Bihar: Six booked for gangrape, murder of Dalit teenager
The girl’s family said she had been abducted on Sunday by a dominant-caste man whose marriage proposal they had turned down.
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The Bihar Police has booked six persons for the gangrape and murder of a Dalit teenager, reported The Indian Express on Thursday. This came after the minor girl’s mutilated body was found near a pond in a village in the Muzaffarpur district on Tuesday morning.
The incident has sparked a political controversy in Bihar with the Opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal and Bahujan Samaj Party demanding action against those responsible.
The police said that the girl’s parents are daily wage labourers. In a complaint, the girl’s mother alleged that a man named Sanjay Rai, along with some associates, broke into their home on Sunday and kidnapped her daughter.
Despite her husband and son being at home, they were unable to stop the abduction as Rai and his associates were armed, said the mother.
The complaint, registered at a police station in Paroo village, identifies Rai as a resident of the area. He is currently absconding.
“Rai had been torturing us because we are Dalits and Rai comes from an influential Yadav family,” the mother’s complaint said.
“Five persons, including a person called Sanjay Rai, abducted my daughter on Sunday night threatening to rape her,” The Telegraph quoted the girl’s mother as saying. “We could do nothing out of fear. We found her body next morning in a pond outside our...
