Teen thrown off second floor in Mathura, two arrested
AGRA : Two of the three men who allegedly threw a 17-yearold girl off the second floor of a house in the Chaatha area of Mathura district on Monday night, were arrested on Tuesday, the police said. The search is on for nabbing the third accused, police added.
“A case has been registered under various sections of Indian Penal Code, including that for molestation and attempt to murder. The age of the girl was not revealed at the time of the complaint but as she turned out to be a minor, the relevant provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act are to be added,” said Shirish Chandra, Mathura’s superintendent of police (Rural).
All three accused are in their early twenties (20 to 22 years), said the SP Rural.
“The complaint was lodged by the father of the girl at Chaatha police station of Mathura district against three accused. Two of the accused were arrested on Tuesday while a search is on for the third,” the SP (Rural) said.
The SP Rural further clarified that no complaint was lodged in past by the family or the girl against these three.
“The victim is under treatment in Kosi town. The exact injuries are yet to be confirmed as the girl has been sent for an MRI to Mathura by doctors,” Chandra added.
The police have grabbed CCTV footage from the neighbourhood which purportedly shows the girl falling flat on the street outside the house.
“She is admitted to a private hospital and has got severe injuries in her spinal cord and other parts of the body. She is in a critical condition,” the girl’s father told reporters.
The father of girl alleged that the three men, including two from Bihar, lived in same locality and had molested the girl.
The three men had been harassing his sister for about a year, the woman’s brother was quoted as saying to news agency PTI.
“Last night (Monday night), around 8pm, our father got a call from an unknown number. The caller asked who is speaking and sought to know the location. Our father told the caller his name and that he was speaking from Chaatha,” the brother said.
“Soon, the three men arrived on a motorcycle and barged into our house. They assaulted my family members, including mother and sister. Two of them forcibly took my sister to the second floor and threw her from the balcony, breaking her spinal cord,” he alleged.
SP (Rural) Shirish Chandra said the girl’s family gave a written complaint at the local police station on Tuesday morning after which the FIR was lodged.
Meanwhile, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled state government over the issue of crime against women.
“In Mathura, goons who had been harassing a girl for a year entered her house and threw her from the terrace. A girl, troubled over be ing teased, ended her own life in Hamirpur,” she said in a tweet in
Hindi.
“In jungle raj, the safety of women is in God’s hands,” Priyanka Gandhi added.
UP BJP spokesman Harish Srivastava said, “I am not aware of the exact details but all I can say is that whatsoever the case, in this government, the guilty would not be able to use influence to escape the law, as used to be the case in previous governments. From land mafia to liquor mafia, criminals and anti-social elements, all are on the run or behind bars.”
(with PTI inputs)