Eve teasing, stalking, and avenue molestation stay a number of the most overlooked crimes in the nation. Over time, it has been reported and uncovered how such crimes have taken the lives of many harmless ladies and girls. In one such incident, a minor girl from Uttar Pradesh’s Ambedkarnagar misplaced her life following an accident involving avenue molestation on September 15. A video associated to the incident was broadly circulated on social media.
In the mentioned video, boys may be seen on their bikes following two ladies on cycle, as quickly as they strategy the girl, certainly one of them snatches the dupatta of the schoolgirl. She stumbled and fell off her cycle. By then, one other motorcyclist had run over her. Unfortunately, the girl succumbed to her accidents.
Following the accident the Uttar Pradesh police launched an encounter and nabbed the accused, a few of them have even sustained bullet accidents. The Chief Minister of the state, Yogi Adityanath has additionally mentioned, “Those involved in such activities should get ready to meet Yamraj”.
The accused males concerned in this case have been recognized as Shahbaz son of Jamaal, from Harsamhar village, Arbaz son of Jamaal, additionally from Harsamhar village, and Mohammed Faisal from Aaribpur village. Shahbaz and Arbaz snatched her dupatta whereas Faizal was the one who drove his bicycle over the minor.
The minor sufferer has been recognized as Nancy Verma, a scholar of sophistication 12 and her father as Sabhajeet Verma. They belong to the backward Kurmi jati.
Sabhajeet has been sharing issues about Nancy in media interactions, and what led to the horrific loss of life of the minor.
Organiser referred to as him on September 19, as he was very unhappy it was troublesome for him to speak about his beloved daughter once more and once more. He mentioned the police had arrested solely three accused, and certainly one of them remains to be strolling free. His identify is Mohammad Munnu, son of Salim, he added.
He mentioned, she was simply 17 and needed to serve society by changing into a physician, he was devastated after seeing her useless physique. Nancy was the third of his 4 youngsters and lived with him. She was a brilliant scholar, he added.
When requested concerning the stalkers, he mentioned, “They (The Muslims) are in majority in this area”. He has even contacted the constables guarding the workplace of the BSP (Bahujan Samaj Party) in the area to cease the eve teasers however to no avail. The sufferer has shared concerning the stalkers to her elder sister, he added.
The sufferer’s sister and her cousin who accompanied her that day from college informed the media that, the accused weren’t solely harassing the minor however different ladies of the varsity as nicely. They used to observe her to her home and the opposite ladies finding out on the college.
Following the accident, Sabhajeet filed an FIR (quantity–177) towards the perpetrators on the Hanswar police station on September 16.
In his grievance to the police, Sabhajeet mentioned, that Nancy, who was 17, was coming back from her college when three eve-teasers pulled her dupatta. Nancy, who was on a cycle, misplaced her steadiness and fell. Another man on a motorbike ran over Nancy’s head. Her jaw broke and her cranium sustained grievous accidents, main to her prompt loss of life. Onlookers took her to Areeba Memorial Hospital in Hirapur village, the place medical doctors pronounced her useless.
Based on the FIR, the police booked all three accused beneath IPC sections 354 (assault by legal power), 279 (driving a car in a negligent method) and 304-A (inflicting loss of life by negligence). Additionally, sections for the homicide 302 and sections of the POCSO Act had been added in the case.
The arrest was made the identical day the FIR was lodged, and the accused had been recognized primarily based on the CCTV footage of the incident.
Police mentioned the trio tried an escape, throughout which Faisal allegedly fired on the officers. In the following confrontation, Shahbaz and Faisal sustained gunshot accidents to their legs, whereas Faisal fractured his leg. The Ambedkarnagar police launched a video footage the place the accused had been seen limping after being shot.
Notably, following the case, Hanswar police station SHO Ritesh Kumar has been suspended and a brand new police station in-charge has been posted.
थाना हँसवर क्षेत्रांतर्गत एक स्कूली छात्रा की मृत्यु में नामजद तीनों अभियुक्तों को मेडिकल परीक्षण ले जाते समय अभियुक्तों द्वारा रास्ते में मौजूद पुलिस कर्मियों से असलहा छीन कर भागने का प्रयास करने के उपरांत हुई पुलिस मुठभेड़ के संबंध में पुलिस अधीक्षक द्वारा दी गई बाइट#UPPolice pic.twitter.com/4yg8lBHzqQ
— AMBEDKARNAGAR POLICE (@ambedkarnagrpol) September 17, 2023
Readers ought to know that Hanswar is called the hotbed of crime and has given beginning to national-level criminals akin to Don Khan Mubarak, who had greater than 50 circumstances of homicide registered towards him. Many locals search inspiration from him to date.
As per a report, a neighborhood Dalit chief and BJP’s Zila Mantri Chandrika Prasad referred to as the area as “Pathaan” dominated and indicated that the dominance of crime in the Hanswar area may be traced again to the governance of the Samajwadi Party when the native regulation enforcement was “blatantly biased towards the dominant Muslim community”. He mentioned the Hanswar police’s inaction in molestation complaints confirmed that the bias continues to this present day.
Ambedkarnagar district was carved out in 1995 from Faizabad, by the then CM Mayawati citing its larger Dalit inhabitants.
Some of the circumstances reported by Organiser present the rising crime towards Dalits and different backward individuals in the area. This month we did two experiences the place a Dalit lady and her household had been compelled to convert by her already-converted brother to Islam in order to get a property share. In one other case, a Hindu lady was lured to conversion by a Muslim live-in accomplice who posed as a Hindu.
