16-year-old minor gangrape victim ends life in Baghpat district

Lucknow: A 16-year-old minor gangrape victim committed suicide in Baghpat district due to police inaction.The accused had threatened to rape her again if she did not withdraw her complaint. The minor victim was a resident of Kirthal village under Ramala police station and had been abducted in a car by five miscreants on July 5 who took her to a secluded spot and raped her by turns.

Five days later, she was thrown on the outskirts of the village. Her parents took her to the police and lodged a named FIR against the accused. The inquiry was handed over to the sub-inspector Ajai Kumar but he did not initiate any action against accused who continued to roam free and kept issuing threats to the girl and her parents.

The victim and her parents had met the Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath during his Janata Darbar in Lucknow about two months ago and the CM had directed that the accused should be arrested without delay. However, the police did not comply with the CM’s directive and instead, put a final report. On Friday, when the victim had gone out to the market, the accused physically assaulted her and asked her to withdraw the case or she would be raped again. Unable to bear the humiliation, the victim rushed back home and told her parents that she had been threatened again by her rapists. She shut herself in her room and hanged herself from the fan.