Three members of a family committed suicide by jumping in the Ganga at Narora last night when loan sharks were demanding Rs 800 as interest per day from the family after they took a loan of Rs 15,000 in Buland sahar district. Police sources here today said that the family of four of Dorinagar, Aligarh, comprising Dharmendra Sharma(47), his wife Pushpa and two teenage daughters Tusi(17) and Bhavna(14) jumped in the Ganga at Bansighat last night at around 2130.
However, the locals saved Pushpa but bodies of remaining three were recovered this morning. Police said an FIR has been registered against loan sharks Pushpendra Thakur and Jugnu Baniya for harassing the family and forcing them to commit suicide. These two were forcing the family to pay Rs 800 per day interest against a loan of Rs 15,000.
Efforts were on to arrest both the culprits.
A local court here has issued non-bailable warrant (NBW) against 15 people, including the Kasganj district president of Samajwadi Party Vikram Yadav in connection with the gangrape of a Muslim woman on July 8, 2006. Special court (Dacoity infested area) issued the non- bailable warrant against the 15 Samajwadi Party activists including Vikram on Friday.
According to police sources, Virkam Yadav and his supporters attacked the victim's house at Garhinather village in Dolna police station area in erstwhile Etah district on July 8, 2006, when Mulayam Singh Yadav was the chief minister of the state. The SP men beat up the husband of the woman and three others -- Ram Pratap, Himmat Singh and Subhash – on Vikram's direction and gang raped the woman. later, when the victim approached the police to lodge a complaint, everybody including the SSP of the district, refused to entertain them. But on the directives of the court, an FIR was registered on September 6, 2006 against 15 people including Vikram Yadav. When the SP government again came to power in 2012, Vikram Yadav tried to close the FIR which was challenged by the victims, labourers by profession. In between, the SP leaders lodged three fake cases against the victim's husband including rape charges.
Now the court has issued NBW but police was forcing the victims for a compromise with the accused SP leader, the victim told mediapersons. 'They have even threatened us of dire consequences and even lured us with money to close the case,' the victim alleged.