Spate of rapes in UP: Schoolgirl kills self as cops sit on complaint

POSTED ON OCTOBER 8, 2022

Uttar Pradesh has been rocked by a series of rapes during the last 24 hours. In one case, the victim was strangled to death after rape, and in another a girl committed suicide after the police did not act against the culprits for a fortnight. In the third case, a schoolgirl was gangraped, while another schoolgirl escaped rape bid.

In the first case, a 19-year-old BSC student was allegedly raped inside her house and then murdered. The rapists strangled her and hanged her body before fleeing the Sheesham area of Mainpuri. A heavy police force was deployed in the village.

According to information, the girl was alone in the house at the time of the incident. Her father had gone to the city and her mother to Agra for work, while her 13-year-old sister had gone to attend coaching classes.

Taking advantage of the situation, Pushpendra Lodhi, of the same village, entered the house and raped her. As per information, when the girl threatened to complain, Pushpendra strangled her and then hanged her body. He then closed the door of the house from outside and fled.

In yet another case reported two days ago from Kannauj, a youth identified as Arif posed as Amit and befriended a Hindu girl by promising her a job and then raped her.

Earlier on September 15, two teenage Dalit sisters were found hanging from a tree in Lakhimpur Kheri after being allegedly raped and murdered. The police had arrested six people in connection with the case. The girls were lured to the farm and raped by Sohail and Junaid. After the girls asked the accused to marry them, Sohail, Hafizul, and Junaid killed them. They then called Karimuddin and Arif and hanged the girls from a tree to make it look a suicide case.

Courtesy : Dailypioneer