A minor girl was raped and singed with cigarette butts by two men in Uttar Pradesh Gorakhpur district, the family alleged. Police said two people have been arrested in connection with the case of kidnapping and raping of the 17-year-old girl.
A minor girl was raped and singed with cigarette butts by two men in Uttar Pradesh Gorakhpur district, the family alleged. Police said two people have been arrested in connection with the case of kidnapping and raping of the 17-year-old girl.
Sunil Gupta, the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) of Gorakhpur, said a family in Gola block of the district informed the police on August 15 that two people who live close to their village abducted their 17-year-old daughter.
"In the Gola area, in the afternoon of August 15, a family informed police that on the night of August 14 two people who live close to their village took their 17-year-old daughter on a motorcycle. They found her the next day," he said.
He said the police filed an FIR immediately, and both the accused have been arrested.
"Within 24 hours we have arrested both the named accused, and we will make sure that strict punishment will be given to them," he added.
The father of the minor claimed that his daughter`s body was singed with cigarette butts.
Earlier on Monday, three teenagers were booked and arrested for raping a teenage girl during the intervening night of August 15 and August 16, at a village in the Biswan Police Station of Sitapur district of Uttar Pradesh.
Another girl was allegedly raped and murdered in Itanagar in the Lakhimpur Kheri district of Uttar Pradesh on Friday. Later, the police recovered her body from a sugarcane field in Itanagar. Satyendra Kumar, Superintendent of Police (SP), Lakhimpur Kheri said two men have been booked under offences of murder and gangrape, adding that action will also be taken against them under the National Security Act.
Launching an attack on the Yogi Adityanath government, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra alleged that Uttar Pradesh`s law-and-order system had "failed" to provide protection to women and children.
"Bulandshahr, Hapur, Lakhimpur-Kheri and now Gorakhpur. These incidents have proved that the Uttar Pradesh Government has failed to provide security to women. Criminals have no fear of law and order. As a result of this, gruesome incidents of crime against women are increasing," Vadra said in a Facebook post in Hindi.
She alleged that neither the state government nor the Uttar Pradesh Police are able to provide security to women and take appropriate action against the culprits.
"Uttar Pradesh is at the top when it comes to crime against children. In the last few days, there have been reports of crime against children from many places in Uttar Pradesh that will shake you up," the Congress general secretary wrote.
"Uttar Pradesh`s law and order system has completely failed to provide protection to children, girls and women. Surprisingly, after every incident, the Uttar Pradesh police first gets in to cover-up mode," she further alleged.
She urged the Uttar Pradesh government to review law and order situation and take immediate steps to provide security to women.
(With ANI inputs)
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