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  • UP: Man gets 14 years jail term for raping minor

    By PTI

    MUZAFFARNAGAR: A special POCSO court here has sentenced a man to 14 years of imprisonment for raping a 16-year-old girl in 2019.

    Sanjiv Kumar Tiwari, the special judge, also imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on Teenu, the convict, after holding him guilty under Indian Penal Code (IPC) Section 376 (punishment for rape), and Sections 3 and 4 (penetrative sexual assault) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.

    Teenu will have to serve an additional jail term of six months in case he fails to pay the fine, the judge said.

    According to Manmohan Verma, the special POCSO advocate, the incident took place on March 2, 2019.

    The man raped the girl when she ventured out of the house to relieve herself.

  • Rape-accused wanted in Uttar Pradesh traced to Maharashtra

    By PTI

    THANE: Police here in Maharashtra have arrested a man who was on the run for last two years after a rape case was registered against him at Raebareli in Uttar Pradesh, an official said on Thursday.

    A case had been registered in Raebareli against 26-year-old accused for allegedly raping and threatening a widow from his village there, said senior police inspector Sital Raut from Shanti Nagar police station in Thane’s Bhiwandi town.

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    The Raebareli police recently got a tip-off and based on the mobile phone location of the accused, came to know that he was in the hiding in the powerloom town of Bhiwandi.

    They sought help from the Shanti Nagar police, who traced the accused on Wednesday and arrested him, the official said.

  • 17-year-old gang-raped in UP’s Muzaffarnagar, video shared on social media

    By PTI

    MUZAFFARNAGAR: A 17-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped by two men who recorded a video of the crime and shared it on social media, police said on Monday.

    The incident took place on Sunday in a village under Bhopa Police Station, SHO Subhash Babu said, adding a case was registered against the accused, Shubham and Ashish, who are absconding.

    According to complaint lodged by the victim’s mother, the accused lured the girl into a garden with guava trees on the pretext of offering her the fruit and instead gang-raped her.

    The incident came to light after the video of the crime was circulated on social media, police said.

    In a separate incident, a man was booked for allegedly trying to rape a woman in a village under Kotwali Police Station area.

    The accused, Bobby, tried to rape the woman who was in her field on Sunday.

    However, she raised an alarm and he fled, they said.

  • Uttar Pradesh man gets 20 years in jail for raping mentally unsound woman

    By PTI

    MATHURA: A court here has sentenced a 47-year-old man to 20 years in jail for raping an 18-year-old mentally unsound woman whose mother used to occasionally hire his services as a driver, a government counsel said Saturday.

    Additional district government counsel Subhash Chaturvedi also said the court imposed a fine of Rs 2.20 lakh on the convict and ordered that he will have to spend additional time in jail if he fails to furnish the amount.

    The ADGC said the incident happened past midnight on July 9, 2018, when the woman’s mother and her two relatives were carrying out Goverdhan Parikrama (circumambulation).

    The woman was also walking with them in the religious exercise, but she returned to their car as she felt tired.

    All of them, including the driver, had travelled to Mathura from their native Etawah in the car that belonged the woman’s mother.

    When the woman arrived at the car, the driver was there.

    The ADGC said the driver raped her inside the car and also took her mobile phone.

    The victim later narrated the entire incident to her mother and they confronted the driver, who confessed his guilt on July 11, 2018, the ADGC said.

    The woman’s mother then filed an FIR at the Mahila Thana (women police station) under various sections of the Indian Penal Code.

    IPC section 376 (rape) was also added later based on the woman’s statement.

    “The order passed by Amar Singh, additional special judge POCSO Act, has sentenced Raghavendra Tewari to imprisonment of 20 years with a fine of Rs 2.20 lakh,” Chaturvedi said.

    The special Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act court is also hearing cases of crime against women.

    The defense counsel urged the judge to show leniency in awarding the punishment, saying the convict had to marry his two daughters.

    However, the ADGC requested the judge to award the accused exemplary punishment as he had raped a mentally unsound woman.

    The judge awarded him 20 years in jail and imposed Rs 2.20 lakh fine, saying he will have to spend five more years in prison if he fails to deposit the fine.

    In that case, the government will give the amount to the victim’s family as compensation, the ADGC said.

  • Take Rs 50,000, hit accused with shoe: UP panchayat tells girl to settle alleged rape case

    By PTI
    GORAKHPUR: A panchayat in Uttar Pradesh’s Maharajganj district has asked a minor girl who was allegedly raped by a boy from her village to settle the matter with him by taking Rs 50,000 from him and hitting him five times with a shoe.

    Not satisfied with the panchayat’s decision, the girl’s family lodged a police complaint, officials said.

    The mother of the girl, a resident of Kothibhar police station area, complained to the village panchayat on June 23 about the alleged rape of her daughter.

    The panchayat asked the girl to settle the matter with the boy accused of raping her by taking Rs 50,000 from him and slapping him five times with a shoe in front of the village council, the police officials said.

    On June 25, the girl’s family lodged a complaint at Kothibhari police as they were not satisfied with the panchayat’s decision, they said.

    After news about the panchayat’s decision went viral on social media, Maharajganj Superintendent of Police Pradeep Gupta on Tuesday directed officials to get the girl’s medical examination done and record her statement.

