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Tag: Rapes in Uttar Pradesh

  • SP, BSP district chiefs among seven held for 17-year-old girl’s rape in Uttar Pradesh

    By PTI

    LALTIPUR: Seven people, including the district presidents of the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party, have so far been arrested in connection with the rape of a 17-year-old girl here, police said on Saturday.

    Superintendent of Police Nikhil Pathak said the arrests were made following the girl’s complaint that she was raped for five years in different parts of the city and named 25 people in her complaint along with three unknown persons.

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    A case was registered at Sadar Kotwali police station on October 12 against 25 people — including the victim’s father and uncle — and three unknown persons.

    The SP said a hotel in Mirzapur district was raided on Friday from where Tilak Yadav and Deepak Ahirvar, the SP and BSP district chiefs of Lalitpur respectively, and an engineer named Mahendra Dubey were arrested.

    The three were produced before a local court, which sent them to 14-day judicial custody.

    Earlier, four people were arrested in connection with the case.

  • Newly-wed woman alleges gangrape by husband, brothers-in law in Uttar Pradesh

    By PTI
    BUDAUN: A newly-wed woman, battling critical injuries in a hospital here, has alleged that she was gangraped by her husband and two brothers-in-law and brutally tortured by other members of his family over demands for dowry, police said on Saturday.

    The husband she had married to only for three days has been arrested and cases filed against seven people, officials said.

    The 20-year-old, admitted at the district hospital here, alleged that she was sexually assaulted, her private parts burnt and was also tortured with a stick.

    Detailing her trauma, she also alleged that there were attempts to make her have a cold drink laced with poison.

    On receiving the information, the woman’s father reached her house with a police team and admitted her to the hospital.

    According to her complaint at the Zarifnagar police station, the woman from Kotwali Sahaswan area was married to a resident of Usmanpur locality in Zarifnagar on June 22.

    Budaun Senior Superintendent of Police Sankalp Sharma told reporters on Friday night that further action in the case will be taken based on investigation and medical examination of the woman.