Brutal gangrapes continue in Haryana, with three such instances reported in three days – barely a month after the rape and murder of a six-year-old in the state.
Two cases of rape and murder were reported over the last weekend.
A 15-year-old girl was brutally raped and killed in Jind. Her body was found near a canal in Budhakhera village of Jind’s Safidon town on Friday night.
In Panipat, an 11-year-old was allegedly killed and then raped by two men on Sunday. In Faridabad, a 22-year-old girl was allegedly gangraped in a moving car by four men on Saturday.
In the gangrape-cum-murder in Jind, the mutilated body a 15-year-old girl, with her private parts mutilated and liver ruptured, was found on Friday. The girl, identified as a resident of Kurukshetra, had been missing since January 9. Doctors who conducted the medical examination of the 15-year-old victim’s body revealed that a blunt and hard object was inserted into her private parts.
The doctors also said that her lungs were badly damaged, indicating that somebody sat on her chest. Traces of water were also found inside the body, indicating drowning. “The body had many injury marks, private parts were mutilated and there were lot of internal injuries. Signs of sexual assault are visible and looks like 3-4 people were responsible, a hard & blunt thing was inserted inside her, signs of drowning also found,” said media reports quoting Dr SK Dattarwal of PGI Rohtak.
The 15-year-old girl had been missing since Tuesday. She left home to attend tuition classes, but never returned. Her body was found near a canal at Budha Khera village in Jind district’s Safidon town on Saturday, the police said.
It said the girl’s body was found with 19 severe injuries and signs of ‘unspeakable torture’. “The body had many injury marks, the private parts were mutilated and there were lot of internal injuries. Signs of sexual assault are visible and looks like three-four people were responsible, a hard and blunt thing was inserted inside her, signs of drowning also found,” SK Dattarwal, a doctor at PGI Rohtak was quoted as saying by NDTV.
According to a Hindustan Times report, the police have detained six people from the victim’s native village of Jhansa in Kurukshetra district. The main accused is a Class XII student who lives in the victim’s neighbourhood. The police, however, is trying to verify his age, the report added.
Two special investigation teams (SITs) under DSP-rank officers have been constituted to probe the incident, the Jind police said.
In Panipat, an 11-year-old girl studying in Class 7 was killed and then gangraped. The police said that the accused burnt the victim’s clothes to destroy evidence. The girl was reportedly abducted on Saturday when she went to throw garbage in the dumpyard. She was reportedly taken to the home of one of the two accused.
Rahul Sharma, superintendent of police, Panipat, told news agency PTI over the phone that two men who lived in her neighbourhood were arrested on Sunday for the crime.
On Sunday in Faridabad, a 22-year-old woman was allegedly abducted and gangraped by four men in a moving car. The girl was returning home from work when she was dragged inside a car and was allegedly gangraped. She was dropped near Ballabhgarh after 2 hours.
“The four accused have not been arrested yet, we are examining the CCTV footage,” said Pooja Dabla, SIT head in the Faridabad gangrape case.
Former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has attacked Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, saying there was a complete breakdown of law and order in the state.
Former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Sunday said there was a complete breakdown of law and order in the state. Hooda said the BJP government had failed to put a check on the rising crime graph.
Demanding exemplary punishment for the culprits, he said, “This government has failed on all fronts. The law and order situation has completely broken down. Children are neither safe in schools nor in their homes. Such heinous crimes are increasing, but the government seems to be in slumber.”
The incidents come close on the heels of another incident last month, in which a six-year-old girl was violently raped and killed in Uklana area in Haryana’s Hisar district.
The brutal rape of the six-year-old, and the recent savage incidents, were stark reminders of the 16 December 2012 incident, in which a girl was raped by a group of men in a moving bus and a rod was inserted into her body. She died in a hospital 13 days later.