With chief minister already facing heat from all corners, law and order had further taken for a ride when the criminals freely attacked on the modesty of the members of fairer sex and even in some cases, they went ahead to eliminate the victims in order to conceal the crime.
In Bareilly, a 22-year-old girl was allegedly gang raped, before being murdered by the accused. The criminals even burnt her face with acid to conceal her identity. Reports said that body of a 22-year-old girl was recovered from a field in Aithpura village in Bahedi locality of Bareilly, on Saturday. The cops suspected that she was gang raped before being strangulated to death. Reports also said that some acid was also found in her stomach during autopsy pointing that she might be forced to consume it. SSP Bareilly, J Ravindra Gaur said there was a possibility of the victim hailing from Uttrakhand, and therefore a team has been dispatched there for investigation.
In Mathura, one 32-year-old woman, hailing from Radhapuram Colony, lodged a report with the Kotwali police station, on Sunday evening. She alleged that Mahatab Singh, manager of Draupadi Devi Inter College in Pali Dogra locality, had lured her in the name of job. She claimed that the accused took her to Ganga Palace Hotel where he along with two of his accomplices had raped her. They also threatened her with her life before setting her free. A case has been registered and efforts were made to nab the accused. In Gorakhpur, 16-year-old girl, residing in Bohwar hamlet of Chagha, had went to attend call of nature on Sunday evening when she was nabbed by Shambhu, Arvind, and Gopal, all local residents and gang raped. local police registered a case and sent the girl for medical examination.
In another incident reported from Bagpat, a 22-year-old girl, hailing from Patti Chudhran locality of Badaut, was going with her friend, when she was intercepted by one Shahzad and two more unknown miscreants. The accused looted Rs 15,000 cash from the youth and also pulled the girl in near-by bushed and gang raped her at gun point. A case was registered but no one was arrested.
In a separate incident at Muzaffarnagar, two sisters of a family have been harassed by three men at Miranpur locality, who also shot at one of them, after facing resistence. Reports said that the younger daughter was harassed by the three men following which her father lodged a complaint with the local police, on Sunday evening. Soon after learning of the move, the three accused, identified as Shadeb Sheikh, Pintu, Zaved, then pressurised the family to withdraw the case, failing which they also harassed the elder daughter and shot at her on Sunday. In another case also reported from Muzaffarnagar, a youth, identified as Balu, allegedly attempted to rape a woman priest in a temple and she was seriously injured during the incident. The incident happened on Sunday in a Shiva temple at Muradpura village, and the victim was seriously injured when she tried to resist the rape bid, local police claimed. When some locals reached the temple, they caught hold of
the accused, beat him up and later handed him over to the police.
In another incident, a pregnant woman was gang raped by four youth in Nai Mandi area of Muzaffarnagar district. Four youth barged into the house of the woman and assaulted her criminally. They also thrashed her husband and brother-in-law on raising objection. In a similar incident, police has arrested three people, who raped a woman in Basai Mohammadpur area.
In Meerut, a 10-year-old alleged gangrape victim was allegedly abducted from outside her house in Ganganagar on Sunday. The minor was playing outside her home when the incident happened. The girl’s family have registered a complaint against two unidentified persons and one Sunita, mother of one of the accused in the gangrape case of the same victim, suspecting their involvement in the adduction. Sunita’a son Arvind and two other unidentified persons on March 18, had allegedly abducted the minor and gangraped her after drugging her in a hostel in Ganganagar. Arvind was arrested onMarch 20 and sent to jail, while rest two are yet to be arrested. The family suspects that the abduction may have been done to pressurise them to withdraw the gangrape case.
In yet another case at Shamli, a woman was abducted, threatened and sexually assaulted by four youth in Kairana locality. Police have lodged a case against Mehboob, Mobin, Munawar and Noor Mohammad and started a search for them. In Chitrakoot, a man killed the grand-mother of the girl after she objected to his rape attempt in Shivrampur area. Investigation was on.
Meanwhile reports from Rampur confirmed that the local police registered three old cases of gang rape only after intervention of court. The district police registered the three cases, that took
place between December last year and March this year, on May
31 following orders from a local court.According to the police crime register, a woman had filed a complaint at Khajuriya police station on March 10 that her brother-in-law entered her room and raped her, along with three others. later, when the woman informed her husband and elderly in-laws she was allegedly beaten up. After police allegedly
refused to act on her complaint, she moved the court. In another case, a woman was allegedly gang-raped by two men. She alleged that her husband had forced the two men on her after she opposed to his second marriage. In the third case, six persons allegedly entered the house of an unmarried woman when she was alone, and raped her at pistol point in Swar police station area. When contacted, district police chief Sadhna Goswami said impartial and fair action will be taken in all the three cases.