Uttar Pradesh: Rape accused out on bail set the survivor on fire

According to sources one of these five men is the son of the village pradhan against whom the woman had lodged a rape complaint.

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As the nation is still reeling from the brutal rape and murder of the young veterinarian from Hyderabad, another chilling news comes from Unnao, Uttar Pradesh.

A 20-year-old young woman, who survived a brutal rape by 5 men in march this year was set ablaze today by the same group of men.

She was raped by the five men in March while the police could manage to arrest only three of them and two others were still on the run.

The rape accused and his friends took the woman outside her village and into the fields and doused her in petrol before setting her on fire.

She was going to Raebareli with her parents when the incident happened. The survivor has suffered 90% burns and has been shifted to a government hospital in Lucknow and is in a critical condition, police added.

She has told investigators that she was set on fire by the two accused who had raped her a year ago and are presently on bail. They were accompanied by three of their associates.

According to sources one of these five men is the son of the village pradhan against whom the woman had lodged a rape complaint.

Police have arrested all five men involved in the crime including the main accused Shivam Trivedi.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was is the State Congress in-charge has hit out at the UP government and accused it of lying about the law and order situation in the state.

While the lawmakers make emotional pleas of lynching and castration in parliament, most political parties have a dismal track record in preventing rape. In last 2 years, in Uttar Pradesh itself two of BJP’s leaders were involved in rape case of college students and one was a minor.

Its been two years since the then 17-year-old girl, a minor from Unnao filed an FIR against the BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar for raping her. The rape survivor has knocked all possible doors and offices but to no avail. The case made headlines when she along with her family tried self immolate outside UP CM Adityanath residence in 2018.

I was raped. I have been running pillar to post for the last year but no one is listening to me. I want to see all of them arrested, otherwise, I will kill myself. I had even approached the CM to no result. When we lodged an FIR, we were threatened.

So far the girl has lost most of her family in trying to fight the case. She was in the hospital under critical condition when her car was hit by a truck. The accident killed her aunts and left her and her lawyer in grave condition.

Another high profile case from UP of BJP leader Chinmayanad, where the rape survivor was instead arrested on extortion charges when she accused and released videos incriminating the MP in the case of sexual harassment and sex under coercion. The rape survivor is in jail while the accused Chinmayanand is under hospital care claiming ill health.

The lack of seriousness of sexual violence cases and complicity of the political class in the act completely defy the emotional outpourings in the parliament. Maybe the political parties should clean their own parties and punish the accused in cases of sexual assaults before giving calls for lynching and castration.

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