Close on heels of two sisters being raped by men in uniform in Sambhal, in another sensational incident, two teenaged girls were abducted by their neighbours and gang-raped in Ballia on Saturday.
A case was registered after the girls were rescued on Tuesday
The victims, aged 16 and 17, were abducted by Asif and Chunnu Qureshi while his aide Suraj Chauhan confined the girls at an unknown location where they were gang-raped on Saturday.
On Wednesday, acting on the complaint of a victim’s mother, the police rescued both teenagers and sent them for medical examination.
The police also arrested the three accused. Investigations are on.
Meanwhile, in a bizarre incident reported from Faizabad, some villagers chopped off the nose of a man and a woman from different faiths for having an affair, at Kand Pipra village in Patranga police station area on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday.
Additional police force was deployed at the village to ensure peace between the two communities.
The police said that the 28-year-old man visited the 35-year-old woman’s house when her father-in-law and other kin caught them. They thrashed the duo before chopping off their noses.
The woman’s husband works in Saudi Arabia.
SSP of Faizabad, Ashish Tiwari, said the woman’s father-in-law and others involved in the crime were arrested and the victims were admitted to district hospital where their condition was said to be stable.
Meanwhile in Mathura, a 27-year-old doctor, who sustained gunshot injuries along with a sub-inspector when gun-runners opened fire at them on Tuesday, succumbed to his injuries at a hospital later in the night.
Acting on a tip-off that some gun-runners were to meet on the outskirts of Sirauli village, Sub-inspector Ajai Awana of Kosi Kalan police station went to the spot in civilian clothes along with Dr Amar Singh (27) on Tuesday evening.
But as they reached there, the group started firing indiscriminately, injuring Awana and Singh. Both were rushed to KD Hospital where Singh succumbed to his injuries on Tuesday night.
Awana was later shifted to a private hospital in Noida.
Dr Amar Singh of Hatana village of Kosi Kalan police station area ran a clinic in Falen village. It is not yet known why Singh was at the spot.
The body was sent for autopsy.
Two country-made pistols were recovered from the spot. A manhunt has been launched to nab the assailants and two FIRs have been lodged against the group.