With the Uttar Pradesh Police busy in unearthing the alleged international conspiracy behind the recent Hathras trouble, more cases of rape, killing and other crimes poured in from different parts of the state during the last 24 hours.
In Aligarh, a six-year-old girl who was allegedly raped by her cousin in Jatoi area of the district, succumbed to her injuries in Safdarjung Hospital in New Delhi on Sunday, the day she was shifted there. However, her father did not bury the body to expose the police's negligence.
The Aligarh police acted when the victim’s father put the body and staged a demonstration on Tuesday, prompting the SSP of Aligarh to get the 11-year-old accused arrested and also place the station house officer of Iglas police station under suspension and order a departmental inquiry against him.
Surprisingly, the case was registered on September 21, four days after the rape, that too when the SSP intervened, but the cops initiated no action against the accused and also made no efforts to trace out the 15-year-old sister of the victim who was missing along with her aunt (also an accused in the case) since the registration of the case.
The aunt was absconding to avert her arrest but the cops had no answer why the sister also disappeared.
Both the victim and the missing girl were living with their aunt as their mother had expired in January this year.
ADM (Hathras) JP Singh told a news agency that since the day of rape incident, the maternal aunt and victim’s sister were missing.
“Police are searching for the missing girl so that nothing bad happens to her,” he said.
He also claimed that the administration had promised a compensation of Rs 5 lakh to the family.
In another sensational killing, a couple was hacked to death in Kushinagar. The killing took place some time late Monday night when the couple were sleeping in their house at Parsauni Bujurg hamlet of Tarya Sujan.
The bodies were found in pools of blood on Tuesday morning.
The police suspect the hands of Ramshankar, a listed criminal of the area, in he murder as the couple were witnesses against him in four criminal cases.
In another incident, a girl received more than 80 per cent burns after efforts were made to burn her alive in Sitapur late Monday night.
SP of Sitapur, RP Singh, said that a girl hailing from Bhojipura area of Bareilly left her house to live with her lover, identified as Pratap of Shahjahanpur.
Her family members had married her with another youth but as she was in love with Pratap, she left her husband.
Singh claimed that the girl was pressuring Pratap to marry her so on Monday, her lover brought her to Sitapur assuring her of marriage but later with the help of his friend, Kaushal, poured kerosene over the girl and set her ablaze. However, some villagers of Piswa rushed to the girl’s help and the accused escaped.
The victim was shifted to district hospital from where she was referred to Trauma Centre in Lucknow.
In Saharanpur also, Ramkumar Verma was burnt alive by unidentified miscreants. The body of Verma was found lying near Khudana Nahar in Nanauta area of the district on Tuesday morning. Police claimed to have formed a team to work out the case.
In Kaushambi, a 19-year-old woman was allegedly abducted from her village and raped by two youths, police said on Tuesday.
The woman was abducted on September 13 by the duo who are cousins. They took her to their relatives’ place in the Paschim Sarira police station area and raped her, the victim’s father alleged. She somehow managed to escape and returned home about a week back and told her family about the incident.
Her father said the local police refused to register an FIR. The family then approached Kaushambi’s superintendent of police and after he intervened, an FIR was registered on Monday.
In one more incident, a Dalit girl was allegedly raped by a man in Pratapgarh following which the accused was arrested, police said on Tuesday.
The incident took place on Sunday when the 17-year-old girl was sleeping in her house and the accused, identified as Chandrakesh Verma, entered her room through the terrace and raped her, police said.
According to police, the girl was alone in the house at the time of the incident.
In another rape incident, a deaf and dumb girl was raped in Gorakhpur.
According to reports, the girl was alone in her house in Kewladabar hamlet on Monday evening when her neighbour, identified as Pintu, entered the house and taking advantage of the situation, raped her and escaped.
The cops registered a case but the accused was not arrested.