Uttar Pradesh: DSP, constable get punished for raping minor girl inside police station
It becomes more challenging when one has to fight against the law keepers who turned lawbreakers. One such case took place in Yogi Adityanath led state Uttar Pradesh where a minor girl got raped by UP policemen. To seek justice she has to wait for 9 years.
A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Lucknow has sentenced a former Uttar Pradesh Policeman to life in prison in connection with rape and murder of the girl inside the police station, timesnownews.com reports said.
The convict has been identified as Ateeq Ahmad. While Deputy SP Inayat Ullah Khan has also been sentenced to five years in prison with the case.
The court has imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh on Ateeq Ahmad and Rs 50,000 on DSP, reports claimed in PTI.
"A case was registered by CBI on December 20, 2011, after the allegations of rape and murder of a teenager inside Nighasan police station premises," CBI spokesperson RK Gaur said.
The case was handed over to CBI on then UP government direction. According to the spokesman, the case was filed against the four accused. Two of the accused were acquitted by the court.
While the court has found Ateek Ahmad guilty under section 302 (murder) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence) of the Indian Penal Code. The DSP Khan found guilty under section 201.
Know what happened in 2011 with a minor girl:
In 2011, the crime was committed at the Nighasan police station in Lakhimpur Kheri district. The 14-year-old girl was found hanging inside the jail premises on June 10, 2011.
The girl’s mother alleged in FIR that her daughter was grazing buffalo when it strayed inside the police station. The mother got worried after the girl didn’t return home for long. She started searching for her daughter and later, found the body of a 14-year-old girl hanging from a dry tree at the police station.
The girl also bore injury marks on her body and it appeared that she was raped and hanged on a tree to make it look like a suicide.
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