did not open the door after knocking for several minutes, she peeped through the window and was shocked to find her daughter’s body hanging from the roof.
After the incident came to light, a police team rushed to the site and recovered a suicide note from the room where the teenager hanged herself.
Later, villagers gathered in large numbers outside the Sureri police station and demanded stringent action against the accused youth and the lax police personnel who did not extend any help despite several complaints.
In the suicide note written in Hindi, the girl has mentioned that she was forced to take the extreme step due to regular harassment and molestation by a Muslim youth whom she identified as Rustam Ali. She alleged in the note that Ali had been repeatedly molesting and harassing her for the last three months.
The victim also urged her father to avenge her death and get the miscreant punished.
The victim's father later lodged a complaint against Rustam Ali, his uncle Gorakhnath and grandfather Ali Raja.
Security has been beefed up in the village to avert any untoward incident.
Meanwhile two more cases of sexual assault were reported from Etawah and Lalitpur respectively.
In Etawah, an 80-year-old occultist was arrested for trying to rape a minor girl who was suffering from jaundice. The accused, identified as Subhash, attempted to rape the 15-year-old girl on the pretext of treatment at a village in Bakewar police station area on Tuesday.
The victim’s grandmother said that the girl was suffering from jaundice and she was taken for treatment to Subhash. Later, the occultist took the girl inside a room on the pretext of treatment and tried to rape her. As the girl raised an alarm, the miscreant escaped from there.
Later, a complaint was filed at Bakewar police station and the accused was arrested.
Cops sent the girl to a hospital for medical examination and produced the accused in the local court.
In Lalitpur, a 26-year-old married woman was raped in a village in Banpur area on the evening of August 21. The woman was alone in a field when Sahab Singh Lodhi threatened her with a knife and raped her. Her husband had gone to the hospital with his mother when the incident took place.
An FIR in this regard was registered and the accused was arrested.