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  • Man allegedly raped Dalit woman for two years in UP 

    By PTI
    BANDA (UP): A 22-year-old Dalit woman was allegedly raped for two years by a man on the false promise of marriage here, police said on Friday.

    The woman, who hailed from Mahoba district, lodged a complaint on Thursday evening at City Kotwali police station following which an FIR was registered against the accused.

    She alleged that Utkarsh Sachan (25), who lived in her neighbourhood, had been raping her since the past two years on the promise of marriage, Station House Officer Jaishyam Shukla said.

    He also threatened to kill her when she finally asked him to marry her, Shukla said.

    The accused, who hailed from Hamirpur, had shifted to Kanpur about a month ago after he got a job there.

    The woman was sent for medical examination and teams were sent to Hamirpur and Kanpur to nab the accused, the SHO said.

  • Sixteen-year-old kidnapped, gang-raped to stop father from contesting polls in UP

    By PTI
    BARABANKI: A 16-year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped and gang-raped by four people while she was returning from school in a village here, police said on Thursday.

    Her father, who is contesting the upcoming panchayat elections, has alleged that the incident, which took place on Tuesday, was aimed at dissuading him from entering the poll fray, they said.

    Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Manoj Pandey said the victim was sent for a medical examination, and a case was registered based on a complaint lodged by her father.

    Two of the accused have been detained and are being interrogated, the ASP said.

    The girl’s father has further claimed that he had been under pressure, and was also offered money, to not enter the poll fray.

    But as he did not pay heed to any of it, Akash Verma, Lalji Verma, Sachin Verma and Shivam Verma kidnapped his daughter and raped her, he said in the complaint.

  • Man kills 4-year-old girl during rape bid; victim’s father commits suicide

    By PTI
    SILVASSA; A 30-year-old man slit the throat of a four-year-old girl when she resisted his bid to rape her at his flat in a village in Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli (DNH), stuffed her body in a sack and threw it into a narrow shaft attached to the toilet of his flat, police said on Saturday, adding the accused was arrested.

    Unable to bear the trauma, the victim’s father killed himself by consuming a disinfectant, a day after the incident on Saturday, he said.

    “The incident occurred on Friday afternoon after the accused Santosh Rajat lured the victim who was playing outside her home in Naroli village,” DNH superintendent of police Hareshwar Swami said.

    He said Rajat took the girl to his apartment and tried to rape her, but when she started crying, he slit her throat with a sharp weapon, stuffed her body in a sack and threw it in the narrow shaft attached to the toilet of the flat by breaking the window.

    After family members of the victim lodged a missing person’s complaint with Naroli police station, the police launched a search and scanned around 40 flats in the residential building where the girl lived, he said.

    “During the search operation, the police found blood stains in the bathroom of Rajat’s apartment. A sack with the body was found in the shaft attached to the toilet,” Swami said.

    During interrogation, Rajat “confessed” to luring the girl to his flat and trying to sexually assault her, the SP said.

    Unable to bear the loss, the girl’s father consumed a disinfectant after seeing his daughter’s body, the SP said, adding that he was rushed to a hospital where he died on Saturday morning.

    The accused, who hails from Dhanbad in Jharkhand, was living in Dadra and Nagar Haveli for the last four years, working in different factories, he said.

    A case was registered against the accused under sections 364 (abduction), 376 (rape), 377 (unnatural offences) and 302 (murder) of the IPC apart from provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, he said.

  • Muzaffarnagar horror: Four-year-old raped by stepfather

    By PTI
    MUZAFFARNAGAR: A four-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her 50-year-old stepfather in a village in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar district, police said on Friday.

    The alleged incident took place on Thursday evening, Ratanpuri Station House Officer (SHO) Vindhyachal Tiwari said.

    Police have registered a case of rape based on the complaint of the girl’s uncle and arrested her stepfather, the SHO said.

    According to the complaint lodged by the girl’s uncle, the accused took her to a nearby field and raped her.

    Several villagers gathered outside the house of the accused as the information about the incident spread.

    They demanded action against the accused.

    Soon after, police arrested the accused, whom the girl’s mother had married two years ago.

    She is her daughter from the first marriage.

    According to police, the girl’s mother had left her with her stepfather during the lockdown.

  • MP man gets life imprisonment for raping five-year-old daughter

    By PTI
    BHOPAL: A special court in Madhya Pradesh’s Bhopal district has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for raping his five-year-old daughter.

    Special Additional Sessions Judge Kumudini Patel convicted the 40-year-old accused under section 376 (rape) and other relevant provisions of the Indian Penacl Code (IPC) and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, the prosecution said on Thursday.

    The court also imposed a fine of Rs 3,000 on the convict, it was stated.

    In its judgement on Wednesday, the court observed, “It is the social and legal duty of the father to protect his children, but this incident is totally against it.

