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Woman says was raped, husband shot at in Amroha: Police deny allegations, then register case
Four criminals on two motorcycles allegedly took a couple on gunpoint and raped the woman in front of her husband in Dhanaura area of Amroha district in Uttar Pradesh
Four criminals on two motorcycles allegedly took a couple on gunpoint and raped the woman in front of her husband in Dhanaura area of Amroha district in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday night. The woman claimed that when her husband resisted the men and tried to escape, they shot at him. Initially, police denied the allegations, however, later a case of gang-rape was registered.
Police said the victim approached superintendent of police (SP) Amroha, Vipin Tada, on Sunday afternoon after which a case was registered against four named accused -- Usman, Imamuddin, Rashid and Riyazul -- all residents of Dhanaura area -- at the Bachrayun police station.
“A case of gang-rape has been registered against four persons and two of them have been detained for interrogation,” said the SP, adding that the other two accused could not be found. He said that both the accused and the victim sides belonged to the same community and preliminary investigation revealed enmity between them.
Earlier, videos of the woman and her father narrating the couple’s ordeal to cops of the Dial 100 service had surfaced. HT is in possession of these videos.
The woman’s father said in one of the videos: “My daughter, married in Meerut, had come to my house in Dhanaura (Amroha) with her husband. They went out to get medicines and then to Chandpur to meet some relatives. While returning late in the night, they took a local train. After alighting from the train they took an e-rickshaw to reach home. Four motorcycle-borne criminals stopped them soon after they crossed Milak area. They beat up the rickshaw driver, forcing him to run away. Then they took the couple to a roadside field and where they misbehaved with the girl and shot at her husband as he tried to escape.” When specifically asked if his daughter was raped, he said yes.
He said his daughter approached some passersby for help who reported the incident at Dial 100. The police took the couple to a hospital in Dhanaura. “Later, cops from local Bachrayun police station arrived at the hospital. They did not listen to the couple and the chowki in-charge verbally abused them. Then, they were taken to the police station,” said her father in the video.
INITIAL POLICE DENIAL
Earlier on Sunday morning, describing the woman and her father’s allegations as concocted, SP Amroha had said that the police would lodge a case against the couple and the woman’s father for making false allegations. Tada had said the matter was not as it had been reported by the woman and her father and that all three (including her husband) had left their village.
“We are trying to locate them for further interrogation,” Tada had said on Sunday morning, adding that the man’s medical report did not mention any gunshot injury. He had also said that the woman’s medical examination could not be conducted late in the night and “she could not be traced since Sunday morning”.
The SP had hinted that the allegations might have something to do with a family dispute but had not elaborated on it. He had also said that the woman’s father was “booked on charges of committing rape and came out of jail after eight years”.
