In yet another case of gangrape and murder, four youths of Faizabad gangraped a 17-year-old girl in a moving car and then threw her out of the vehicle in Barabanki late Saturday night.
The victim was a resident of Aminganj under Khandsa police station in Faizabad district. The girl was rushed in a critical stage at Trauma Centre in the state capital where she died on Sunday morning. Police sources said that the youths took the girl in their SUV and then raped her. later, the accused strangulated her and threw her near the highway from the moving vehicle under the Safdarganj police station in Barabanki district.
On getting the information, a police vehicle reached the place and took the girl to the district hospital from where she was referred to the KGMU’s Trauma Centre in lucknow where she died on Sunday morning. The victim, a student of Intermediate, had given her statement to police before her death in which she blamed mobile shop owner Shoib aka Nadeem and his three friends for the crime. The victim in her statement said she was abducted by Shoib and his friends when she was going to her friend’s house.
Tension prevailed in Aminganj area of Faizabad after the incident and additional security forces were deployed in the village. Police claimed that they had arrested one of the accused but others were absconding. Meanwhile, a team of five doctors conducted the post-mortem examination with videography. The DNA of the girl was preserved for investigation.
According to police, Shoib aka Nadeem is the resident of Bari under the Rudauli police station. Shoib runs a mobile shop in Amaniganj. The body of the girl bore several injury marks on her face, chest and back. The victim is survived by her mother, a brother, two sisters and a grandfather. Inspector incharge of Khandasa police station Harilal Kardam said that a case of abduction had been lodged against Shoib.
“We are waiting for the post-mortem report to ascertain rape,” he added. Family members of the deceased revealed that the girl was abducted, gangraped and beaten badly due to which she had died. “My girl was innocent. A few micreants had perpetrated such a barbaric act on her. Criminals should be given strick punishment. We will approach the Chief Minister in this connection if denied justice from police,” lamented the victim’s grandfather.