Allow the victims to publicly shoot the accused, demands Noida family

BULANDSHAHR: The government should allow the men who gangraped a 13-year-old girl and her mother in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr to be shot in public by the victims,

BULANDSHAHR: The government should allow the men who gangraped a 13-year-old girl and her mother in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr to be shot in public by the victims, the family demanded on Monday.

HT Image

The 13-year-old’s uncle said the family will never come out of the trauma of the rape but an “example” must be set to avoid such incidents.

The family’s car was waylaid early on Saturday morning on the Delhi-Kanpur highway by a gang, who tied the male members and raped the mother-daughter duo for three hours, before fleeing with cash and valuables.

The uncle alleged a police van drove past the crime scene without intervening, hours before the family was finally rescued.

“Only we can understand how it feels when a woman and her daughter get beaten and raped in front of your eyes. I would request the government and judiciary to allow our women to shoot the culprit in public,” said the uncle.

The uncle said when they called the police helpline 100, the number was busy at first and then no one picked up for a long time. They then contacted a relative in Noida and after some time, the local police station called on their phone.

But then, the officer on the other side of the line repeatedly asked questions instead of rescuing the family.

“Senior officials were sensitive to our plight and they were quite helpful. Some have even promised ‘strict and exemplary’ action against the accused.”

The uncle alleged that one of the suspended police officers — senior superintendent of police Vaibhav Krishna — had immediately arrived at the spot but had to be “sacrificed”. “We are partially satisfied with UP police action till now,” he said.

The family said the girl has high fever and her mother is in a state of shock.