Bulandshahr rape victim’s family gets security
MEERUT: Security has been provided to the family of a teenage rape victim and to her village in the Jahangirabad area of Bulandshahr district after she died on being allegedly set afire by the family members of the rape accused on Tuesday when they failed to convince her family to go for a compromise in the rape case, officials said.
Bulandshahr district magistrate Ravindra Kumar said that security was provided to the girl’s family as they feared a threat to their lives from supporters of the accused and the police arrested five out of the seven named accused in the case. Raids were being conducted to arrest the remaining two, he added. The police had registered a case of murder against seven family members of the rape accused and their supporters on the complaint of the girl’s family on Tuesday evening.
The Bulandshahr district administration said immediate compensation of Rs 3.75 lakh had been released to the family of the victim under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
Kumar and senior superintendent of police S K Singh visited the aggrieved family on Wednesday. Kumar said the family demanded adequate security and requested for arrangements to bring the body to the village for the last rites.
The DM said officials were in regular contact with the authorities at the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in New Delhi where the girl died during treatment
on Tuesday evening.
“An ambulance has been kept ready in the hospital to bring the body to the village immediately after the post-mortem examination,” said Kumar.
He further said the SSP had made “adequate” security arrangements for the last rites.
Three of the accused were arrested on Tuesday and two on Wednesday.
An orchard caretaker had allegedly raped the girl on August 15 and the police had arrested him the same day. His family members were pressuring the girl’s family for a compromise ever since. The uncle of the jailed rape accused reportedly set the girl afire on Tuesday morning after they failed to convince the family for a compromise.
The girl succumbed to burns on late Tuesday evening.