Woman, 2 others get jail for gang rape of Dalit girl in ’16

Amroha: An additional district and sessions judge sentenced a man to life imprisonment and two others, including a woman, to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment under the SC/ ST Act for their involvement in kidnapping and gang rape of a Dalit girl in 2016 in a village in UP’s Amroha Dehat.

The court has also imposed a collective fine of Rs 1.2 lakh on the three convicts. The incident took place on the night of July 10, 2016, when the main convict, accompanied by a neighbour, visited the survivor’s house, on the pretext of asking for water. When the survivor, then 19 years old, opened the door, convicts gagged her and forced her into a car where two men were present.

The convicts then drove the girl to a sugarcane field near the Kailsa border, where they threatened her with a knife and a licensed revolver. The following morning, a woman living near the sugarcane field, took the survivor to her house and held her hostage. The convicts then raped her again at the woman’s house. The woman even applied mehndi (henna) on the survivor’s hands and arranged for her to be sold to a man from Punjab for Rs 3 lakh. Special public prosecutor Manoj Kumar Saxena said the survivor was scheduled to be sent with the man from Punjab on July 12.

However, under pressure from the convict’s family, he brought her back from the woman’s house, beat her in front of her family, and threatened to kill them all if they reported the crime.

Despite the survivor’s police complaint, no action was taken initially. Only when SP intervened, a case was registered against the five accused. They were subsequently arrested and jailed but were released on bail in 2017, after which court proceedings began. Based on evidence presented, additional district and sessions special judge (SC/ST Act) Hemlata Tyagi convicted three individuals.

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