In a sensational incident reported from Muzaffarnagar, a minor girl was alleged to be raped at gunpoint by a youth at her own house on Sunday evening. A case was registered in this regard by the local police who launched a hunt for the accused.
Reports said that 15-year-old Kiran (name changed) native of Kitas hamlet of Muzaffarnagar was alone in the house on Sunday evening as her family members gone out to attend some function,
Taking advantage of the situation one of the neighbours identified as Sudhir along with two of his associates who were identified as Dharmender and Chotu, barged into the victim's house. Sudhir later pulled her in one of the room and locked her while his
accomplices guarded the door so that no one could come inside. After raping the girl all the three threatened to kill her if she will reveal the incident to anyone. However,
when the family members returned home, Kiran narrated her trauma after which a case was registered against the accused but they all managed to abscond. Sources further
said that even later they threatened the family members either to withdraw the case or be ready for the consequences.
In one another case also reported from Muzaffarnagar, a woman's body was found on Monday morning, She was suspected to have been strangulated to death. The cops who recovered the body and send it for autopsy test claimed that they were trying to maintain her identity so that they could close down on the criminals. The cops also not ruled out possibility of the victim being sexually exploited before murdered by the accused.
Meanwhile a 40-year-old woman and her eight-year-old nephew drowned after they fell into a drain filled with flood water at Gurguchpur village in Reosa area of Sitapur. Reports said some women and children all of same family had gone to pick mangoes in the fields which is already flooded with water due to heavy rains in the area, on
Sunday evening. Tragedy occurred when five of the members slipped inside a drain as they failed to see it. luckily some villagers responded to the SOS and managed
to rescue one woman and two children but still one of the woman and her nephew died in the incident. They were identified as 40-year-old Dhan Devi and her nephew Arjun (8). later, the bodies of the victims were fished out by police with the help of villagers and sent for post mortem examination.