Rape victims’ kin protest cops’ inaction

The family members of the four women, who were allegedly robbed and raped off the Yamuna Expressway while on their way to Bulandshahr in May, and villagers, protested against the delay in the arrest of the accused, in the
Jewar area of Greater Noida, on Wednesday.

Nearly 200 people, with black arm bands, marched towards the Jewar police station from the victims’ house to demand justice in the two-month-old case.

Accusing the police of inaction, a family member said, “The police have not been successful in getting any breakthrough in the case. It has been more than two months now. It is a shame that the cops are not able to find even a single clue about the criminals. We are deeply saddened at the turn of the events. We are ruined. We demand that the police arrest the criminals, or we will do something to ourselves.”

On May 25, eight members of the family were on their way to Bulandshahar to visit a relative admitted in hospital when they were attacked by a group of criminals. The assailants shot dead a man and raped four of the women at gunpoint on the Jewar-Bulandshahar Road off the Yamuna Expressway in Gautam Budh Nagar. They then fled with their cash and valuables.

Despite several promises by its senior officers, the UP Police have failed to find single a clue about the accused. “We are just getting assurances but no action hass been taken. We feel ashamed of the law,” the relative added.