A woman received critical injuries after her brother-in-law allegedly raped and set her on fire in Bahraich, while in a separate incident in Bagpat, a minor was kidnapped and raped by a youth.
In Bahraich, a 25-year-old woman was allegedly raped by her brother-in-law in Kotwali Dehat area, on Tuesday night. To conceal the crime, the accused later also tried to torch the victim alive so he poured kerosene and set her ablaze. Some neighbours who rushed to her rescue some how doused the fire and rushed her to District Hospital in critical condition. The doctors who attended on her claimed that she was having 80 per cent burn.
Meanwhile, family members of the accused have alleged that the woman had attempted to immolate herself twice on earlier occasions, police said. Station House Officer, D N Singh said a case has been lodged and efforts are being made to arrest the accused. Meanwhile in Baghpat, a 16-year-old girl was allegedly abducted and raped by a youth in Ramala area here. The girl was abducted by accused Arif on Tuesday evening and
taken to a house where he raped her. Police said the 25-year-old accused abducted the girl while she had gone to a nearby grocery shop. The accused released the girl later in the night. A case was lodged against Arif by the victim’s family after the teen narrated
the incident to the local police after which the cops swung into action and managed to arrest the accused on Wednesday morning. The victim has been sent for medical examination and further investigations are on in the matter.
Meanwhile eight persons were killed when a minibus in which they were returning to Midhakur town, about 15 km from Agra, collided head-on with a tractor near Runkuta town of Agra district. The accident took place on Tuesday night when the staff of Saraswati Niketan, Intermediate College of Midhakur were returning from Vrindavan, police said.
The mishap occurred because of poor visibility caused by fog, they said. Two of the victims died on the spot, while six others were pronounced dead soon after reaching the hospital, police said, adding the deceased include the manager of the intermediate college, four lady teachers, the driver of the minibus and the truck driver, they said.
The impact was so severe that the minibus containing a total of 19 people somersaulted three times, before stopping and was broken into two, police said. The 12 injured, including the Principal of the College Sudha Singh, have been admitted to S N Hospital Agra for treatment.SP City Sameer Saurabh, ASP Shailesh Pandey, Circle Officer Ashok Kumar Singh and SDM Rekha Chauhan reached the accident site to arrange for relief and rescue work.
In another report from Rae Bareli, a couple was among three persons who were killed when their car was hit by a speeding truck near Dularaigadhi village in Gurubuxganj area. The incident took place when Devendra Mishra (56) was returning to Rae Bareli from lucknow along with his wife Deepa (50) and driver Brijesh (40), on Tuesday evening. Their bodies have been sent for postmortem and efforts were made to nab the truck driver.