Following the horrific rape incident in which a Scheduled Caste girl was gang-raped by four men belonging to the dominant Thakur caste in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras village, another incident has been reported in which a 22 year old woman was gang-raped by two Muslim men.
The woman, a 2nd year B.Com student who also reportedly worked at a private firm, had gone to pay her college fees on Tuesday but did not return home till late in the evening.
Her family members had made several attempts to reach out to her phone but to no avail.
Later that night, she had reportedly come in an auto rickshaw in a semiconscious state with a glucose drip attacked to her arm indicating that she had undergone treatment.
According to the mother of the victim, the woman had come back in pain and managed to utter the words “I am in lot of pain, I won’t survive”.
Seeing her condition, the family members rushed her to a nearby hospital but the woman died on the way.
Speaking to the reporters, the mother of the victim told that her daughter had gone to get her admission done at 10 in the morning and on her way back, 3-4men forcibly put her in their car, injected her and raped her adding that the accused broke her back and her legs and sent her back in a rickshaw. “She had no strength left to even walk,” the mother lamented.
However, the Balrampur Police had refuted reports about the victim’s limbs and waist being broken as the autopsy reports did not confirm the same.
The Balrampur police have filed a case based on the complaint of the victim’s brother. Two accused – Shahid and Suhail has been arrested on charges of gang-rape and murder.
The police have said that the victim was raped at the backroom of a grocery store in Gaisari village. Apparently, the victim’s sandals were found outside the room. It was reported that the store owner was the mastermind behind the crime.
Police noted that the accused had tried to get the victim treated post the rape. They had called a nearby doctor who later grew suspicious and of the situation and refused to treat the woman in the absence of the guardian.
The doctor told local reporters that a boy named Suhail had called him around 5 PM and was taken to Shahid’s grocery shop. He was told that the woman was a patient from their family. He had asked who the woman was after seeing that the room was empty and sensing something was wrong. The accused had told the doctor that she was the daughter of a government secretary. The doctor then refused to treat until the victim had a guardian beside her. They had then told him to go back to the clinic saying that they will get the victim to his clinic but did not turn up.
The doctor also confirmed that the victim did not have an IV drip attached when he saw her.
Similar to the Hathras incident, the Balrampur victim was also hurriedly cremated in the middle of Tuesday night amidst heavy police deployment. However in this case, the funeral was conducted with the permission of the victim’s family unlike as alleged by the family members of the Hathras victim.
Meanwhile, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has assured that the perpetrators behind the Hathras incident would not be spared and that the case would be tried in fast track court.