With no action still taken against the minister or the local police accused for setting a scribe on fire and killing him, yet another shocking incident came from Barabanki.
This time a woman accused the cops of making an attempt to rape her and that when she resisted, they tried to burn her alive in which she was critically injured on Monday morning.
Though both the accused cops were placed under suspension and a case was also registered against them in this regard but sources maintained that woman was upset over illegal detention of her husband since Sunday night, had made self-immolation bid outside the police station. Senior police officers who take first hand information from district police chief of Barabanki, had reportedly ordered a high-level probe into the incident.
Reports said that the cops of the Kothi police station in Barabanki, had picked up a man who was accused of opening firing along with two others, over an alleged case of eve-teasing case reported Gaha hamlet of Kothi, on Sunday evening. Soon after the police brought and detained the above person in the name of grilling in the above mentioned matter, his wife pleading innocence of her husband, had knocked the door of the senior officers to get him released.
Reports further said that senior officers instructed station officer of Kothi police station, Ram Saheb Singh Yadav, to free the person if he was not involved in the case as claimed by the woman. The said woman claimed that when she went to the Kothi police station to request the cops to free her husband, they abused, humiliated and forcibly turned her out of the police station compound.
later the woman, who sat outside the police station all through the night in the hope that the cops would show some sympathy and release her husband, made a bizarre move on Monday morning. She reportedly sprinkle kerosene oil on her clothes and set herself fire to commit suicide be immolating herself in-front of Kothi police station. She was immediately rushed to the district hospital from where she was referred to Trauma Centre here in lucknow in a serious condition. She reportedly accused the cops of trying to burn her alive after she resisted rape attempt made by them.
Superintendent of Police of Barabanki, Abdul Hamid, who get a case registered against SO of Kothi police station, Ram Saheb Singh Yadav and Akhilesh Rai, and also placed them under suspension claimed that if charges are found to be true than the cops will be also arrested. He also deployed additional police force in the area to avert any untoward situation in wake of growing anger amongst the local villagers.