With people still not forget the sexual exploitation of women in the Dera Sachcha Sauda Ashram, yet another similar case came to light in Basti district when some girls appeared before the local police, alleging that a Baba of a local Ashram had sexually abused them after forcibly detaining them in the Ashram.
local police claimed to have taken their complaint and are investigating the matter. However, the accused reportedly absconded soon after learning of complaint lodged against him. Reports said that four girls contacted the district police chief of Basti, Sankalp Sharma, two days back and informed him that they were sexually exploited by Baba Sachidanand and his henchmen.
The victims hailing from Jharkhand district disclosed that they came to the Ashram in 2008 when they were 12-years-old and were since then confined to the boundaries of the Ashram. They alleged that the Baba and his henchmen used to rape them and whenever they protested, they were assaulted and threatened with their lives. According to the victims, they somehow slipped out of the Ashram on last Monday and decided to lodge a case with the police so other followers of the Baba who too were going through similar trauma could be rescued and the culprits will be brought to book.
Sankalp Sharma reportedly disclosed to the local media that they tried to round up the Baba but he was found absconding. The Baba also owned ashram in many other states also so he handed over a probe to find out the truth and take stern legal proceedings in the matter.
Meanwhile a double murder and a separate case of rape and abduction also rocked Muzaffarnagar. In the first case, brutally hacked bodies of a Dalit woman and her 5-year-old nephew were found lying outside their village on Wednesday morning. The local villagers later led a huge protest, who initially refused to handover the bodies, alleging that the police callous approach led to killing. Reports said that Prachi (22), a resident of luhari hamlet of Charthawal in Muzaffarnagar, studying in a local college, and her 5-year-old nephew identified as Sandeep, disappeared under mysterious circumstances after they went out of the home on Tuesday morning. Their family members launched a hunt and after failing, they reported the matter to the local police but the cops refused to lodge any case and directed the family to look the victims on their own.
The matter took an ugly turn when the bodies of both the victims were found lying in the cane field of the local pradhan on Wednesday. Both the victims were brutally hacked to death with some sharp edged weapons. The news of recovery of bodies went like a wild fire and within no time, hundred of local villagers reached the spot and they staged a protest refusing to handover the bodies to the local police. Villagers claimed that in action of the cops led to killing. later on assurance of the cops to arrest the culprits, the villagers allowed to conduct post-mortem examination of both the victims. The police also formed three special teams to trace the killers.
In one another incident also reported from the same district, a 23-year-old woman was allegedly abducted and gang-raped by three men at
Basdhara village.The incident took place on Tuesday when three men abducted the woman while she was out to collect water from the nearby
hand pump, Station House Officer (SHO) BV Singh said.He said the accused allegedly threatened to kill her if she told about the incident to anyone. “The accused were there in the village to attend a marriage on Tuesday. As of now, all three of them are absconding. However, efforts are on to nab them at the earliest,” the officer said. A case has been registered on the basis of the complaint lodged by the woman’s parents, while she has been sent for medical examination, he added.