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Uttar Pradesh: Three people arrested in connection with Bulandshahr gangrape

A horrific gang rape, right on National Highway 91 in Uttar Pradesh, sent shock waves throughout the country.

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Uttar Pradesh: Three people arrested in connection with Bulandshahr gangrape
Bulandshahr: People block national highway 91 in Bulandshahr against rape of a woman and her 13-year-old girl, on Sunday.
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At least three people were arrested on Monday in connection with brutal gang-rape of a woman and her daughter in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr district.

"Rakesh, Savesh and Jawar Singh have been arrested in Bulandshahr gang rape and loot case," Meerut DIG Lakshmi Singh told ANI.

In the brutal gangrape, a woman and her teenage daughter was raped by bandits on gunpoint on Friday night after dragging the family out of a car near here, even as the Samajwadi Party government came under intense flak over the incident.

As the incident, which occurred near bypass when the family from Noida was from travelling to Shahjahanpur on NH-91, acquired a political hue, the Chief Minister went into a fire-fighting mode and suspended SSP Bulandshahr Vaibhav Kishan, SP city Rammohan Singh , Circle Officer (Sadar) Himanshu Gaurav and SHO Ramsen Singh of Kotwali Dehat, amid allegations of laxity by police.

The DGP accompanied by Principal Secretary (Home) visited the site of the incident on the direction of the CM.

The police chief, however, rubbished the charge that police did not act swiftly, saying they reached the spot within 20 minutes of getting information and SSP Vibhav Krishna also arrived there.

Taking cognisance of the case, the National Commission for Women said it has sent a member to meet the victims and officials in Uttar Pradesh but added that it finds little cooperation from the state administration in such cases.

NCW chief Lalitha Kumaramangalam also questioned the genuineness of the detentions made by police in the case.

Opposition parties alleged that the 'barbaric' incident showed that 'goonda raj' was at its peak in the state where Assembly elections were due in early 2017.

BJP criticised the state government for laying expressways and highways without caring for the safety and security of the users, while BSP said such heinous crimes indicated towards deteriorating law and order situation and 'jungle raj' in the state.

(With agencies inputs)

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