Hindustan Times (Chandigarh)

3 sisters in suicide pact over exploitati­on by dad

- HT Correspond­ent

LUCKNOW: Three sisters in Uttar Pradesh’s Barabanki tried to commit suicide by jumping in front of train after being allegedly sexually exploited by their father. Passerby saved two sisters but the eldest sibling was grievously injured and her legs had to be amputated.

The station master rushed the injured girl to Mathura Nagar community health centre from where the doctors referred her to the district hospital. She was then sent to Trauma Centre, Lucknow. ASP, Barabanki, Shashikant Tiwari said the police have started investigat­ion.

The two girls have been sent to the hospital for medical examinatio­n and their statement will be recorded.

A police team has been sent to Bhitariya village under Dariyabad police station to interrogat­e the accused.

On Thursday, the girls aged 20, 17 and 15 had gone to neighbouri­ng Taali village to attend the marriage of a family friend. When they returned home at night, their father tried to rape the eldest daughter. When she protested, he beat all the three up and pushed them outside the house.

On Friday morning, when they tried to enter the house, they were again beaten up by their father.

The girls told the doctors and police officer that their father had raped them. When they objected to his act, they were beaten up and threatened of dire consequenc­es, they added.

Rating:

Yamraj makes an error and the wrong woman dies. The right guy had a wife who was heavily into praying and going to temples, so the God of Death switched targets to keep the register ringing. It didn’t help that our heroine, now a moody ghost, wasn’t wearing a helmet at the time.

So Siddhi (Patralekha­a) is thrown off a bike and lying in a pool of blood on the road when Nanu (Abhay Deol), a brash but well-meaning neighbourh­ood thug, finds her. He rushes her to hospital, where a rather callous doctor informs him, on the spot, that ‘she is no more’.

Patralekha­a begins to haunt Nanu, distractin­g him from his land-grabbing scams and his team of sidekicks — who, incidental­ly, include a girl always on the verge of ripping her clothes off.

This could have been a light, frothy comedy. Instead, it’s oddly serious in the parts that could have been funniest, so that you’re left wondering

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