While 22-year-old rape victim who was burnt by the accused in Etawah succumbed to her injury at Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences at Saifai, the home district of Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, on late Thursday night, yet another 12-year-old girl was allegedly gang raped by two local youths in Shamli on Thursday.
The local police in Shamli claimed to have arrested one of the accused and trying to nab one another who was absconding. According to reports from Shamli, Naina (name changed), a native of Hindwada locality of the city had gone to collect water from a public hand-pump in Hindwada village on early Thursday morning when two youths hailing from the same locality lured and took her to a nearby vacant plot. They later gang raped her and escaped after threatening her with dire consequences.
The family members who launched a search for Naina when she not returned home, claimed to have later found her in unconscious state with her clothes torn. She was taken to nearby District Hospital where after regaining conscious, she revealed the trauma and also disclosed name of one of the accused as Akbar, residing in the same locality. later the cops registered a case and conducted raid and nabbed Akbar (25) and send him to jail. They also claimed to have extracted the name of other accused and were making efforts to nab him.
Meanwhile after battling for life for nine days, 22-year-old gang rape victim succumbed at Saifai in Etawah on late Thursday night. On July 10, the college student was criminally assaulted by four men and later set afire at Desarmau village in Ekdil area of the district. The victim was admitted to SGPGI at Saifai with 90 per cent burns. She succumbed to her injuries late on Thursday night. Police had lodged a case against four men into the incident and arrested the main accused. State government had ordered a magisterial probe into the rape incident, which evoked great resentment among people and the political outfits.
In two more separate incidents, three sisters allegedly committed suicide in Mathura while four persons were killed in road mishap at Bijnore. In Mathura, Sonia (28), Neelam (26) and Kalpana (20), all hailing from Chatikara locality were reportedly having some family dispute. While Sonia and Neelam were married to a brother-duo, the youngest Kalpana, who was pursuing her BA, was staying with her Sisters. According to reports all the three reportedly consumed some poisonous substance on Thursday evening and turned unconscious. They were taken to hospital where all the three were found to be dead.
According to SSP Mathura, RKS Rathore, though the family members claimed it to be a case of suicide but still they were probing the matter as no note or any other document was recovered so far which corroborated the statement of family members. The bodies of all the three were also sent for post-mortem examination. According to reports from Bijnore, four persons were killed and 35 others injured in a head-on collision between a truck and a tractor-trolley on Bijnore-Haldaur highway on late Thursday night. About 50 people, belonging to Akhlaspur village under Haldaur area, were returning home in the tractor-trolley after attending cremation of a local when they met with the accident. The collision was so fierce that the tractor got separated from the trolley and fell on one side and the trolley was run over by the truck. About a dozen of the injured who were shifted to hospital were stated to be in `critical’ condition. The local police registered a case and was trying to nab the driver of the truck who fled the scene soon after the accident.