    “The accused has not only acted against the nature, society and system of law, but also raped his own innocent five-year-old daughter who did not even have any knowledge about physical relations, and committed a painful and heinous act with her.”

    The incident came to light in May, 2019 when the girl’s mother reported the matter to the police, the prosecution said.

    According to the police complaint, the girl had confided in her mother that her father abused her whenever the woman was away at work.

    When the woman confronted her husband, he quarrelled with her and attempted to commit suicide by pouring petrol on himself.

    The prosecution stated that the girl’s medical reports also confirmed rape and injuries to private parts.

    The girl deposed against her father in the court, following which he was awarded life imprisonment on three counts, it was stated.

  • Day after lodging complaint about minor daughter’s rape, UP man dies in ‘accident’

    Express News Service
    LUCKNOW: The father of a minor girl, who was allegedly gangraped by four men in UP’s Kanpur district, was killed after he was hit by an unidentified truck on Wednesday.

    Expressing doubts about the accident, which came a day after they lodged a complaint about the rape, the girl’s family said the rape accused could be behind it.

    They pointed out that the father of one of the accused is a police official. 

    The prime accused in the rape case, Golu Yadav, son of a police sub-inspector posted in Kannauj, was arrested earlier and efforts were underway to nab his brother Saurabh and friend Deepu, Kanpur Deputy IG Preetinder Singh said.

    While the medical examination of the rape survivor was going on at the community health centre (CHC) in Ghatampur, her father went out for a cup of tea and was hit by a truck, Singh said.

    The minor’s father was taken to the Lala Lajpat Rai (LLR) Hospital, where he succumbed to the injuries.

    Superintendent of Police (Rural) Brajesh Srivastava said an FIR was registered on charges of murder against Devendra Yadav, the father of the accused.

    “The accident took place when the medical examination of the victim was underway and the father stepped out for a cup of tea. After some time, we got to know that he was hit by a truck. He was immediately taken to a Kanpur hospital, but was declared brought dead. We have filed an accident case and are probing,” said Kanpur DIG Preetinder Singh. 

    The truck driver and one of the rape accused have been arrested, he added. 

    The family members of the deceased alleged in the FIR that Devendra Yadav hatched a conspiracy to kill him and make it look like a road accident.

    Five police teams, including surveillance personnel, have been formed to nab Saurabh and Deepu.

    The probe has been handed over to Ghatampur Station House Officer Dhanesh Kumar, who has been asked to investigate the charges and work out the case at the earliest, the police said.

    The action against the SI would be decided only after the probe confirms his involvement in the alleged murder, they said.

    According to the police, the 13-year-old girl was allegedly raped by Golu Yadav and Deepu in Sajeti area here on Monday.

    The Class 8 student had gone out to collect fodder for cattle on Monday when she was abducted by the duo and taken to a secluded place where she was allegedly raped.

    Saurabh had allegedly threatened the minor of dire consequences if she told anyone about the incident, the police said.

    After the accident, locals blocked the Kanpur-Sagar highway for five hours demanding a swift action. UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath announced Rs 5 lakh to the girl’s family.  

    UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has announced a compensation of Rs five lakhs from the CM’s relief fund to the family, while Rs five lakhs more would be provided under accident insurance scheme, Kanpur District Magistrate Alok Tiwari said.

    It has also been decided to provide three bighas of land on lease to the victim’s family, the DM added.

    Kanpur Additional DG Bhanu Bhaskar told PTI over phone that directions have been issued to swiftly crack the case of the rape survivor’s father’s death on the basis of “evidence” and ensure the arrest of the remaining accused in the gang rape case.

    Officials have also been instructed to book the accused persons under the National Security Act and the Gangsters Act, the ADG said.

    Kanpur IG Mohit Agarwal also issued a statement, stating both the cases will be investigated swiftly and no one will be spared.

    “The guilty will face tough legal action. We are considering taking action under the National Security Act,” the IG added.

    Meanwhile, the girl’s relatives and outraged locals blocked traffic on the Kanpur-Sagar Highway in protest.

    The girl’s grandfather has alleged that his son was murdered in complicity with the police.

    (With PTI Inputs)

  • UP: Rape survivor lodges case after 27 years as son enquires about his father

    By Express News Service
    LUCKNOW: A woman has lodged an FIR against two men who had allegedly raped her 27 years ago in  Shahjahanpur, UP.

    The survivor, 40, took the step apparently after her son enquired about his father.

    According to the FIR, the incident took place in 1994 when the survivor was 13 years old and lived in Shahjahanpur city at a relative’s house.

    One Naki Hasan, who lived in the complainant’s locality, had entered the house when she was alone and raped her, SP (City) Sanjay Kumar told the media.

    The complainant has also accused Hasan’s younger brother, Guddu, of raping her, said the SP.

    The survivor’s relatives came to know about the assault when she conceived a child, said a relative of the woman while interacting with media persons.

    Local sources said upon seeing her medical condition, her immediate family members had decided not to pursue the case, and instead sent her to live with another relative where she gave birth to a son. The child was later left for adoption.

