Minor girl, woman gangraped in two separate incidents in Sultanpuri
11-year-old girl and a 28-year-old woman were allegedly gang-raped in two separate incidents this week in outer Delhi’s Sultanpuri. In both the cases, the suspects were known to the rape survivors, police said.
The minor girl was gang-raped allegedly by her two cousins at gunpoint while the woman said she was drugged and gang-raped at an isolated place by her former landlord and his three brothers. Two separate cases were registered at the Sultanpuri police station in connection with the crimes.
A police officer said the first incident took place on Tuesday. The minor girl and her younger sister and other family members had come to Delhi from their native home in UP’s Moradabad to attend their relative’s wedding.
After the wedding, the other guests left but the two sisters and their family members stayed back. On Tuesday evening, the girls’ uncle fell ill and was admitted to a hospital. Everybody from the house, except the two girls, went to the hospital.
Around midnight, the girls were sleeping when they heard a knock at the main door. The elder one opened the door and found that their two cousins had come in a drunken state. After dinner, one of the cousins allegedly started touching the girl inappropriately. “When she resisted, the other cousin whipped out a pistol and threatened to kill her. The two then took turns to rape her in the presence of the other sister. The two then threatened to kill them and left ,” said the officer.
When the relatives returned, the sisters narrated their ordeal. The police were informed and a case was registered. The cousins are yet to be arrested.
In the second incident on Wednesday, a 28-year-old woman alleged that she was abducted, drugged and gangraped by her landlord and his three brothers while she was returning home after work in Sultanpuri. A case was registered on her complaint. Sources said the brothers have been detained.
The woman in her complaint alleged that on Wednesday evening, she was returning home when her former landlord and his two brother met her and engaged her in a conversation. They allegedly offered her a spiked drink which she consumed and fell semi-unconscious.
The three took her to an isolated place where they were joined by their fourth brother. They took turns to rape her and then fled. She sustained injuries but somehow informed her sister who took her to a hospital.
The implications of this were evident in MP where farmers separated by thousands of kilometres received messages announcing a protest from June 1. Several unions joined once the agitation began, but when the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s Bharat Kisan Sangh, and a smaller group called the Kisan Sena, struck a compromise deal with the government, the movement gathered steam.
“Who is the Kisan Sena to strike a compromise on behalf of MP’s farmers?” asked another WhatsApp message. “On June 10, leave your villages and crowd the cities…Bring food and a big stick.”
The protestors continued to coordinate their actions even after the agitation turned violent. “They would message each other whenever someone was arrested,” said a senior police officer. “Then a big crowd would show up at the thana (police station) and pressurise the police to release them.”
The administration switched off the internet in west MP on June 6.
Meenakshi Natrajan, a former Congress MP from Mandsaur, said the movement began a year ago in Kuntamba village in Ahmednagar, Maharashtra when farmers demanded the implementation of the Swaminathan report, which proposes a minimum support price that ensures a 50 percent return on farm inputs.
“Message of this resolution spread, mainly through social media, and traveled to Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan,” Natarajan said.
This message also moved along traditional farmer networks.
In May 2016, for example, Vijay Jhanvandiya and Vivekanand Mathne, activists in Maharasthra’s cotton-growing Vidarbha region organised an all-India meeting of farmer associations in Wardha, near Nagpur, where they listed the implementation of the Swaminathan report as a key farmer issue.
The meeting was just one of hundreds of similar meetings organised across India.
“Many small farmers associations attended the meeting and made connections with each other, in person and on social
Seven members of a gang of auto-lifters have been arrested by the east Delhi Police. A total of 38 stolen motorcycles were recovered so far from them.
DCP (east) Omvir Singh said that 61 cases of vehicle thefts have been solved with the arrest of the seven men. They have been identified as Ashutosh, media,” said Kedar Sirohi, who runs the Aam Kisan Union out of Indore. “Each group by itself is small, but together we can now command upwards of 25,000 members.”
For the young farmers of Suwasra village, which witnessed some of the worst clashes between police and protesters, membership means inclusion in a particular WhatsApp group.
“We are members of the Bharat Kisan Union WhatsApp group,” said Gauri Shankar Patidar, referring to a union having a long and storied history in Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh, but has no presence in MP.
It isn’t even clear if the BKU on Patidar’s WhatsApp group is the same group popularised in the 1980s by UP farm leader Mahendra Singh Tikait. The leaders of the WhatsApp faction represent a curious caste mix -Yadavs, Vermas, Rajputs and Patidars, completely at odds with the way electoral politics in India is traditionally understood.
When HT contacted then vice chairman Ashok Kumar about the change of rules to the city’s “master plan” in 2009, he said: “I don’t remember as it’s an eight year old issue.”
A senior DDA official sought to explain the fabrication, saying the feedback had to be made up to meet requirements under the law.
“It’s a futile exercise as we hardly get any response from people,” said the official who didn’t wish to be named.
Given that the size of the flats and market rates vary significantly across projects, it wasn’t possible to put a value on the extra 15% FAR allowed to private builders.
The tweaked policy proved helpful for at least four developers, including DLF and Parsvnath.
“The amendment was made by the government and we have to abide by that,” said Rajeev Talwar, CEO of DLF.
Sunit Sachar, a senior vice president of Parsvnath, said: “If government amends a norm we have to go by that, irrespective of whether it’s in our favour or against us.”
The trail of events goes back to 2008 when a business lobby urged the central urban development ministry to allow 15% extra FAR in subsidised housing pro- Krishna, Pintu, Monu Sharma, Shivam, Sumit, and Ajay. He said that gang was active in eastern parts of the city.
“Due to the alarming rise in cases of thefts of two-wheelers, various teams were formed under the supervision of the assistant commissioners of the sub divisions in our district. jects they build for the poor. The ministry forwarded the request to the DDA, which sought suggestions and objections from the people on January 20, 2009.
In May the same year, the DDA approved the amendment and increased the buildable area from 2 to 2.30.
“DDA officials fabricated a list showing that 1,374 objections and suggestions were received by them and out of these, approximately 670 people personally appeared before the board of inquiry set up by the authority for this purpose,” said an official of Delhi-based NGO Sabke Liye Aawas Sangthan, which filed the RTI query about the so-called respondents. The official didn’t want to be identified for fear of persecution.
“When I asked the authority to provide a list of 670 people who attended the board of inquiry it didn’t find the record.”
“A disinformation campaign against India and Indian security forces is being run in valley among every section of the society in general and youth in particular via social media but it will not be allowed to succeed” he said.
On China, he stressed on the need to improve relations with the Communist giant. “Counter intrusions take place from both the sides of LAC. We also fly our helicopters on the space that may be considered intrusion by the other side,” Rawat said.
He was referring to the recent incident of a suspected Chinese helicopter violating Indian airspace by hovering over Uttarakhand’s Chamoli area along the border. He denied that these cross overs were attempts by Beijing to intrude into Indian Territory.
Incidents of Chinese troops crossing over to the Indian side of the border often spark fear in the bordering areas and at times even lead to standoffs between the two countries.
Sources said that such violation of the Indian airspace in Chamoli and other areas of the state from the Chinese side have occurred in the past as well.
In July 2016, some members of the People’s Liberation Army of China entered into Indian Territory in the state’s Chamoli area, triggering a nationwide outrage. The intruders even shooed away Chamoli district administration officials who had gone to investigate the matter. They were tasked to collect information about the vehicle them and nab them at the earliest,” said the DCP.
The collective efforts of the teams worked and seven members of the gang were caught in various raids from different areas in the city.
HTC