A Dalit woman whose dismembered body was discovered in Uttar Pradesh’s Banda district earlier this week, was allegedly raped before she was murdered. The incident took place in Pataura village in Girvan police station area of Banda. According to a PTI report, Station House Officer (Girwan) police station Sandeep Tiwari said that the 40-year-old woman had reached Rajkumar Shukla’s house to clean his flour mill on Tuesday. When her 20-year-old daughter reached the mill to call her mother back, she heard her mother’s screams from a room which was bolted from inside. After the door was opened, she saw her mother’s body lying in three pieces.
She informed the police and an FIR was registered against Rajkumar, his brother Bauwa Shukla and Ramakrishna Shukla. She alleged that her mother was gangraped and brutally killed by the accused. The police registered a case under the sections of gangrape and murder and named three accused. However, the accused men are absconding and no arrests have been made yet.
In response, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav attacked the state government and said that the news of the Banda rape and murder is “heart-wrenching”. He also said that the women in the state are scared and also angry.
In a post on X in Hindi, Yadav said, “The news of rape and heinous murder of a Dalit in Banda is heart-wrenching. The women of Uttar Pradesh are scared and also angry." Yadav also mentioned the incident of stripping and making indecent videos of a female student of IIT-BHU.
"The incident of making a video of a female student of IIT-BHU after stripping her after indecency is a slap on the face of the law and order in Uttar Pradesh and exposes BJP's big lie of zero tolerance,” he said.
“The women of Uttar Pradesh have completely lost faith in the BJP government. Now any expectation from this government is meaningless," Yadav said.
The SP chief shared a video of a protest being held by the students of IIT-BHU on his social media account.
A student of IIT-BHU was allegedly molested and stripped by three motorcycle-borne men, who also recorded a video of the act, near her hostel, police said on Thursday.
Hundreds of Banaras Hindu University (BHU) students held a protest on Thursday. The students claimed this was an act of outside elements and demanded that outsiders be banned from entering the campus.
The woman in her complaint said that she was outside her hostel with a friend on Wednesday night. They were near the Karman Baba temple when three men came there on a motorcycle, and they forcibly took her to a corner and gagged her after separating from her friend. The accused then stripped the woman, made a video of her and clicked photos. They let her go after 15 minutes and took her phone number, the complaint stated.
On the basis of the woman's complaint, an FIR has been registered under Section 354 (assault or criminal force to a woman with intent to outrage her modesty) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and under provisions of the IT Act at Lanka police station, police said.