A 16-year-old girl was battling for her life after her father tried to kill her after pouring acid over her body. The sensational incident was reported from Bijnore district after the girl was found lying in a secluded place and rushed to district hospital. After regaining conscious for some time, she revealed to the police that how her own father turned `beast’ and tried to kill her. A case has been registered and efforts were now made to arrest the accused along with two of his unknown accomplices who all were absconding.
Reports said that Fatima (16) (name change), a native of Swar locality of Rampur was in love with her neighbour to which her family was opposed. As Fatima refused to go with her parents wishes, so they decided to eliminate her. However, her maternal uncle living in Rampur took her to his native village in Nazirabad at Bijnore to save her life. According to local police, on Sunday night, Fatima’s father reached his in-laws house at Bijnore and claimed that he wanted to settle marriage of his daughter so he was taking her back to Rampur. However, he not reached Rampur and went missing.
The cops said that on Monday morning, they found a girl lying in critical state so they immediately rushed her to District Hospital. After regaining conscious for some time, the victim told that on way to her home, her father gave her some sedative and tried to strangulate her. later she fainted. The cops said that the accused who was also accompanied by two his friends probably took the girl as `dead’ so he dumped the body and threw acid all over just to conceal her identity. Further investigations are on in the matter.
Two more girls fell victim of acid attack in Deoria while charred body of an unknown girl was recovered in Moradabad. According to reports from Deoria, Seema and her friend Kunti (both name changed), both natives of Bahurawa in Khampar, were going to attend their classes at Sarvodya Inter College at Bhakhar Bazar, when three youths, who were following them for last few days and had also teased them, threw acid over them just after the duo threatened to lodge a case against them if they not stopped following them. The victims were rushed to hospital by some locals while the family members lodged a case against the accused.
In Moradabad, local police found that body of an unknown girl was burning in a secluded place at Kukurjhandi area under Bhagatpur police station on Monday morning. The cops sent the charred body for post-mortem examination. They claimed that it seems that the girl was in early 20s and was killed somewhere else and brought to the place just to burn the body and conceal her identity. Efforts were now on to maintain identity of the victim.
In a separate incident, a 7-year-old girl was allegedly raped and murdered by a cobbler when she had gone to mend her school shoes in Muzaffarnagar. Her body was found on Sunday evening. The cobbler, Sant Kumar, was booked under relevant sections of IPC and POCSO Act. He was later arrested and produced before a court after which he was went on 14-days judicial remand.
Meanwhile reports from Aligarh confirmed that days after setting herself
ablaze after allegedly failing to exchange old notes, a 45-year-old daily wage labourer died at a hospital in New Delhi.Razia passed away on Sunday morning. Her family told media persons that she immolated herself on the evening of November 20 after “failing to exchange six notes of Rs 500 despite attempting to do so at different branches of banks in the old city area for five days”. Razia was a resident of Shahjamal locality in Delhi Gate area in Aligarh.
Angered by her death, locals in the area also protested. Senior district officials and police personnel were present at her funeral that took place after the officials and city chief of Samajwadi Party Baba Farid assured the protestors that they would take up the matter with the state government, on Monday morning. On the night of November 20 when Razia was rushed to the district hospital in a critical condition she told media persons that she took the extreme “out of total helplessness as her four children had not eaten any thing for three days”.