Agitated with inaction of the Chanduli police to take cognizance of gang rape of a class 7th student hundred of villagers ransacked the Sakaldiha police station as well as local Thesil office besides being involved in heavy stone pelting and torching of several police vehicles. They also blocked busy national highway connection Uttar Pradesh- Bihar for several ours before being chased away by the heavy police force which rushed to the spot along with district magistrate and superintendent of police.
later SP Chandauli, Sharad Sachan, who was camping to maintain law and order situation claimed that the situation was normal and they got the case registered against all the five accused three of whom were also named. He said that teams were formed and raids were conducted to arrest all the accused. He claimed that they also sent the victim for medically examination. About the police inaction which led to violent protest, Sachan said that they will get the matter probed and if anyone was found guilty of negligent approach, stern action with be taken against them.
According to reports, 14-year-old Sandhya Maurya (name changed), hailing from Urwa locality of Sakaldiha in Chandauli eent to meet her friends in the village to celebrate festival of colours `Holi’, on Wednesday evening. She claimed that on her way back home, three local youths whom she identified as Vipul Singh, Vicky, Prince and t wo of their unknown associates intercepted her and later pulled her in a secluded place where they all the five raped her one by one. later then she was seriously injured in the process, all the accused escaped but had threatened to kill her if she will reveal the incident to anyone. However, when the girl reached home she narrated the entire story after which she was taken to local hospital but the staff refused to give her treatment on the ground that it was a medicol legal case. When Sandhya’s father went to Sakaldiha police station to register a case he was once again shown the door after the cops present there refused to register his FIR.
Reports further said that the matter took an ugly turn when after learning of the inhuman behavior of the local administrative officers, hundred of villagers collected at Aleemnagar crossing on Thursday morning. They first blocked the traffic movement demanding arrest of the culprits and action against cops who refused to register a report. However, when the local police tried to chase them away after using force, the crowd went on rampage. They attacked the police party before entering the police station campus and ransacking the belongings. The irate mob and barged inside Thesil office and damaged the furniture besides setting it on fire. They also torched the vehicles on which the cops reached the pot. later finding the situation going out of control, local police called senior officers who subsequently rushed along ith heavy police force from neighboring police stations. Reports said that the blockade by the agitated crowd continued for more than five hours till Thursday afternoon and only lifted after officers assured of stern action not just against the guilty youths but also against the cops who refused to take cognizance of the heinous crime.
Meanwhile two more minor girls were raped in Banda and Basti respectively while in one another incident of attack on modesty of member of fairer sex, about half a dozen persons received pellet injuries when some miscreants who were teasing girls opened fire in Bahraich district on Wednesday night. In Banda, 13-year-old Sangeeta (name changed) hailing from Tilausa in Kamsin locality went to celebrate Holi on Wednesday evening when her 18-year- old neighbor Atul lodhi took advantage of the situation. He pulled her in the fields and raped her. Similarly in Basti, 15-year-old Renu name changed), a resident of Banaksahi hamlet of Munderwa was raped by local youth identified as Dileep Kumar on Wednesday night. The accused in both the above cases were arrested and send to jail.
Reports in the last case confirmed that some youths who were in inebriated state start teasing girls who came to enjoy Holi Milan function at Babhai hamlet of Pandit Ka Purwa under Katraniyaghat police station of Bahraich on Wednesday night. After finding that the miscreants even trying to physically assault the girl, some local villagers objected the youths and asked them to leave the pandal. This irked the accused and they whipped out country made revolver and opened fire in which five visitors received pellet injuries. They were rushed to District Hospital where four of them were identified as Chabbe lal Verma, lalla, Ramanand, and Durgesh. A case was registered in this regard by the local police but no one as arrested.