Agitated with rape and killing of a 12-year-old girl in Mathura, hundred of villagers turned violent on Tuesday morning. They brutally assaulted the accused before handing them in the custody of the police.
Surprisingly, the cops after finding one of the accused already succumbed in their custody had dumped the body in a secluded place besides admitting the injured in the hospital and later sleeping away. This further agitated the villagers and they went on rampage and also blocked the rail traffic for several hours. It was only when senior officers reached the spot and suspended the in-charge of the local police outpost, the villagers cleared the track.
Reports said that a minor girl hailing from Parkham locality of Mathura had went to graze her cattle on Monday evening. When she not returned, the family members launched a hunt but they failed to get any clue. On Tuesday morning, the family members during search located the body of the girl lying inside thick bushes near Parkham railway station. The circumstantial evidences suggested that the victim was raped before being murdered by the accused who later dumped the body in the bushes to conceal the crime. The family members suspected the hands of laluwa aka Shyam Valmiki (28), and Sonu Valmiki in the said crime so they nabbed both and brutally assaulted them. When both turned serious, local villagers handed them over to incharge of the local Parkham police outpost, Nepal Singh.
Reports said that after finding that Shyam died few minutes after the villagers left the police outpost, Nepal Singh reportedly dumped his body and only admitted Sonu in the hospital. However, the situation further worsened the situation as soon after getting information that the cops not shown arrest of the above accused, the local public gathered and blocked the entire rail traffic movement. After several hours of violent protest, district police chief of Mathura, Rakesh Singh reached the spot. To pacify the protesters, he announced suspension of inspector of Farah police station, Tezweer Singh, police outpost incharge Nepal Singh and two other accused cops and assured that stern action will be taken in the matter. later the villagers called off the agitation and returned to their villagers.
Meanwhile about half a dozen more cases of sexual assaulted reported from separate localities of the State since the past 24-hours. In Bahraich, a 24-year-old woman, residing in Nawabganj area, stated in her report lodged with the local police that Gulam Rasool, Chotwa, Shakeel, Kalutey, Panjabi, Bashiullah and Chotwa’s kin had took her on knife point and gang raped her one by one on Monday night. local police claimed to have arrested five of the accused after registering the case in the matter. In a similar matter reported from Bulundshahr, a woman of same age group claimed that she went to attend call of nature in Gulawati area when Prince, Sonu, Golu, Sanjeev, all local residents nabbed and gang raped her on Monday night. In Sulatnpur, a 12-year-old girl went out to play when a local lad identified as Rahul, lured the girl and took her to mango orchard and raped her on Tuesday morning.
In Banda, a 7-year-old Dalit girl was raped by 13-year-old boy identified as Sonu, when she went to play outside on Monday evening.In Ghaziabad also, a woman was alleged to be raped by two police constables.