Close on heels of the gangrape of a woman and her minor daughter at a Bulundshahr highway and that of a school teacher in Bareilly, half a dozen more cases were reported across the State. These included the gangrape of two sisters in Kanpur.
In Kanpur, two sisters aged between 14 and 19 year of Bilhaur locality were kidnapped while they on way to visit a nearby Dargah last Thursday. The accused identified as Ashok Verma, Vimlesh Mishra aka Kallu and Rohit aka Bhole of Saibudu area, kidnapped the sisters in a car before taking turns with them. They held the girls captive for two days before dumping them at a secluded place on Saturday night.
Initially, the victims’ father did not report the crime fearing threat to his daughters’s lives. After they were recovered, he admitted the younger one to a hospital and informed senior police officers after which a case was registered on Tuesday night. The police formed teams and were making efforts to nab the culprits.
Meanwhile in Rampur, a 19-year-old girl from Milik Khanam, alleged that Shakeel and his kin kidnapped her on Monday evening while she was going to a market to make some purchases.
She claimed that the accused took her to a hotel where she was gangraped and the miscreants set her free on Tuesday. A case was registered and investigations are on.
In yet another case of gang rape at Gautam Budh Nagar (Noida), a 19-year-old girl was strolling in front of her house on Tuesday evening when some youths in a Indica car (Dl22l-6626) kidnapped her. The miscreants later identified as Kalu, Bunty Khatik, Yunus of Shastri Nagar (Delhi) and Irfan of Nazabgarh (Delhi) took her to a secluded place near Pari Chowk area and gang raped her before setting her free. A case was registered in this regard and efforts were undereway to nab them.
In Bijnore, a 17-year-old girl was gang raped about a week back but the local Station Officer concealed the matter. When the matter came to the knowledge of SP Bijnore, the SO was suspended and the accused were arrested .
The young girl residing in Chak Mehmuspur Sani in Syohara locality was kidnapped by two youths identified as Zunaid and Tanveer, who took her to their house and raped her. The girl told her father about her ordeal after which he lodged a report with the local police who concealed the crime. On Wednesday, the SP initiated action against the ererant cops and a departmental enquiry has also been ordered.
In Sambhal, a 18-year-old girl from Dhanri area was reportedly dragged by a local identified as Fateh Singh to nearby fields and raped on Tuesday.
In a similar incident in Pratapgarh, a 16-year-old girl of Kanhai locality, was intercepted by a local identified as Raj Kumar Verma on Tuesday evening and raped at a secluded place. A case was registered but the accused was yet to be arrested.
Meanwhile in Bareilly, around 50 girl students from an inter college complained to the police about rampant eve-teasing by local youths and said that they would not go to the college unless proper security arrangements are made for them.
The girls and their parents belonging to Dhaneli and Aurangabad villages met police officials and said that local youths made obscene comments and obstruct their movement on the road to Dunka Inter College. On their collective complaint, an FIR was filed and two youths were arrested while a hunt is underway for others.
DIG Bareily Ashutosh Kumar said afterthe complaint, patrolling on the stretch has been heighthened and police personnel in civvies havealso been deployed. Principal of the college, Vinod Kumar, has also written to SSP Bareily and other senior officials following the girls' complaint.
On Wednesday, hundreds of local residents blocked the road in front of CB Ganj police station in Bareilly, and staged a protest demanding the arrest of culprits involved in the gangrape of a 19-year-old school teacher in Khadua road on Tuesday. They also demanded adequate security for the members of the fairer sex. The protest ended on assurance of local police.