Updated Feb 20, 2021 | 14:15 IST
The accused forcibly took the girl at gunpoint and raped her at an underconstruction house in the village in Sardhana town of Meerut district of Uttar Pradesh. The accused also hit the girl with the gun butt when she protested the atrocity. | Photo Credit: iStock Images
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The girl was raped at an underconstruction house at gunpoint
The 15-year-old victim narrated her ordeal to parents who in turn approached police with a complaint.
Sardhana: In a shameful and horrific incident, a man raped his distant niece at gunpoint at a village in Sardhana town of Meerut district of Uttar Pradesh.
Updated Feb 19, 2021 | 12:46 IST
The victim alleged that she was sexually abused for one year by Baraut resident to whom she was sold by her father in Partapur area of Meerut. A few days back, the girl managed to flee from his captivity and contacted police. | Photo Credit: iStock Images
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The incident took place in Partapur area of the city.
The victim alleged that his father sold her for Rs 2 lakh to the man he had borrowed money from.
Meerut: In a shocking incident, a man allegedly sold his daughter after he failed to pay his debts in Meerut district of Uttar Pradesh.
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BIJNOR: A village panchayat in UP’s Bijnor district announced four slaps and Rs 1 lakh fine as punishment to a youth, 16, for allegedly raping his eight-year-old cousin. The matter has been deemed as “settled” by local police as the family members of the victim have not filed a complaint. The boy meanwhile has been recuperating in a private hospital since Sunday evening when the alleged assault took place in Bijnor’s Nehtaur region.
According to villagers, the youth lured the boy, a neighbour, to a field on the outskirts of his village and allegedly sexually assaulted him. The boy was rescued after some passersby heard his cry and brought him to the village. From there, the child was taken to a private hospital in Bijnor’s Noorpur town.
“We have not received any death warrant but have started preparing … Last year in February, the executioner, Pawan Jallad, had inspected the hanging house. He said that there was a problem with the structure of the gallows. We are fixing that now. We have also just ordered two hanging ropes from Bihar’s Buxar central jail,” Mathura senior jail superintendent Shailendra Maitrey told TOI on Wednesday.
Built 150 years ago, the gallows has never been used in independent India. Step-sisters Renuka Shinde and Seema Gavit have been on death row for kidnapping 13 children and killing at least five of them. A woman from Lucknow, Ramshri, had been sentenced to death in 1998 but it was commuted to life imprisonment after she gave birth to a child in prison. So, the hanging house, with creaking structures and covered in overgrowth with decades of disuse, would take a while to set in order should a death warrant be issued.