    Years later, when the mother and son united, the latter asked the victim about his father. The survivor then decided to pursue the case on the insistence of her son, said sources.

    “Her son is very supportive of her and has encouraged her to lodge a complaint,” said a relative, adding the woman has demanded that Naki Hasan and his brother Guddu should be arrested and a DNA test done to ascertain paternity. 

  • 15-year-old raped by nine people over eight days in Rajasthan’s Jhalawar

    By PTI
    KOTA: A 15-year-old girl was allegedly raped at separate places by at least nine people over eight days in Rajasthan’s Jhalawar, police said on Monday.

    Two of the accused are minors.

    The girl somehow managed to reach her home on Friday after which a complaint was lodged.

    Four of the accused, including the two minors, have been held, police said.

    Suket DSP Manjeet Singh said the girl alleged that her friend Bulbul and another youth, Chothmal, on February 25 took her to Jhalawar City on the pretext of buying a schoolbag for her.

    He, however, said the girl is a school dropout.

    She alleged that two to three other people joined them at a park where she was drugged and raped by them.

    She alleged that at least nine people at different times and separate places in Jhalawar raped her over eight days.

    The DSP said a medical examination of the girl was conducted immediately and four of the accused were held.

    Two of them are minor and attempts are under way to arrest the rest, he said.

  • Don’t scandalise it, BCI urges activists as it comes in support of SC over rape remarks

    By PTI
    NEW DELHI: Coming in support of the Supreme Court, the Bar Council of India on Thursday asked activists, who wrote to Chief Justice S A Bobde urging him to withdraw remarks made in a rape case, not to “scandalise” the highest judiciary and take “political mileage” of its proceedings.

    The apex bar body, in a resolution adopted during a meeting, termed the letter written by CPI(M) politburo member Brinda Karat to Chief Justice of India (CJI) Bobde as a “malicious attack” on the judiciary and said the freedom of speech and expression cannot be stretched to the extent of “maligning and weakening” the institution.

    On Wednesday, an apex court official had said that the query of a three-judge bench, headed by the CJI, asking a rape accused whether he would marry the victim was based on ‘judicial records’ containing an undertaking of the man that he would marry the minor girl, a relative, after she attains 18 years of age.

    The remarks by the CJI headed bench came on Monday during the hearing of a plea of the accused, who had challenged the cancellation of his anticipatory bail by the Bombay High Court’s Aurangabad bench.

    The official had also termed the criticism by social and political activists as unfair, and referred to the judicial records of the case.

    However, the remarks invited sharp reactions with Karat writing to the CJI and urging him to withdraw his remarks by saying courts should not give an impression of supporting such “retrograde” approaches.

    Several women’s rights activists, eminent citizens, intellectuals, writers and artistes had also written an open letter to the CJI demanding an apology and retraction of his remarks.

    The Bar Council of India (BCI), through its chairperson Manan Kumar Mishra, said that it decries the practice of political and social activists making comments without appreciating the factual background of the case leading to queries by benches during proceedings.

    “Please don’t try to scandalise the institution, don’t take political mileage from court proceedings of the highest judiciary; the country will not forgive you.

    India is a vast country, so, the signature move of a few hundreds of persons is meaningless and worthless,” the resolution said.

    “In the recent past, we have seen development of a new trend with regard to reaction of some people against comments and observations of Supreme Court judges in the course of judicial proceedings even when such comments are not part of judicial orders,” the BCI said.

    The bar council it its resolution also mentioned that a handful of politicians and some “so-called” social activists are feeling elevated by criticising and making reckless comments against judges through social media and print media.

    “In our opinion, such attempts are direct attack on the independence of the judiciary. It has become a fashion for some motivated people to make personal aspersions against our judges. If this trend is allowed to continue, the institution will lose its sanctity,” it said.

    The resolution said writing letters to the CJI or any judge and making such communication public through media are “acts of gross contempt”.

    “We deprecate such actions of Ms. Brinda Karat and similar acts of chief minister of Andhra Pradesh against the senior-most judge of the Supreme Court,” it said.

    The resolution said every comment of a apex court judge is being projected in such a manner as if the judge has committed some offence by making the comment in the court.

    “Why any comment (which is not a part of a judicial order or judgment) should be allowed to be made a subject for attacking the judges/institution without any basis? Comments made by the Judges, not resulting in their orders, have no legal sanctity, why then to raise a hue and cry on such comments,” it said.

    The BCI also referred to the facts of cases in which queries, which later invited criticism, were posed by the apex court.

    “Unfortunately, some motivated people with a specific agenda are deliberately concealing the net result of this case, as if the court has granted some substantial relief to the accused,” it said.

  • ‘SC’s query to rape accused on marrying girl was based on judicial records’: Source

    The remarks by a three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde on Monday during the hearing of a plea of the accused had invited sharp reactions.