Throwing an open challenge before the law enforcing agencies, unidentified miscreants freely targeted the members of fairer sex when they kidnapped a student and killed her after gang rape in Bulundshahr, two more girls were gang raped in Shahjahenpur and Mathura respectively while in Bareilly, minor athletes were sexually exploited by their coach after showing them porn clips on mobiles.
In Bulundshahr, the family members of the girl and other local residents staged a huge demonstration after keeping the body on road. They alleged that the girl was killed due to police negligence and demanded action against the cops. It was only after the chief minister’s office assured of prompt action, the family members allowed to conduct the post-mortem examination of the victim.
According to reports from Bulundshahr, a student of class 12th residing under the Kotwali city area, had went to attend tuition classes on Tuesday evening. When she not returned home, her family members launched a hunt and after learning from some passers-by that a girl was kidnapped, and the cycle, slippers along with school bag was also found lying at the spot, the family members immediately informed the local police.
As per the CCTV footage, a white colour Alto car having no registration plate was seen stopping near the girl, and the occupants, probably three, forcibly huddled the victim in the car and escaped towards Delhi after taking U-turn. The family members claimed that the cops refused to take any action claiming that the girl will be back as it might be case of love affair. However, the matter took an ugly turn when the body of the girl was found lying in canal at Dadri locality of Greater Noida area on Thursday night.
The family members were shocked to find the victim as their kidnapped daughter. The jeans and other undergarments were not found in place and injuries pointed that the girl was gang raped and later strangulated to death. Agitated with the killing, the cops on Friday, kept the body on road near their house and staged a huge protest demanding action against the policemen and arrest of culprits. later on intervention of chief minister’s office, they called off their agiatation. local police claimed that they picked up five youths on suspicion and were interrogating them to extract truth. However, no breakthrough has been made till late on Friday evening.
In a separate incident reported from Shahjahenpur, a 19-year-old girl was kidnapped from her house in Puwaiya locality on last Sunday evening. Her father reported the matter to the local police but they failed to forward any relief. On Thursday evening, the girl returned in injured state and revealed her trauma. Identifying the accused as Rahul, Rajeev, and Guddu, she alleged that the accused took her to a farm-house in neighbouring lakhimpur Kheri where she was confined in a room for last four days and gang raped by the accused. She claimed to have somehow slipped on Thursday evening and managed to reach home. loca, police admitted her in hospital and efforts were on to nab the culprits. In Mathura, one minor girl hailing form Shivgarh area went to work in the fields when three youths, one of whom she identified as lakshman, pulled her in the fields and gang raped her on Thursday evening. The girl was sent for medical examination by the local police but no one was arrested.
In the last case reported from Bareilly, a coach has been booked on charges of rape and also under the POSCO Act for allegedly attempting
to rape two minor women athletes. Superintendent of Police (city) Rohit Sajwan said, a case under the POCSO Act and for committing rape has been registered against the absconding coach Sahibe Alam. According to police, a woman athlete alleged that Alam had molested her and attempted to rape her during a tournament in Meeraganj. When the athlete resisted, the coach started harassing her.
Another woman athlete also complained that during the monsoon marathon held in Nainital last month, Alam first showed porn films and then tried to rape her. After returning from Nainital, the athlete narrated her plight to family members. After this family members of both athletes lodged a complaint against the coach, and on the orders of SSP Bareilly Jogendra Kumar, a case under the POCSO Act and for committing rape was registered against the coach, police said.