Rape horror in Greater Noida

sister, relatives said.

“We have registered a case of murder, abduction, gang rape and robbery...Three teams, including personnel from special operation group, crime branch and local police have been formed,” said Ram Kumar, inspector general of police, Meerut range. “We are also seeking the help of the special task force to investigate the matter.”

Uttar Pradesh, with the longest road network among all states, accounts for the highest number of highway crimes in India. National Crime Records Bureau’s data for 2014 show 80% of the 84,000 such cases across the country were recorded in the state.

Last July, a mother and her 13-year-old daughter were wayof laid and gang-raped by a group of robbers in Bulandshahr.

The incident sparked a political slugfest ahead of the assembly elections, with the BJP accusing the then Samajwadi Party government of failing to protect the state’s “daughters and daughters-in-law”. The BJP swept to power two months ago promising better policing.

Like in last year’s incident, the robbers used a home-made device called ‘khadanja’ — a thick piece rubber with protruding iron nails — to puncture two wheels of the eight-seater vehicle, a Maruti Eco.

“They (the robbers) told us to get down and showed us pistols. We were asked to move towards the field. They tied the hands and legs of the men including me by using the dupattas of the women... we begged them to leave us, but no one listened,” said one of the victims. The men are ironsmith in Jewar.

He said when one of the men asked the robbers to leave the women, the robbers first fired a bullet near his feet and then shot him in his chest. “They told him, ‘tu kya kar lega (what will you do),” he said.

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