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  • Four men booked for gang-raping 35-year-old woman following court orders in Uttar Pradesh

    By PTI
    CHITRAKOOT: Police have registered a case against four people for allegedly raping a 35-year-old Dalit woman in Chitrakoot district in Uttar Pradesh, following a court’s orders.

    SHO of Karvi police station Virendra Tripathi on Saturday said that in compliance with the orders of the court, a case of gangrape was registered against four persons under various sections of the IPC and the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.

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    A woman working at a government hospital has been made an accused for hatching conspiracy.

    The accused are yet to be arrested.

    The SHO said the woman accused on November 9, 2020 had taken the Dalit woman to Chitrakoot and then to Devangana Marg where she was raped by the four men.

    The SHO said the Dalit woman has alleged that when she had gone to lodge a complaint at Kotwali police station, she was turned away.

  • 50-year-old woman gang-raped, murdered in UP’s Badaun; priest among three booked

    By PTI
    BUDAUN: A 50-year-old woman was gang-raped and brutally murdered allegedly by a priest and two others in Badaun district in Uttar Pradesh, police said on Wednesday.

    The attack on the woman took place on Sunday when she had gone to a temple, they said, adding that all three accused have been booked, and two of them arrested on Tuesday.

    Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Sankalp Sharma said “the post-mortem report confirms rape, and there are injuries in her private parts and a fracture in the leg”.

    He added that the station house officer of Ughaiti police station has been suspended for laxity in the case.

    “On Sunday, the 50-year-old woman, who had gone to a temple, was found dead under mysterious circumstances. Family members of the woman have accused the temple mahant and his aides of raping and murdering her. Based on this, a case was registered against the accused. Two of the accused persons were arrested on Tuesday night, while the mahant is still absconding,” he said.

    Four teams have been formed to nab the priest, the SSP said.