BAREILLY: In a case regarding a 35-year-old woman, who was allegedly gang-raped by five men and later burnt alive in the 'yagyashala' of a temple near her house in UP’s
Sambhal district early on Saturday, police have now found that all the accused were her relatives.
“During the investigation, it was revealed that one of the accused, Mahaveer, is a distant cousin of the victim’s husband, while the other four are also relatives. We are conducting raids at all their relatives’ houses but the accused are yet to be nabbed,” said inspector Varun Kumar, SHO of Rajpura police station in Sambhal, who is also the investigating officer.
Meanwhile, additional director general of police (
Bareilly) Prem Prakash visited the crime scene on Sunday and took stock of the situation.
“We have checked the call details of the victim’s phone and also cross-checked with the control room of Dial 100 in Lucknow. No call to police on Dial 100 was made by the woman before she was killed. It may be possible that she would have tried but due to congestion, her call was not completed. Besides, forensic tests are being conducted to ascertain if she was raped before she was set ablaze. Very soon, all the culprits will be under arrest,” the ADG said.
The ghastly crime was committed in a village under Rajpura police station in the early hours of Saturday. Police said that the victim was sleeping when the attackers barged into her house and brutalized her. Later, they dragged her to a nearby temple and burnt her alive in the yagyashala.
An FIR under IPC’s sections 376D (gang rape), 302 (murder), 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence), 147 (punishment for rioting), 148 (rioting, armed with deadly weapon) and 149 (every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object) was lodged against five accused, identified as Aram Singh, Mahaveer, Charan Singh, Gullu and Kumarpal.
The yagyashala where the woman was burnt alive in a Sambhal temple early on Saturday.
