A 16-year-old girl was kidnapped, gang raped and later killed in Aligarh while in a case of honour killing in Sambhal, a 19-year-old girl was allegedly killed by her father for marrying a youth of her choice.
In Aligarh, 16-year-old Jamuna (name changed) of Gurusikran in Harduaganj area went to attend coaching classes on Wednesday morning. She was a student of class 11th. When she did not return till late, her family members searched for her and later approached the police who shooed them away. later her bicycle was found near sugarcane fields. When the family members entered the fields, they found Jamuna’s body lying there.
Circumstantial evidences suggested that miscreants had intercepted the girl while she was on her way to coaching, abducted her and took her in the cane fields where they gangraped her. later the victim was strangled with the help of her dupatta which was found tied round her neck.
The killing angered the locals who blocked the busy Delhi Road and even prevented the entry of the cops to shift the body. The agitators demanded action against the cops. After about two hours of protest, district police chief reached the spot and assured a thorough probe into the matter and punish the erring cops for taking the matter lightly. On the SSP’s assurance, the blockade was removed and the victim’s body was sent for autopsy.
Menahwile in Sambhal, Kamal Singh Yadav of Sarangpur hamlet of Hyatnagar complained to the the police that his neighbour Prem Singh and his three aides had kidnapped his 19-year-old daughter Sunita Yadav on August 19. While a case was registsred, the cops took no action.
Meanwhile, Prem Singh filed a writ in the Allahabad High Court claiming the allegations to be false and informed that he was in love with Sunita and that they had married in a temple. He also annexed some visual proofs. The Court later ordered the police to produce the girl on October 13 last. When the cops did not react to the order, the court fixed November 25 and again December 12 to produce the girl. Even then the cops sought time but when the Court warned them, they claimed to have picked up the girl’s father last Monday. The cops said that during quizzing Yadav confessed to have killed Sunita with the help of two kin - Moharpal and Jaspal. Yadav said that Sunita by going against the family eloped with Prem Singh and so when she returned, they killed and dumped her body in the Gangnahar. To conceal the crime, they accused Prem Singh for kidnapping Sunita. The police registered a case of murder against Yadav but are yet to recover the body of Sunita. The cops said one of t he accused Jaspal was killed about a month back and efforts were on to arraest the other accused Moharpal.