Father of ‘gangrape victim’ run over by truck in Kanpur: Police

The father of a 13-year-old alleged gangrape sufferer was killed after a truck crushed him in Kanpur Nagar on Wednesday morning. The 45-year-old man’s household has alleged that he was “killed in a conspiracy hatched by the police and the accused”. The relations additionally sat on the freeway to protest towards “police laxity”, stated the police.
Ghatampur SHO Rajeev Kumar Singh stated a case had been lodged towards a sub-inspector posted in Kannauj district and three unidentified individuals. The sub-inspector is the daddy of two of the accused who allegedly gangraped the minor lady on Monday night.
While the sub-inspector’s sons are absconding, a 3rd accused has been arrested in reference to the alleged gangrape. All three are of their early twenties and are from the sufferer’s village.
“A case has been lodged with regard to the death of the girl’s father. It was lodged based on the complaint given by the family,” stated Kanpur Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Preetinder Singh. The case has been lodged underneath IPC sections 302 (homicide) and 120-B (legal conspiracy).

While each the sons of the sub-inspector are absconding, a 3rd accused has been arrested in reference to the alleged gangrape. All the three accused are of their early twenties and are from the sufferer’s village.
According to DIG Singh, following the alleged gangrape the lady and her father had gone to a Community Health Centre, the place they have been ready for the paperwork and different formalities to recover from.
“A medical examination of the girl was conducted at the Kanshiram hospital. Another test was awaited, and the health centre was a transit point for them as the girl was supposed to be referred from there. The accident happened this morning and the father died while undergoing treatment,” stated the DIG.

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“We have lodged a case into the accident as well and our teams are working to crack both the cases very soon,” Singh added.
The lady’s grandfather advised reporters, “They [the accused] picked up my granddaughter and raped her. My son was in Ghatampur, and policemen got him killed.”
The lady’s aunt additionally accused inaction and apathy on a part of the police and the district administration. “They raped her and bribed the doctors to forge the medical examination reports… How could this happen to my brother in the presence of the police and the administration? He was murdered. What was the administration doing… This has all been done by the administration.”
The DIG stated the household’s allegations can be probed and police would quickly reveal the small print of the case. Singh stated prima facie the person’s dying appears unintentional. “We have questioned several people near the accident spot. According to eyewitnesses, the father met with the accident while crossing the road. It does not seem like a case of a vehicle intentionally hitting him. We have detained a suspected truck driver and police officers are questioning him,” the police officer added.

A case of alleged gangrape has been lodged underneath IPC sections 376 D-A (punishment for gangrape on girl underneath 16 years of age), 504 (Intentional insult with intent to impress breach of the peace), 506 (legal intimidation) and underneath sections of the POCSO Act.
In the grievance lodged on Tuesday, the household stated the lady was gangraped when she was getting back from a discipline after chopping grass on Monday night. The household additionally claimed that the minor lady was threatened together with her life if she advised anybody concerning the incident. The accused additionally threatened the household and stated their father was a policeman and the police wouldn’t assist them, the household added.

“…we should know his father is a daroga [inspector]. They said the police will not help us, and if we complain, they will again rape our daughter in public,” reads the grievance.