Want to see Gayatri Prajapati behind bars: Minor victim

The 16-year-old girl, who was allegedly sexually assaulted and her mother repeatedly gang-raped by UP Minister Gayatri Prajapati and his aides, has been left scarred and lives in constant fear for life.

Eight months after the incident, the teenager is still to overcome the trauma and gets panic attacks, often waking up in the middle of night and trying to run away from her ward at the AIIMS in fits of frenzy.

The nightmare is not over for her yet as she fears that Prajapati’s men would come looking for her. She now anxiously wants to see the Minister behind bars and justice done to herself and her mother.

“I want to see Prajapati and his men who attempted to rape me behind the bars. He has ruined our lives permanently. We had to leave our hearth and home to save our lives,” she told PTI.

Her mother, who claimed to have been repeatedly gang-raped over two years on the promise of a position in the State’s ruling Samajwadi Party and sand mining contracts, moved the Supreme Court, which ordered registration of an FIR against the Minister and his accomplices in the crime on February 18.

As the UP Police hunts for them, the girl is struggling to come to terms with what happened to her and her mother. She has, however, not given up hope and wants to appear for her class X examination next year.