Massive protest on ‘anniv’ of Mohanlalganj rape-murder

LUCKNOW: On the completion of one year of the sensational Mohanlalganj rape and murder case, social and women’s organisations are going to hold a massive protest over police failure to crack other similar crimes.

At least 12 incidents on the same pattern have been reported in different parts of the state capital since the Mohanlalganj incident on July 17, 2014. In this incident, a 35-year-old woman was brutally murdered allegedly after being raped. Her naked body bearing injury marks on the face, eyes and private parts was found lying in the pool of blood outside the primary school of Balsinghkheda village in Mohanlalganj.

The incident had created a sensation. There was a major controversy over the police’s single killer theory and the family members of the deceased had even sought an independent inquiry by the Central Bureau Of Investigation. The police had claimed to have cracked the case after arrest of a security guard Ram Sewak Yadav and had sent him to jail.

“Our purpose to hold the protest is to keep alive the Mohanlalganj incident in the memories of the public and the state government till it reach a final conclusion. A demand would also be raised to work out unsolved cases of a similar nature,” said Seema Rana, district president of All India Democratic Women’s Association.

She said in some other similar cases, the cops had even failed to ascertain the identity of the victims. “Cops have not been able to ascertain the identity of the victim in a recent incident reported in PGI area so far. Subsequently, the investigations are heading to a denouement similar to previous unsolved cases, where cops ended up in a blind alley”, she emphasised, while raising doubts on police competence.

Rana said the initial plan was to hold the protest on the day of Mohanlalganj incident (July 17) but now it would be held sometime close to this date as there was a possibility of Eid on the same day. She said the protest was to demand justice for victims of such brutal crimes and security of women in the state capital.

She said the activists of other women’s and social organisations would also be roped in for a wider impact.

She said there was a plan to meet chief minister Akhilesh Yadav and present a memorandum to him.