    “If rape is reported in the medical test, a case will be registered under the relevant provisions of law and further action will be taken,” he said.

  • 19-year-old gang-raped in UP’s Bareilly, three of six accused arrested

    By PTI
    BAREILLY: Three men have been arrested in connection with the alleged gangrape of a 19-year-old Dalit woman in this Uttar Pradesh district, police said on Monday.

    Senior Superintendent of Police Rohit Singh Sajwan said two of the accused were arrested on Sunday, while one was held on Monday.

    The incident occurred in the Izzatnagar police station area of Bareilly city on May 31.

    The woman, along with two of her male friends, had gone to the area on a scooty.

    The six accused against whom a case has been registered allegedly caught hold of her, took turns to rape her and then beat her up, while her friends were chased away, police said.

    Initially, the woman did not narrate her ordeal to her family members but later, told her sister about it.

    A case of gangrape was registered against the six accused on Saturday.

    Police said the accused arrested on Monday had intercepted the woman and her two friends on the day of the incident and informed the five others.

    Those arrested on Sunday have been sent to jail, while the one held on Monday is being interrogated, they added.

  • Man kills minor girl, assaults her cousin after failed rape bid in UP’s Shahjahanpur

    Express News Service
    LUCKNOW: Police arrested a 35-year-old man two days after he allegedly killed a four-year-old girl and left her seven-year-old cousin unconscious in a field after a failed attempt to rape the girls in UP’s Shahjahanpur district on Monday afternoon.

    As per the Shajahanpur police sources, a person named Anil aka Chameli Kanjad was arrested in connection with the attack on two minors. The police claimed that the accused had admitted that he lured the girls to the fields with a packet of biscuits and tried to rape them. He attacked the girls with an iron rod when they began to cry.

    The body of one of the girls was found in the field on Monday and her seven-year-old cousin, who sustained several injuries, was found 100 metres away. Her condition is stated to be critical. 

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    An FIR under IPC Sections 302 (murder) and 307 (attempt to murder) has been registered. However, following the arrest, Sections 376 (rape) of the IPC and Sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act have been added to the original FIR.

    Police said the accused used to frequently visit the girls’ native village for killing wild animals and selling the carcasses.

    On the fateful day, the accused was allegedly passing through the village on a bicycle when he spotted the girls bathing near a primary school. He lured them with two packets of biscuits.

    As per a police officer, the accused Anil took the girls to a secluded spot and tried to rape the elder girl. When she resisted, the four-year-old started crying and it infuriated the accused. He got panicked and hit the elder sister with a gardening tool following which she fell unconscious. While he was trying to strangle her, the younger one ran to save her life. But the accused chased and killed her by hitting her on the head.

  • Set on fire after failed gang rape attempt, says UP girl

    By PTI
    SHAHJAHANPUR: A college student who was found lying without clothes and severely burnt along a national highway in Uttar Pradesh’s Shahjahanpur district has claimed she was set on fire after a failed attempt to gang-rape her, police said on Wednesday.

    According to Superintendent of Police S Anand, the girl told investigators that three people tried to rape her in a field near Rai Kheda village on Monday and when they did not succeed, they poured kerosene and set her on fire.

    The police officer, however, added that she frequently changed her statements and also said that she was not aware of how she reached the hospital from the third floor of her college building.

    The BA second-year student was admitted to a hospital in the district and later referred to Lucknow.

    Dr SC Saundriyal, director of Syama Prasad Mookerjee Civil Hospital, Lucknow, where the girl is undergoing treatment for 72 per cent burns, told PTI, “Her condition is stable right now.”

    Earlier, reports said she suffered 60 per cent burns.

    In CCTV footage, the girl — a student of a college run by a trust of former union minister Swami Chinmayanand — was seen coming down alone from the third floor, the police said.

    “Investigations with the help of CCTV footage have found that the girl went out of the college campus from a broken outer wall about 20 minutes after entering the premises and was seen walking alone on a canal road,” Anand said.

    Prior to this, the girl could be seen talking to her friends outside a classroom and visiting a library, the SP said.

    Three teams led by deputy superintendents of police (Dy SPs) and a Special Operations Group (SOG) team have been deployed.

    Besides, another team led by a Dy SP with five policemen is present at SPM Civil Hospital.

    After recording the girl’s statement in Lucknow, the investigating officer will take up the matter, Anand said.

    Over a dozen students of the college, including her friends, have been questioned.

    The girl had called a person of her village on mobile phone on the day of the incident and he has also been questioned, the SP said.

    According to Asif Ali, a resident of the village where the student was found lying without clothes, the villagers had covered her with a stole before calling the police.

    The SP said in the field where she was lying, some tumblers were found but there was no trace of liquor.

    The girl, a native of a village in the Jalalabad police station area, studies in Swami Shukdevanand Post Graduate College run by Mumukshu Ashram of Chinmayanand.

    The ashram was at the center of a controversy in 2019 after a female student of a law college run by it accused Chinmayanand of sexual assault.

    However, the student later withdrew her charges against Chinmayanand, who was arrested in the case in September 2019 and released on bail nearly five months later.