Uttar Pradesh does not want to compete with other states in the low ratio of rapes. It wants to set the benchmark for itself in the category of most horrific rape incidents. The recent incidents in the Hindi heartland state narrate the same story.
Uttar Pradesh has a major role to play in Indian democracy. Many political experts claim that the one who conquers Uttar Pradesh, rules the country. But the law and order situation in Uttar Pradesh has been a concerning issue for a long time now. Though, these issues hardly find any coverage on national television, except when it is for the ranks of Vikas Dubey. However, even in Dubeyâs coverage, the television anchors were more inclined to praise the Uttar Pradesh police and state government for killing a monster they themselves had created. Uttar Pradesh gets a Prime Time coverage when thereâs a groundbreaking ceremony in Ayodhya. But there is no noise when 2 teenage girls are brutally raped in Lakhimpur Kheri district within 10 days and their bodies are found dumped somewhere.
Uttar Pradesh does not want to compete with other states in the low ratio of rapes. It wants to set the benchmark for itself in the category of most horrific rape incidents. The recent incidents in the Hindi heartland state narrate the same story.
The Uttar Pradesh Police confirmed on Aug 25 that a 17-year-old girl, whose mutilated body was found near a village in Uttar Pradeshâs Lakhimpur Kheri district on Tuesday, was also raped.
The victim appeared to have been killed with a sharp weapon and she had suffered injuries to the neck, the police had said earlier.
The girl left home on Monday to visit a neighbouring town to fill up a scholarship form, according to her relatives. The family, however, reported to the police after she didnât return.
âI really donât know what to say or whom to suspect. She left around 8.30 AM on Monday. We do not suspect anyone,â her uncle told the reporters.
In the past 10 days, this is the second case of rape and murder of a teenager in the Lakhimpur Kheri district.
Earlier, a 13-year-old girl was raped and killed and her body found. Her father claimed that she had been strangled, her eyes were gouged out and her tongue cut. The girlâs body was found in the fields of one of the accused. The post-mortem report does not show her eyes were gouged out or tongue cut, the UP Police said. Police also added that the autopsy report mentioned rape and strangulation.
âWe went looking for her everywhere. Found her in the sugarcane field. Her eyes had been gouged out. Her tongue was cut and strangled with a dupatta,â her father said.
In another horrific incident, two men allegedly raped a teenager and then singed her body with cigarette butts in eastern Uttar Pradeshâs Gorakhpur district on 14 Aug. Gorakhpur, incidentally, happens to be the home turf of UP CM Yogi Adityanath. The girlâs parents, who are brick kiln workers, found her body the next day. The police said a case has been registered against two men, who have been arrested and sent to jail.
The mother of the girl, in a written complaint to the police, has said the girl went missing from their home at around 8 pm when she had gone to a hand pump in the village to collect water. the family kept searching for her the girl and found her the next morning at 5 AM.
How in a state of law, a girl going to submit scholarship form or going to a hand pump to fetch water, can be abducted by some sexually frustrated men, who not only rape minor girls mercilessly but kill them in an inhuman display of violence?
The Ram Rajya, in its core, means equal, inclusive society.
Though, when a girl who goes to submit a scholarship form gets raped, itâs a blatant display of discrimination and exclusion towards women. Whether these teenagers, who have succumbed to the misdeeds of some vultures, were just an object for the perpetrators to unleash unprecedented violence against them? Why are these men so blatantly fearless while committing these heinous crimes? Whatâs the Uttar Pradesh government doing?
Mahant Ji needs to introspect his Ram Rajya. It would be wise for him to actually stop these violations of law rather than voting himself the number one Chief Minister on random polls of national TV channels.
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