Crime against members of fairer sex remains unabated in the State with two daughters of a retired judge molested inside Magadh Express, a woman was raped and murdered in Faizabad, another killed in Banda, a teacher shot at in Aligarh and a woman was gang raped in Muzaffarnagar during the last 24-hours.
Reports said that teenage daughters of a retired judge boarded S-5 coach of Delhi bound Magdh Express from Allahabad on early Thursday morning. They claimed that as the train nearing Kanpur, half a dozen jawans of army molested them and when they objected, they assaulted and threatened them with their lives. They claimed to have somehow called the police control room near Chandari Railway Station in Kanpur and appraised the cops of the excesses of army personnel. They revealed that luckily, the cops of the Government Railway Police in Etawah responded to their calls and entered into their coach and took two of the jawans in their custody. later a case was registered and both the jawans, identified as Nayak, Amit Kumar Rai and Nayak, Tapesh Kumar Singh, posted at Bihar Regiment in Danapur at Patna, Bihar, were arrested.
In Faizabad, body of a woman probably in her mid-twenties was found lying in a secluded place at Themavaisya hamlet of Inayatnagar on Wednesday evening. The cops rushed to the spot and claimed that circumstantial evidences suggested that the victim was gang raped before being hacked to death with some sharp edged weapon. A case has been registered and body was sent for post-mortem examination. Efforts were made to maintain identity of the victim.
In one another case reported from Banda, some miscreants killed a 16-year-old
Dalit girl after they failed in their attempt to abduct her from her home in Aliha hamlet of the district. The girl, a student of class 10, was sleeping when the miscreants climbed up into the house and tried to abduct her, and when she resisted, they battered her to death with stones and bricks. Her father has filed a complaint against neighbours. last month, the elder sister of the girl who was ‘divyang’ was abducted and police have been unable to trace her. However, even now after the above killing, the cops claimed some suspicion over the report lodged by the family.
In Aligarh, 35-year-old Arti Mittal, a resident of Railway Road Colony, who is a teacher in Blue Bird School, was going to join her duty on Thursday morning when two motorcycle borne miscreants fired at her near Gandhi Park. Arti was critically injured in the attack and rushed to hospital. A case has been registered by the local police but the culprits were yet to be identified.
In a separate case lodged in Muzaffarnagar, a 30-year-old woman was
allegedly raped by three men when she was waiting at Miranpur bus stand on Wednesday evening. The accused came on two bikes and offered to drop her. They, instead, took her to a sugarcane field, and raped her. They also threatened to kill her if she disclosed the incident to anyone. The police said a case has been registered against the accused, who are absconding.