Victim’s family on hunger strike unto death, till guilty are caught.
By Tathagata Mitra
BANGALORE: Rape, murder and in general violence against women seems to be on a ferocious spree in the largest state of the country, Uttar Pradesh. It hasn’t been two weeks since two Dalit girls were raped and hung from a tree in Badaun district, and now comes yet another horrific news: another Dalit girl was raped and murdered just two days before her wedding in Jaunpur district. She was 19 years old.
The girl in question hailed from the Badhuana village which comes under the Baksha police station. The girl was to get married on Thursday, but was found near her house with her throat slit open on Wednesday morning.
Medical reports suggest that she was raped before being murdered and that it was most probably more than one man who raped her. The detailed medical report was still to come in.
The girl’s family has gone on a hunger strike unto death unless the guilty is caught by the police.
Only last Saturday, a 20-year-old girl was found raped and murdered in the same district of Bareilly.
Meanwhile, in another part of the state, Kanchapura village of Bhojipura tehsil in the district of Bareilly, a minor was raped on gunpoint on Tuesday afternoon. Mercifully, she was left alive.
The victim and her sister went to nearby fields sometime around noon. While her sister stood mid-way as guard, the victim went deeper, to relieve herself. It was then that she saw Rahul, the accused waiting for her with a tamancha (country made pistol), writes The Times of India.
She was then raped and afterwards threatened against reporting it. Rahul is on the lam, but the police have lodged an FIR under section 365 of the IPC and PASCO (Protection of Child from Sexual Offence) Act.
The investigating officer Digamber Khuswaha told the Times, “The girl and the accused (both residents of the same village) had known each other for some time. She was pressing him to marry her but the accused was avoiding it. This could be a reason behind the incident.”
While the women of the state, especially in the rural areas suffer, the people wait and watch, for justice to commence.