Women and minor girls continued to be the soft targets of sexual predators across the state, with two women being sexually assaulted and killed in Banda and Shahjahenpur, while two others were raped in the last 24-hours.
Meanwhile in Jhansi, a 17-year-old teenaged girl and her male friend were beaten up, dragged into the hostel of a Polytechnic College, raped, filmed and robbed of cash by a group of students despite police police on the campus for a competitive exam on Sunday.
In her complaint, the victim said that she was meeting with a male friend when a dozen Polytechnic College students dragged them into a hostel, beeat them up severely and one of the students raped her. Not satisfied, the miscreants robbed the girl of Rs 2,000 and filmed her while she was being violated.
Some cops heard the sobbing girl and took her to Sipree Bazar police station where she lodged a complaint and identified one of the accused as Bharat, a second year student. The police arrested five Polytechnic students and were trying to nab the rest of the miscreants.
In Banda, the body of a 27-year-old woman was found in the nude in Bangalipura hamlet of Badausa on Monday morning. Circumstantial evidence suggested that she had been assaulted and murdered some place else and later her body was dumped to conceal the crime. One of her eyes was also gouged out with a sharp edged weapon. The police registered a case in this connection and after preliminary enquiry did not rule out the possible role of her in-laws.
Elsewhere in Lakhimpur Kheri, a teenager from Pakgth village of Kheri was murdered and dumped in a sugarcane field on the fringes of the village on Sunday evening. The victim went missing on Friday. After a preliminary probe, the police said that there were ante-mortem injuries on the teenager’s neck. A case was registered on the basis of the parents' complaint of disappearance of the victim and the body was sent for autopsy. The complainants suspected that someone raped and killed the victim.
In Shamli, a youth lured his six-year-old girl neighbour with a Rs 10 note and took her to a secluded place before sexually assaulting her. After returning home, the girl narrated her ordeal after which a case was registered and the accused was arrested.
Similarly in Deoria, a 3-year-old girl of Maiel locality was raped by her neighbour Samir on Sunday night.
Meanwhile in Badaun, a BJP booth committee chief was arrested on charges of harassing a girl in Sahaswan area.
As per reports, Vipin Mali of Shahbazpur area of Sahaswan police station is the booth committee chief of the BJP. Three days back, he tried to force himself upon a girl in the neighbourhood. Hearing her screams, the locals gathered on the spot but failed to manage the predator. Later accase was registered against Mali and he was arrested on Monday.