Dalit woman’s body found in UP’s Barabanki; rape & murder suspected
An 18-yearold Dalit woman, who was found dead in an agricultural field in Barabanki district in Uttar Pradesh, was raped before being strangled, police said on Friday citing postmortem report.
Additional Superintendent of Police R S Gautam said the post-mortem examination has confirmed that the woman was raped before she was strangled.
Charges related to rape will be included in the FIR registered at Satrikh police station, he said, adding that some suspects have been taken into custody for questioning.
The father of the woman had informed police on Wednesday evening that she had gone to the fields but did not return home. Later, family members found her dead.
A police team visited the village and collected evidence before lodging an FIR, the police officer said.
The rape and murder of the woman in Barabanki came days after a 19-yearold Dalit woman died after she was assaulted and allegedly gang-raped in Hathras district.
The Hathras woman died at a hospital in Delhi on September 29, a fortnight after her assault allegedly by four upper caste men of her village.
The assault and death of the Hathras woman, and her cremation by the authorities in the dead of the night, triggered an outrage and protests in parts of the country.
‘Dalit teen gang-raped in Kanpur village’
A 15-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly raped by two men in a village in Sachendi area of Kanpur district, police said on Friday.
The incident took place on Thursday night when the girl had gone outside a field to attend nature’s call, said Sachendi’s police station’s officiating in-charge Ashok Kumar.
Two persons identified as Govind Balmiki, 19, and Ajay alias ShivBodhan, 30, raped her in the field, he added.
The girl, somehow, managed to reach home and told her parents about the incident, he said, adding the police lodged an FIR under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences act on the parent’s complaint on Friday.
The medical examination of the victim was conducted at the Community Health Centre, Kalyanpur but the report hasn’t been received as yet, Kumar said.