Even as the torching of a rape survivor in Unnao in the early hours of Thursday shocked the nation, two more sensational cases of attack on members of fairer sex were reported. In one incident, a class IX girl student was molested and later hanged to death in Mainpuri while in the other, a minor girl was gang-raped in Sitapur.

In Mainpuri, a girl from Ghirore area had gone to school to attend her classes on Wednesday morning where she was sexually assaulted by some students.

On returning from school, the girl informed her parents about the incident. When her brother learnt of this, he went out and beat up one of the accused. However, the villagers intervened to resolve the issue.

According to victim’s father, the matter took an ugly turn when four accused reached his house on a car and barged in early Thursday morning. They assaulted his daughter and later hanged her from the ceiling and escaped. By the time the girl could be rescued, she had died.

Later, the villagers staged a massive demonstration, demanding immediate arrest of the accused.

The police later arrested two named accused and assured the agitators of early arrest of the rest of the accused.

In Sitapur, a 15-year-old girl was gang-raped by two men on the night of December 3. The miscreants took the victim to a sugarcane field, raped her and later abandoned her after gagging her and tying her hands and legs.

The girl was found on Wednesday after her family members along with villagers started a search.

Superintendent of Police LR Kumar said that an FIR was registered and the girl was being treated in a local hospital.

The accused, identified as Rupesh and Yogendra, were arrested and investigations are underway.