Infant raped in Bulandshahr

Rape spree continues unabated in the State, where an infant was raped by a 45-year-old man in Bulandshehar district, evoking furore among the public as well as the opposition parties leaders.

 The horrifying sexual assault incident took place in Pahasu area of Bulandshehar district late Thursday night, when a
13-month-old child was raped by a middle-aged man Superintendent of Police (rural) Vijay Gautam said here on Friday that the accused Gyan Singh, a native of Aligarh, has been arrested and sent to jail. The victim girl, had come on a marriage function from Chiji village in Gautam Buddha Nagar district, when the man raped the minor founding her alone.    The victim has been admitted to Meerut Medical College, where she was stated critical.

Gyan Singh, who had also come to attend the marriage, has admitted the crime before the media-persons. In another incident at Azamgarh, a 15-year-old Dalit girl, hailing from Jiyapur hamlet of Tarwa was gang raped by the local villagers on Thursday evening. local police registered a case but failed to nab the accused as they said to have absconded. Just in this week, about a dozan incidents of sexual assault have come to light in the state. In a similar crime, a girl was raped and set afire in Etawah, the native place of Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday.

The victim is battling for life in a hospital with 85 per cent burns. Police have registered a case against seven persons, including four women.  The family members of the victim said the boy whom she loved, raped her and later set her ablaze with the assistance of his family members.Four days ago, a poor four-year-old girl was raped and murdered in posh Gomti Nagar area of  capital city.  In another shocking incident in Pratapgarh, a dalit gangrape victim was attacked and her tongue was chopped off on Wednesdayevening.  The incident took place at Naubasta village under Jethwara police station, where the 18-year-old-girl rape victim was admitted to hospital after three youths chopped off her tongue to disallow her to give any statement.Another incident of rape and murder was also reported from Pratapgarh in which the family took road to pressurize the cops to arrest the culprits. In Moradabad, a medical student was raped and killed few days ago, while in Bulandshehar a woman was gang raped in the name of employment.Similar case was reported from Muzaffarnagar.

In Saharanpur, attempt was made to kill a girl athlete by five car borne miscreants just as the victim and her colleagues dared to protest the incident. In Kanpur, Varanasi, and Allahabad also, one case each of sexual exploitation has been already reported this week. Interestingly, ADG (law and order) Arun Kumar claimed to be already on the job to control such crimes. He said that training of changes in the law about sexual crime has been already updated to the cops and they were already sensitized towards the issue. However, he admitted that even than such crimes are reported but he said that police alone could not put a break on it but the entire society had to join hands to end the menace.