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  • 14-year-old girl gang-raped in Uttar Pradesh’s Firozabad, 3 detained 

    By PTI

    FIROZABAD: A 14-year-old girl was allegedly raped by three men in a village here on Diwali night, police said on Monday.

    The teenager was forcibly taken to an agricultural field by three men when she was lighting earthen lamps outside her home on Thursday, according to a complaint lodged by the girl’s father.

    Superintendent of Police MC Mishra said the girl was recovered late in the night and she told her family members about the rape.

    An FIR was registered against Dharmveer, Naresh and Ashish on Sunday and the three of them were detained the next day.

    The police are recording the statement of the girl, Tundla Circle Officer Abhishek Srivastava said.

  • Key accused in Dalit woman’s gangrape in UP’s Jewar arrested 

    By PTI

    NOIDA: Police in Uttar Pradesh’s Gautam Buddh Nagar district on Wednesday said they have arrested the key accused in a case of gangrape of a 55-year-old Dalit woman in Jewar three days ago.

    The woman was allegedly raped by four men, who dragged her to the open fields near her village at gunpoint and took turns to force themselves on her on Sunday morning.

    One of the accused was arrested on Monday.

    The incident has snowballed into a political controversy with opposition parties such as the BSP and the Congress hitting out at the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh over the issue of women safety.

    “Accused Mahendra was arrested on Wednesday from a spot near his village in Jewar. He was picked up by a joint team of the Jewar police, the Special Operations Group and the SWAT,” a police spokesperson said.

    “A reward of Rs 25,000 was announced on information leading to the arrest of Mahendra in the wake of the incident in which another person has already been arrested and sent to jail,” he added.

    An FIR in connection with the incident has been lodged under Indian Penal Code sections 376D (gangrape), 352 (punishment for assault or criminal force otherwise than on grave provocation) and 506 (criminal intimidation), police said.

    Sections under the stringent Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 have also been invoked in the case, they added.

    Mahendra, according to the police, was also booked for house trespassing and theft in the past. He is the only named accused in the FIR.

    Of the three other accused, one was arrested on Monday after the rape survivor identified him from a picture shown to her by the police.

  • Two girls taken hostage, gang-raped in UP cyber cafe by four men

    By PTI

    KANNAUJ (Uttar Pradesh): Two girls were allegedly held hostage and gang-raped in a cyber cafe here when they had gone to get some documents photocopied, police said on Monday.

    Four men took hostage of the two girl students at the cafe on September 13 and one of the accused also recorded the act, police said.

    The accused also extorted Rs 10,000 from the girls, threatening to circulate the video.

    Superintendent of Police Prashant Verma said a case was registered at Sadar Kotwali on Sunday against six people, including a woman, based on the complaint of one of the girls.

    The 17-year-old student in her complaint said she had gone to the cyber cafe along with her friend at noon on September 13 when four people, who were already present there, raped them.

    One of the accused also made a video of the act and handed it over to his brother-in-law who extorted Rs 10,000 by threatening to make it viral, police said.

    The girl said she and her friend stole money from their houses to give it to the accused, police said. It was the missing money which alerted their family members after which the incident came to light, they said.

    The girls have been sent to the district hospital for medical examination.

    Police are raiding all possible places, the SP said, adding in the initial investigation, the police have found signs of prostitution from the cafe.

    The victim had said that after the incident, the wife of one of the accused made her phone calls pressurising her into prostitution and some neighbours have also spoken about presence of young girls there, he added.

    The SP said efforts are on to nab the accused.

  • 17-year-old girl held captive, gangraped by three men in UP’s Mahoba

    By PTI

    MAHOBA: A 17-year-old girl was allegedly gangraped by three men who kept her locked in a room for a day, police here said on Saturday.

    The teen, who works in a private company, was sexually assaulted on Thursday and made her escape on Friday while she was being taken to another place, police said.

    Efforts are on to nab the accused who fled the area.

    On Thursday, she was taken by a man, an employee at a nearby dak bungalow, to a room in a deserted area where she was raped by him and two of his friends, Station House Officer at Mahoba’s Kotwali police station Balram Singh said.

    The girl also alleged that they made a video of her, he said.

    The men locked her inside after raping her and went out, he said.

    On Friday, they came back.

    While one of them was taking her to another place on a motorcycle, she jumped off and shouted for help.

    Police registered a case on Friday on the complaint of the girl and her family members, Singh said.

    The girl has been sent for medical examination.

  • Four held for raping minor in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr 

    By PTI
    BULANDSHAHR (Uttar Pradesh): Four men were arrested for allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl in a village here, police said on Wednesday.

    The incident took place on July 4 when the girl had gone to an agricultural field.

    The accused had also taken obscene photographs of the minor and threatened her with dire consequences if she told anyone about the incident, the police said.

    Based on a complaint lodged by the minor’s mother on July 27, a case was registered against the four men and they were arrested on Wednesday, the police added.

  • Badaun gangrape case: Priest, other accused remanded to police custody

    By PTI
    BADAUN (UP): A temple priest and his accomplices accused of raping and killing a 50-year-old woman here have been remanded to one-day police custody by a local court.

    Circle officer of Bilsi, Anirudh Singh, said on Wednesday that, “The three accused persons in the Ughaiti incident have already been sent to jail. But there are some questions which need to be answered. For this, it is necessary to take the three accused on remand”.

    A request through video conferencing was made to the court of the chief judicial magistrate for police remand on Tuesday and the request was granted.

    The family members of the woman had accused the temple priest and his accomplices of raping and killing the woman, an anganwadi worker.

    A case was registered against the accused and two of them identified as Vedram and Jaspal were arrested on January 5. Later the priest was also arrested.

    The incident triggered an opposition outcry and a comparison with the 2012 Nirbhaya case in Delhi after the post-mortem report confirmed rape, broken rib cage, a fractured leg and other injuries.

    Budaun CMO, Dr Yashpal Singh, had said that the woman died of trauma and excessive bleeding.