Hundreds of crimes against women are reported every month in Uttar Pradesh, whose chief minister Yogi Adityanath likes to point the finger at other states like Bengal. Uttar Pradesh accounted for 59,853 crimes against women 14 per cent of the national total in 2019, the latest National Crime Records Bureau report says.
Here’s a look at a few such crimes committed in Uttar Pradesh in the first eight days of this month alone, with several policemen among the accused and a woman police officer among the victims. These incidents show the cops following their tradition of refusing to register cases, casting aspersions on the victim, and even being accused of aiding the murder of the victims’ family members features seen also in the notorious Unnao and Hathras gang-rape cases.
Kanpur: 3 policemen suspended after minor gangrape survivor s father dies in accident
Kanpur: 3 policemen suspended after minor gangrape survivor s father dies in accident
Two sub-inspectors and a constable were suspended for laxity on Wednesday following the alleged gangrape case of a 13-year-old girl and the death of her father in a road accident.
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Two sub-inspectors and a constable were suspended for laxity on Wednesday following the alleged gangrape case of a 13-year-old girl and the death of her father in a road accident. The action was taken against the three cops after they were found guilty in a preliminary inquiry by the Ghatampur circle officer, Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Kanpur Preetinder Singh said.
Death of rape victim’s father | Kanpur police look into suicide angle
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March 12, 2021 18:20 IST
The man was on Wednesday knocked dead by a truck outside a health centre in Ghatampur area in Kanpur where his daughter was undergoing a medical examination.
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Villagers block the highway after the death of a rape survivor’s father in a road accident in Kanpur district on March 10, 2021. | Photo Credit: PTI
The man was on Wednesday knocked dead by a truck outside a health centre in Ghatampur area in Kanpur where his daughter was undergoing a medical examination. The police in Kanpur on Friday ordered an inquiry into allegations that the father of a 13-year-old gang-rape victim committed suicide after he felt humiliated by the policemen probing the case.
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Police personnel try to control the situation after villagers blocked the highway
KANPUR: A rape survivor’s father was crushed to death by a speeding truck on Kanpur-Sagar highway, just metres away from Ghatampur community health centre, where his 13-year-old daughter was undergoing medical examination for sexual assault early Wednesday.
It all happened in front of policemen escorting the man and his daughter, who was allegedly gang-raped by two youths, including a policeman s son late Monday.
After the man lay sprawled in blood on the highway, police swiftly took him to Lala Lajpat Rai Hospital, Kanpur, where doctors declared him dead.