With state capital already rocked with a sensational gang rape and murder of a woman in Mohanlalganj on Thursday, the law and order seems to have further deteriorated as a disabled woman was reportedly raped and murdered in Ferojabad, another minor girl was sexually assaulted before being killed in Varanasi, while about half a dozen more cases of attack on members of fairer sex have been reported from separate parts of the State.
In Ferojabad, body of a disabled woman was recovered from a nullah in Rasoolpur area on Thursday evening. The identity of the victim has been later maintained as Jyoti (name changed), by her husband who were living in a rented house in the same area. She hails from Patna. The local residents claimed that she was sexually assaulted before murdered by the accused. However, the local police also suspected the hands of husband and one of his friend, Mukesh Banjara, behind the crime. Further investigations are on in the matter.
In Varanasi, body of a 16-year-old girl hailing from Karoma hamlet of Basgaon has been recovered from the fields on Friday morning. Investigations later showed that one lakshman Pal, hailing from the same locality was trailing behind the girl for last few days and wanted to develop relations with her but when she refused, he raped and killed her on Friday morning. Efforts were on to nab the accused who was absconding from the house.
In Kushinagar, a 8-year-old girl hailing from Chapra locality of Khadda, was sleeping at the terrace of the house. In the night when she went out to attend the call of nature, one Sanjay Yadav (35), hailing from the same locality held her and pulled her in a secluded place and raped her. When she returned home, she disclosed the incident to her parents who rushed her to hospital after finding her clothes soaked with blood. A case has been registered and the accused was arrested.
In a separate incident, a 19-yar-old girl hailing from Piperkheda in Gangaghat area of Unnao, had went to meet her boy friend Rohit, a resident of Sarsaiya in Gangaghat, on Thursday evening. Tragedy occurred when Rohit and two of his friends, whom the victim identified as Mohit and Jeewan, had held her and took her to a local primary school. They later gang raped her and set her free after threatening her with dire consequences if she would reveal the incident to anyone. All the three accused were arrested in the case. A 30-year-old woman was allegedly gangraped by a lawyer and a constable in police lines at Bhadohi on Thursday. The victim, wife of a government employee, was allegedly raped by lawyer Jai Prakash Yadav and constable Ram Ashish Singh, Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) lallan Yadav said. An FIR in this regard was registered at Gyanpur Police Station. Police have arrested the lawyer while a search is on forthe constable. In Aligarh, a teenage girl was seriously injured when some unidentified motorcycle-borne youths threw acid on her. The 17-year-old victim, daughter of a police head constable, was seriously injured in the attack on Thursday evening. She was admitted to a private hospital and her condition is stated to be critical. The victim is a student of Class 11 and also works part- time in a showroom. The incident took place when she was returning to her house in Surinder Nagar locality from work. The girl is not in a position to speak. A case has been registered against unknown persons and efforts were on to nab the accused. In another incident also reported from Aligarh, two sisters, who were allegedly kidnapped from the city around a week ago, have been found in Hathras district in a semi-conscious state, with their family claiming that they had been raped by the abductors. The girls, aged 20 and 23, were allegedly abducted on July 10 when they were returning from their college in Delhi Gate locality. Their father had filed a case of kidnapping with the police the same day. The girls were recovered in a semi-conscious condition in Hathras, according to police. The family of the sisters told the police that the two girls had been drugged and gang raped by their abductors, who are still at large. The victims had recorded their statements in a court on Friday.