That there has been another gang rape in the state of Uttar Pradesh is no longer shocking, since I started writing this piece, a 19- year- old has allegedly been raped and thrown from the terrace of her house. She is battling for survival, while a pregnant 15-year-old rape survivor could not make it.
Nor are allegations of police apathy in handling the case in the village of Badaun where a local priest is the prime accused surprising, this is the same police that a few months ago forcefully cremated a 19- year- old gang rape victim in the dead of the night without allowing her family a last glance.
NEW DELHI: Women’s rights activists have sought the resignation of National Commission for Women member Chandramukhi Devi.
On her visit to Badaun, Chandramukhi Devi had said that the rape victim should not have left home after dark unaccompanied, putting the blame on the victim for the incident.
The 50-year-old anganwadi worker was allegedly gang-raped and murdered on January 3 in Uttar Pradesh’s Badaun district. The fact that a member of the apex statutory body should have said of the raped and murdered woman from Badaun that all this was avoidable had she not gone out alone is the most despicable and condemnable comment which speaks volumes for her regressive mindset which does not behove any man or woman, leave alone a person who has been placed there to ensure the rights of every single woman and girl child of the country,” a group of activists, including former NCW chairperson Mohini Giri and former members Sayeda Hameed and Padma Seth, said in a statement.
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The brutality of the crime and the way authorities have reacted to it has shocked and outraged a large section of India s population.
Women09/Jan/2021
A 50-year-old anganwadi worker was gang-raped and murdered allegedly by a priest and his two accomplices in Badaun district of Uttar Pradesh, triggering widespread outrage.
The brutality of the crime and the way authorities have reacted to it has forced India’s woman population to once again question their basic rights and freedoms.
Updated Jan 08, 2021 | 07:29 IST
The main accused, identified as Baba Satya Narayan, had been hiding in the same village for the last two days while several police teams were looking for him all over the state. Police arrest absconding main accused in Budaun gangrape & murder case | Photo Credit: Times Now
Key Highlights
The 50-year-old woman was gang-raped and murdered on Sunday when she had gone to a temple.
Police booked the temple priest and his two aides on the basis of the complaint filed by the victim s family.
The other two accused were held by the police on Tuesday night.
Temple priest, key accused in Badaun gangrape-murder case, held
The priest Satyanand had come to the village around five years ago and remained mostly aloof
Friday January 8, 2021 8:58 AM, IANS
Badaun (UP): Satyanand, the main accused in the Badaun gangrape and murder case, landed in police net, late on Thursday night, almost four days after a 50-year-old woman was allegedly gang-raped and abandoned outside her home at a village in Badaun district.
District magistrate, Kumar Prashant, confirmed that Satyanand, the local temple priest and the main accused was hiding in the house of one of his followers in a village from where he was picked up and arrested.