CM Yogi Adityanath visits gang-rape survivor who was made to drink acid, assures speedy justice
The police have arrested accused Bhondu Singh and Guddu Singh from Unchahar village of Uttar Pradesh's Raebareli district.
In Short
- Adityanath Yogi visited a gang-rape and acid-attack survivor at a hospital
- The chief minister also assured speedy justice to the victim.
- Police have arrested two accused from Unchahar village of Raebareli district.
Newly-appointed Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath today visited the trauma centre of a hospital where a gang-rape and acid-attack survivor was being treated. The chief minister assured speedy justice to the victim. He also announced Rs 1 lakh assistance for the woman.
Earlier, Railway DG said that Railway Protection Force's (RPF) head constable Babulal, constables Ashok Kumar, Anil, Maninder Yadav were suspended for laxity in dealing with the incident.
The police have arrested accused Bhondu Singh and Guddu Singh from Unchahar village of Uttar Pradesh's Raebareli district.
The shocking incident took place at around 10.30 am on Thursday. A 45-year-old woman was allegedly forced to drink acid in a moving train. However, her ordeal did not end there, moments later women constables from the Uttar Pradesh Police took selfies with the victim which later went viral.
A Satish Ganesh, IG (Lucknow Zone), termed the three constables "insensitive" and promised immediate action against them. Women Welfare Minister Rita Bahuguna Joshi also visited the victim and assured all help to her.
A probe was ordered into the conduct of three lady constables. According to police officials, the shocking incident came to light when the woman got off the Allahabad-Lucknow Ganga Gomti Express at Charbagh station here and gave a written complaint to the government railway police.
She had written it being unable to speak, they said. As per the complaint, the alleged victim said that two persons forced her to drink acid. This was allegedly the fourth attack on the woman.
In 2012, she was allegedly attacked with a knife, while in 2013 she was attacked with acid, police sources said.
Two men had allegedly gang-raped and attacked her with acid over a property dispute in her home at Unchahar (Raebareli) in 2009, 100 kilometres from Lucknow, they added.
The woman works with a cafe run by acid attack survivors in Lucknow and had gone home on March 10 as her daughter was taking class 10 examinations, police sources said. The victim told the cops that she was returning yesterday when the incident took place.
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