In a sudden spurt of cases against members of fairer sex, a Dalit girl was raped and murdered in Etah, another minor gang raped and killed in Hardoi, while attack on modesty forced a girl to commit suicide in Ghaziabad. In the first case reported from Etah, a 19-year-old Dalit girl, whose engaged was scheduled to take place on Saturday, was allegedly gang raped and killed by four persons, including a brother-duo, in Jalesar area during the wee hours of Friday. Her body was found hanging with a tree on Friday morning. The victim, a native of Sikenderpur Garhi in Jalesar, was alone in the house while her family members were in the fields when she was alleged to be abducted by Ankit Singh, his brother Amit, and two other accused identified as Kailash and Praveen. later also the four raped her one by one, and in fear that she would reveal their names, the accused strangulated her to death and hanged the body with a tree to make it a case of suicide. The family members who launched hunt for the girl recovered the body on Friday morning after which they informed the local police. A case has been registered and four teams were formed to nab the culprits.
In a similar case reported from Hardoi, a 15-year-old girl hailing from Jahirpur hamlet of Kasimpur, went missing from her house on Thursdaymorning. Her family members launched hunt and were shocked when they recovered her body hanging with a tree outside the village. local police which rushed to the spot claimed that the circumstantial evidences suggested that the victim was gang-raped by someone known to her hence in fear of being arrested, they strangulated her to death and hanged the body to make it a case of suicide. The body of the victim was sent for post-mortem examination and further investigations are on.
In Ghaziabad, a 16-year-old girl hailing from Vijaynagar area was reportedly teased and molested by one youth of another religion identified as lovely Khan. The family members lodged a case against the accused who was also arrested but in depression, the girl reportedly self-immolated herself on early Friday morning and died on way to hospital. Meanwhile in Mathura, a third-year B Tech student allegedly abducted a woman of his college in broad daylight and then tried to kill her when she resisted his attempts to rape her.
The incident took place on Thursday when the accused, Harsh, a resident of Ghaziabad, abducted the girl, a second year student in a polytechnic college in Vrindavan area, from a bus near Holi gate area. The accused then forced her into a car and took her to a secluded area at Mathura-Vrindavan road where he tried to drug and rape her. When the woman resisted, Harsh hit her on the head with a brick. She was later rescued by a local leader who with the help of police admitted her to the hospital. The girl has been admitted to a hospital in Agra by her family and a hunt is underway to nab the accused. The victim’s friends told the police that she had complained against the accused to the college administration but he was only issued a warning and no strict action was taken against him. Meanwhile, the police have recovered a bottle of the sedative which was used to drug the girl.
In a separate case reported from Muzaffarnagar, a case against one Nazakat Ali, a head-master in Primary School at Khubbapur locality of Mansurpur, has been registered with the local police in which the complainant said that the accused had teased his daughter studying in class 5th. He further stated in his FIR that when his wife objected after learning of the incident, the head-master brutally assaulted his daughter and threatened her with dire consequences. A case has been registered and further probe was on. In Basti, one Siyaram, a resident of Dubaliya barged inside the house of a local Dalit resident and raped his 16-year-old daughter after finding her alone on Thursday evening.