Minor girls continued to remain at the receiving end across the state in the last 24 hours. While a class VIII student was kidnapped and raped by three youths in Deoria, a similar incident was averted in Muzaffarnagar, when villagers thrashed perpetrators and rescued a school girl, who was was kidnapped for rape.
In Deoria, the minor girl was kidnapped from her home while she was sleeping with her siblings on Monday night and taken to a nearby field and raped by three miscreants. Based on a complaint lodged by the girl's mother, a case was registered against three youths out of which two were arrested while the third was on the lam.
Elsewhere in Muzaffarnagar, two youths were beaten up by local villagers for attempting to rape a girl on the outskirts. The victim's parents alleged that four motorcycle-borne youths kidnapped their daughter while she was returning from school and tried to rape her in a cane field on Tuesday. The girl was rescued by locals, who caught two of the youths and beat them up before handing them over to the police. The police launched a search to nab the other two accused. Security was tightened in the area to thwart any untoward incident.
Meanwhile, three persons died after consuming spurious liquor in Kushinagar. The police, however, claimed that they were waiting for autopsy report to confirm the cause of death.
As per reports, some villagers of Jawahi Dayal hamlet of Taryasujan locality consumed liquor on Tuesday night after which their condition deteriorated. The villagers rushed them to the district hospital where there of them, identified as Deva Nishan (65), Heera Lal (35) and Awadh (50), were pronounced dead upon arrival. Surprisingly, despite the apprehension of villagers that the deceased died after consuming spurious liquor, doctors did not conduct autopsy and handed over their bodies to the kin. While family members of Awadh cremated him in the wee hours of Wednesday, the kin of the other two deceased kept their bodies on the main road and staged a blockade demanding action. Later, the police, who had tried to hush up the matter, sent the bodies for autopsy to convince villagers to call off their protest.
Meanwhile, at Jalaun, two members of a family were killed and another was seriously injured when a two-wheeler was hit by an unidentified vehicle near Somai village of Orai on Tuesday evening.
As per reports, Sudha (42) was returning home with her daughters -- Priya (19) and Baby (16) -- from a market when the accident occurred. Sudha and Priya died on the spot while Baby was seriously injured and was admitted to a hospital.