Nude body of girl recovered, family suspects rape, murder

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Nude body of girl recovered, family suspects rape, murder

Wednesday, 05 October 2022 | PNS | Lucknow

A 17-year-old girl's nude body was found in a millet field under Dibiyapur police station of Auraiya, police said on Tuesday.

The girl's family alleged that she was raped and murdered.

The girl’s death took a political colour as the Congress uploaded a video on its Twitter handle, saying the police were "running away" with the body, an allegation denied by the authorities.

The girl's family members informed the media that she had gone out in the morning on Monday to attend to the call of nature but as she did not return home even after long, they launched a search for her and found her body in the field.

The girl's father claimed that the teenager's body was found without clothes and a dupatta was tied around her neck. The father suspects that she was raped and later murdered.

According to the girl's father, the crops nearby were damaged, which suggests that the girl was dragged by the perpetrator for 30-40 metres in the field.

However, Auraiya’s Superintendent of Police Charu Nigam claimed that there was no injury on the girl's body and said the case would be probed from all angles.

Nigam, who reached the village with forensic experts, deployed 10 police teams, including a Special Operations Group, to crack the case.

Meanwhile, the Congress shared a video of policemen carrying a body and a woman walking behind. The tweet in Hindi read, "In Auraiya, naked body of a 17-year-old girl was found in a field. The police arrived and began running away with the body in a hurry. The poor family is running behind. Uttar Pradesh is 'Number 1' in crimes against women. But nobody will call it 'jungle raj'."

Refuting the allegations, SP Charu Nigam said the policemen completed all legal formalities and took the body in possession after pacifying the family. In no way has the body been forcibly taken, she added.

The police officer said the post-mortem examination would be video-graphed and conducted by a panel of three doctors and a case would be registered based on the family's complaint. Nigam said the victim's family had not named any accused yet.

Meanwhile, a doctor was arrested for allegedly raping a woman in Basti. The woman filed a complaint with the police stating that the doctor, posted at a hospital in Basti Sadar Kotwali area, befriended her on social media and asked her to visit him.

Circle Officer (City) Alok Prasad said that the FIR had been registered against two doctors posted at Kaili Hospital in Basti and their doctor friend in connection with the complaint filed by the woman.

In her complaint, the woman said that one Dr Siddharth working with Kaili Hospital befriended her on the social media website and she visited Basti to meet him on August 10.

She alleged that the doctor took her to a room in the hostel of Kaili Hospital and forcibly made sexual relations. She alleged that the doctor then called up his two other friends, and they also raped her.

"When she visited the hospital, the doctor took her to his hostel room where he and his two colleagues, who are also doctors, raped her," the police said quoting the complainant.

The woman, who is a teacher in a private educational institute, reached Lucknow from Basti and informed the police about the incident on September 27, the police said.

Later as the crime was committed in Basti, the Lucknow police transferred the matter after which a case was registered and investigation taken up, the police said on Tuesday, adding that the doctor was arrested from the hospital.

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